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The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have brought out the very best of the West Midlands and attracted more than a million visitors, wowing locals and tourists alike at the biggest sports event to be held in the UK in a decade.

The city and the region has truly embraced Birmingham 2022, whether it’s more than 500,000 West Midlands residents buying tickets – helping to make this the best-attended Commonwealth Games ever in the UK – or the 14,000 volunteers all doing their part to welcome visitors to Birmingham.

With the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in full swing, we take a look back at the final days leading up to the sport, as the Queen’s Baton Relay took centre stage, connecting with communities through the host region of the West Midlands.

The regional tour was made even more significant as it represented the Queen’s Baton returning home, as it was designed and manufactured in an innovative West Midlands collaboration that fused art, technology, and science.

Marfa Ekimova made history for England by winning their first ever gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final at the Commonwealth Games, scoring 112.300 overall.

The 17-year-old led from the start, top-scoring in the hoop and clubs. An exciting final went to the wire with Cyprus' Anna Sokolova chasing Ekimova's score until the final discipline.

Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah added Commonwealth 100m gold to her collection in a time of 10.95 seconds.

The five-time Olympic champion was clean away and immediately up on England's Daryll Neita, who ran a personal best 10.90 in the semi-finals, before ending up with bronze.

Coventry-based boxing apparel company BOXRAW have kitted out the Anguilla team participating at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. In a game-changing donation, BOXRAW stepped in to provide top-quality training and competition kit for the Anguilla team after they were nearly forced to pull out of the Games due to a lack of kit.  

In celebration of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, one of Birmingham’s leading Greek restaurants, Kouzina Greek, treated guests to a taste of Cyprus as over the weekend of 30^th – 31^st July. With Cyprus being one of the 54 Commonwealth Countries, it was the perfect opportunity for Kouzina Greek to showcase their award-winning Greek Cypriot cuisine and hospitality to thousands of visitors descending to Birmingham to watch the games.

From gymnastics to Paralympics, wheelchair basketball to 3x3 (basketball), cricket to athletics, lawn bowls to table tennis, rugby sevens to swimming, the narrative was (is) simple – DRAMA …in bucket loads!!!

In front of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, local superstars Joe Fraser claimed his third gold medal – as Alice Kinsella picked up her second (gold) at the Arena Birmingham.

West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin, the scorer of the fastest hundred in women's T20 internationals, has retired from the international game, blaming a negative team environment.

Deandra, 31, is currently playing for Barbados at the Commonwealth Games. She has been part of the international set-up since 2008.

As a nation who has suffered heartbreak after heartbreak on the international stage, Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses’ 2-1 victor over Germany and the creation of the many sheroes, as a result, after saw Chloe Kelly, for one, write her name into folklore after scoring the winner in the UEFA Euro 2022 final, bringing to an end 56 years of hurt by finally winning a major tournament.

India cruised to an eight-wicket win over fierce rivals Pakistan in their Commonwealth Games cricket match, after a record number of people bought tickets to watch the women’s T20 cricket competition at Edgbaston.

UK Athletics can confirm that 115 athletes have been selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the European Championships which will take place between 15-21 August in Munich, Germany.

As outlined in the policy, the objectives were to select a team that maximised medal success, provided opportunities for developing athletes that have potential to win medals, and provided opportunities to achieve a GB & NI vest at a major Championships.

Sporting legends, record-breakers and Olympic heroes have been announced as the first of the sporting names taking part in the latest Laureus Challenge.

Australian cricketer Steve Waugh, British Olympic legend Chris Hoy, South African rugby icon Bryan Habana and world record mountaineer Annabelle Bond will lead a group of 100 inspirational fundraisers for the Laureus Challenge 2022, presented by Sierra Space, a 100km trek through the United Arab Emirates, from 14-19 November 2022.

UK Athletics and The Great Run Company are delighted to announce that the UK Athletics 5K Road Championships will take place on Great North Run weekend on Friday 9 September 2022 at the Quayside in Newcastle.

As UK Athletics continues to review its UK Championships offering across all off-track events from the end of 2022 and 2023 onwards, the announcement of this first of its kind fixture is a key commitment in our road running calendar.

As the Queens Baton reaches its final destination, the Commonwealth Games is set to begin - with ticket sales already breaking the record set by Australia’s Gold Coast Games in 2018. Birmingham’s moment in the sun has finally arrived with the eyes of the world fixed on what will be 10 days of record-chasing, eye-popping, emotion-draining sport, the likes of which the UK’s second city has never seen before.

Birmingham 2022 has released the full schedule for the Basketball 3x3 and Wheelchair Basketball 3x3 tournament with eight men’s teams and eight women’s teams playing the running version of the game and six men’s and six women’s teams taking part in the inaugural Commonwealth Games Wheelchair Basketball 3x3 tournament.

The Hundred is returning to Edgbaston to excite crowds with another year full of world-class sport and live entertainment, and to celebrate, there’s 100 tickets hidden across the West Midlands up for grabs.

The region’s team, Birmingham Phoenix, will be back in action in this year’s competition at Edgbaston for four unmissable home fixtures.