Commonwealth Games: Team England equal gold medal best after silver upgraded

Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha led Nigeria to triumph but has since been disqualified

England person matched their champion haul of 58 golden medals successful a Commonwealth Games aft it was ruled their women's 4x100m relay metallic volition beryllium upgraded.

It means England clasp the relay rubric won 4 years antecedently successful Australia.

Their tally of 58 golds equals the fig England won astatine the 2014 Games successful Glasgow.

England's squad of Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Bianca Williams and Daryll Neita ran 42.41 seconds to decorativeness down a Nigeria quartet that included Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha who has since been disqualified.

Ashleigh Nelson ran successful the semi-final for England and volition besides person a golden medal.

The Commonwealth Games Federation confirmed Nwokocha's idiosyncratic and squad results astatine Birmingham 2022 had been expunged, and that England would beryllium promoted to relay gold, with Jamaica taking metallic and Australia the bronze.

Williams said of the outcome: "The quality is precise bittersweet, particularly arsenic the Games were astatine location successful beforehand of friends and family. We came successful arsenic reigning champions and it would person been large to get a golden medal astatine home.

"[But] precise blessed to beryllium treble Commonwealth Games golden medallists successful the relay."

An unchanged overall medal haul of 176 is Team England's highest astatine a Games.