Another Golden Day for Scotland

Team Scotland has revelled in another golden day, with its first-place medal tally up to 17. The host nation is guaranteed to win at least 51 medals by the conclusion of the games on Sunday. Scottish gymnast Dan Purvis claimed gold in the men's parallel bars. The 23-year-old, who had already won team silver and rings bronze, upgraded to gold on the final day of competition after being the last gymnast to perform on the apparatus.

Scotland got the better of England in a lawn bowls showdown. Pairs champions Alex Marshall and Paul Foster teamed up with David Peacock and Neil Speirs in the men's fours final at Glasgow's Kelvingrove, where they triumphed 16-8 to clinch gold for the host country. And Darren Burnett rounded off the day Kelvingrove as he defeated Canada's Ryan Bester 21-9 to win the men's singles at the Commonwealth Games. The Scots had waited eight years for a Commonwealth gold medal before Marshalland Foster won the pairs event on Monday but Burnett's victory after 19 ends means they close out Glasgow 2014 with three - their best result since 1994.

Scot Lynsey Sharp was also roared to the line by a partisan Hampden crowd, winning Commonwealth silver in the 800 metres. The 24-year-old, whose parents both represented their country at the Commonwealth Games, came to Glasgow 2014 as one of the hosts' best medal hopes in the athletics. It had looked like Sharp would miss out on the podium as late as the final bend, only to produce a surge down the home straight to beat Winnie Nanyondo to silver - Scotland's second in as many nights following Eilidh Child's second-place finish in the 400m hurdles. Sharp's achievement is made all the more remarkable by the fact that an unspecified illness had not only put her podium hopes in jeopardy, but even the chance to compete in the final.