Friday night at Tollcross was always going to be a tough act to follow, eh?

There were no podium places or rousing renditions of Flower of Scotland on Saturday night, but there was still cause for smiles among the Team Scotland swimming ranks, with more spots in finals secured.

The roar which rippled round here when Duncan Scott tapped the wall at the end of the men’s 200m individual medley final will struggle to be matched, but the loudest cheer on this night came when Angharad Evans stormed to victory in the second semi-final of the women’s 100m breaststroke.

The 23-year-old is a frightening prospect in the pool and made everyone sit up – if they weren’t already – as she cantered home to book her place in Sunday’s final with the fastest time.

That showpiece is at 19:20 BST. One hour later, Katie Shanahan will be searching for her second medal following Friday’s silver in the 200m backstroke, in the 100m backstroke final.

Shanahan missed the chance for a second chunk of metal in the last race of the night as she competed in the 4x100m mixed relay team who finished fifth, though they did set a new Scottish record.

Part of the team was, surprisingly, poster boy Scott.

He received a hero’s welcome as he returned, racing second after Evan Jones and before Evie Davies, but ultimately the field was too strong.

Earlier in the evening, Sean McCann finished eighth in the men’s 400m freestyle final, Lucy Grieve was seventh in the women’s 50m butterfly final and Matthew Ward broke the men’s 50m backstroke Scottish record on his way to seventh in that final.

Amazingly, given she is only 19, Kukundakwe is now something of a veteran at major competitions, having made history as the youngest athlete at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics when she was just 14 years old.

She subsequently took part in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and was then Uganda’s flag bearer at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

“Making history is always a big honour, especially for Uganda,” she said, looking back at her Paralympic debut in Japan.

“It was a huge deal when we went back home and it kind of opened up the world of para-sport to Ugandan people, and it made big changes in terms of the support that para-sport gets from government.”

Kukundakwe, who was born with no lower right arm, will compete in the 100m freestyle S9 and 100m breaststroke SB8 categories.

In para-swimming, the letter S is used to denote freestyle and SB breaststroke, while the numbers 1-10 are used for athletes with a limb impairment. The lower the number, the more severe the impairment.

The teenager readily admits that her sport has changed her life.

“Swimming really built up my confidence. Before I was swimming, I would always wear long sleeves or sweaters, even when it’s a very, very hot day, to try and hide my hand.

“But ever since I started swimming, a sport which requires you to pretty much be open, I started to feel more comfortable with myself. And eventually I found out that it doesn’t really matter what I look like. It’s all about what I can do.”

Kukundakwe is hoping to secure Uganda’s first ever swimming medal, targeting the podium in the breaststroke.

And she is not alone, with Alphonse also looking to secure her first Commonwealth medal, having finished sixth in the 1500m T54 four years ago.

This time, she will go in the same event and the 400m T54.

“I remember when I won the first medal for the [2023] World Championships in Paris (silver in the 100m T54), the mindset completely changed in Mauritius,” she explained.

“Many youngsters with disability and parents also were really inspired through what I did. My team-mates now are those who saw me on TV.”

In a sign of how far things have come, the first gold medal handed out at these Games went to a para-athlete for the first time, as England’s Mark Swan won the men’s lightweight category in the powerlifting, with Nigeria’s Roland Ezuruike taking silver.

Tahiru Haruna, a former arm wrestler who turned to powerlifting in 2017, was hoping to land Ghana’s second ever Commonwealth medal won in a para-sport but finished seventh in the heavyweight event.

Despite that personal disappointment, he agrees athletes like him have the power to inspire disabled people in Africa.

“In Ghana, I always go to schools [and] on streets teaching about sports, against stigma, trying to tell them that you can play sports.

“Back in schools in Ghana they don’t allow [the] physically challenged to partake in sports, so we try to teach PE teachers to get them involved.

“Everything is inclusion, we don’t need to separate us.”

Briton Josh Kelly was forced to dig deep to retain his IBF light-middleweight world title, surviving a spirited late comeback from Belfast’s Caoimhin Agyarko to win a narrow points decision in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Kelly looked in complete control until the complexion of the contest changed when he received a deserved sixth-round point deduction for repeated punches to the back of the head.

The 31-year-old was then bloodied by cuts across his face and a gash on his nose as Agyarko grew in confidence and began to land with increasing success.

But Kelly stood firm through the championship rounds to secure victory, with the judges scoring the contest 114-113, 115-112 and 115-112.

“That was a messy and hard fight. I didn’t get cuts from punches like this, it comes from heads and elbows. This is what it looks like when you’ve got tight skin,” Kelly said.

“I knew he [Agyarko] was go to be tricky and awkward. [He had] a good game plan. He tried to make it a good boxing match. I had to show a different side to me at the end and that is what a champions does.”

Fighting on the undercard of Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight comeback against Kristian Prenga, Sunderland’s Kelly claimed his 21st professional victory.

Agyarko, 29, had hoped to become Ireland’s first black world champion. Instead, despite a brave second-half comeback, he suffered the first defeat of his professional career in his 30th contest.

Also on the card, WBO super-middleweight champion Hamzah Sheeraz laboured to an underwhelming points win over Simon Zachenhuber.

The 27-year-old Briton was far from his best and struggled to find his rhythm but was awarded a majority decision as he extended his record to 24 wins and one defeat.