Day 11 - Magical McLellan Takes Siver

Major Highlight - Women's 100m Hurdles

In a desperately close finish, Sarah McLellan became Australia's latest track star, when she held on to take the silver medal in the Women's 100m hurdles. While the winner Dawn Harper (United States) cleared out from the rest of the field over the final hurdles to take gold by a tenth of a second, the following 5 runners were separated by just 2/100th's of a second. McLellan had clearly had the best of the start and led over the first few hurdles before being swamped by the field approaching the line. By the time the photo had been developed, McLellan had held on for the silver, just pipping Canadian Priscilla Lopes-Schliep who took the bronze. Both fourth and fifth were only a further hundredth of a second back, while sixth was only a further hundredth behind them. McLellan's silver is the first individual track medal for Australia since Cathy Freeman took gold in the Women's 400m back in Sydney (2000). The race turned out perfectly for the young Australian, with a blanket finish giving every girl in the event a shot at a medal - luckily Sally was able to take hers!

Gold - Dawn Harper (United States)
Silver - Sally McLellan (Australia)
Bronze - Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (Canada)

Athletics
Usain Bolt (Jamaica) kept his quest for the golden sprint double intact by qualifying fastest for tonight's' final of the Men's 200m.

Cycling
Anna Meares won Australia's first, and only medal at this year's track cycling with a silver in the Women's sprint. Meares got through to the gold medal match by defeating China's Guo Shuang in an eventful semi-final. Guo took the first race, before Meares took the second. The third match was re-run after Guo initially crashed with a lap and a half remaining. The re-run was just as exciting. Guo looked to have held off the Aussie by inches on the line, but was relegated for bumping Meares on the final lap, with Meares doing well to stay on the bike. The Aussie was no match for world champion Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) in the final, going down in straight sets. It was a double-gold for Britain on the night with Chris Hoy taking the Men's sprint, while Argentina were surprise gold medallists in the Men's Madison.

Basketball
The Opals are through to the medal rounds after a barnstorming 79-46 win over the Czech Republic. However, what looked like a tournament-ending injury to Penny Taylor will be of concern heading into their semi-final.

Water Polo
The Australian Women's Water Polo team will fight for bronze after going down 9-8 to the United States in a heartbreaking semi-final.

Hockey
The Kookaburrua's closed out their pool with a surprise 3-3 draw with Great Britain, but still did enough to finish second and advance to the medal rounds where they will face Spain in the semi-final.

Medal Tally after Day 11:

1 - China - 43-14-19 (76)
2 - USA - 26-26-27 (79)
3 - Great Britain - 16-9-8 (33)

4 - Australia - 11-12-12 (35)