Highlights on day six of the Commonwealth Games

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Highlights on day six of the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday (times GMT):

Britain's Tom Daley dives during a team training session ahead of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia, April 3, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray

**0255New Zealand

women's sevens name replacements**

Illness forced Ruby Tui (mumps) and Caleb Clarke (appendicitis) to be withdrawn from New Zealand women’s rugby sevens team. Alena Saili, 19, will replace Tui in the playing group and 17-year-old Risi Pouri-Lane was confirmed as the travelling reserve.

Swimming - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Women's 400m Freestyle - Heats - Optus Aquatic Centre - Gold Coast, Australia - April 10, 2018. Ariarne Titmus of Australia competes. REUTERS/David Gray

0210 England's daley out of 10M individual

World champion diver Tom Daley will not defend his Commonwealth individual 10-metre title due to a hip injury.

Team England confirmed he would still compete with fellow Olympic bronze medallist Dan Goodfellow in Friday’s synchronised 10m platform event.

“I am truly devastated not to be competing in the individual event. I have been training so hard for the Commonwealth Games, so this is a real disappointment for me,” the 23-year-old said in a statement.

0130 Cameroon's tsoye fails medical ,weigh-in procedure

Cameroon boxer Christian Tsoye has been withdrawn from the 91kg division quarter-finals for failing the medical and weigh-in procedure. New Zealand’s David Nyika, a gold medallist at Glasgow, is now guaranteed at least a bronze.

Swimming - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Men's 50m Freestyle - Heats - Optus Aquatic Centre - Gold Coast, Australia - April 9, 2018. Benjamin Proud (in red cap) of England dives into the water with fellow competitors during heat 8 of the men's 50m freestyle competition. REUTERS/David Gray

0100 Titmus qualifies fastest for 400 meters freestyle

The morning after winning the women’s 800 freestyle gold, Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, nicknamed ‘The Terminator’, qualified fastest for the 400 final on Wednesday.

“After the 800m last night I was pretty excited, but I had to calm myself down and calm the emotions because it’s my main event today,” said the 17-year-old. “I didn’t want to ruin it by getting overexcited. I just have to hold it together for one more day and then I can relax.”

0030 Amos tops 800 metres qualifying

Botswanan Nijel Amos topped qualifying for the 800 metres final with a time of one minute 45.12 seconds, ahead of Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal and England’s Kyle Langford at Carrara Stadium.

**1100 Day six gets under way **

Day six of the Games kicks off on a sunny morning with badminton preliminaries, shooting, lawn bowls and table tennis, with a forecast of 29 degrees Celsius. Australia’s 400m freesyle champion Mack Horton will highlight the pool when he goes for gold in the 1,500m in the evening session, while at the athletics at Carrara Stadium Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson eases into the 200m sprint heats. There will also be medals in the men’s decathlon, road cycling and the shooting.

(REUTERS)