Four years ago, in a converted car park in Birmingham, tears fell down Robyn Love’s cheeks and thumping music assaulted her ears.

A Commonwealth Games that started with a lost chair had ended in a missed opportunity for Scotland’s women’s wheelchair 3×3 basketball team.

A bronze medal had been lost to hosts England amid the rambunctious surroundings of Smithfield Market, and Love was trying to explain how much it hurt when her emotions took over.

Fast forward four years and the 35-year-old from Ayr was the sole survivor from that team as Scotland faced England again on Wednesday in Glasgow.

The difference this time was that it was in the gold-medal match.

Love, Lea Smith, Kayli English and Jodie Waite knew they would leave the SEC with – at worst – a slab of silver around their necks after beating Australia in the semi-final earlier in the day. And ultimately that’s what happened after an 18-10 defeat.

That they – officially at least – missed out on becoming Scotland’s first ever Commonwealth medallists in a team sport after being usurped by their men’s 3×3 pals winning bronze earlier in the day will not have concerned them in the slightest.

“I’m not crying now, but I pretty much was this morning after the semi-final,” said veteran Love, who also coaches this callow team.

“To get a Commonwealth silver with this group, and to get to coach them and see them grow… what a privilege. I feel incredibly lucky and it’s much better being in the SEC than in a car park in Birmingham, I can tell you that for free.”

Two of the men’s team are no strangers to Games pain either.

Kyle Jimenez and Ross Malcolm lost in the bronze-medal game to New Zealand in Gold Coast in 2018, and again four years later against Canada.

They were not going to let their opportunity pass a third time.

New Zealand – who had beaten them in the round robin – were the opposition again, but the Scottish-born duo – and US-raised team-mates Skylar White and Owen McCormack – kept their shape in an angst-ridden contest to win 18-16.

“We needed to keep it interesting for you guys,” White, whose father is from Kilmarnock, told fans afterwards.

He added: “Towards the end, I told the guys ‘you can be hurt tomorrow, you can feel sore tomorrow, but right now it’s time to nut up and get it done’.”

McCormack, who qualifies through his Scottish mother, said the feeling of taking bronze ranked among the “top two… and it’s not two” in his life.

He also paid tribute to Malcolm and Jimenez, who have long been passionate advocates for the sport in Scotland as well as elite performers.

And that duo spoke movingly about what this success could mean in a wider sense.

“Coming into this we all believed we could get a medal as a team, but no one else thought anything of us – we proved the world wrong today,” Jimenez said.

Malcolm added: “Every time we play on an international stage we punch above our weight. Hopefully we get the coverage and the publicity that the sport deserves.”

Amid the joy, though, there was disappointment for the wheelchair men’s team, who lost their bronze-medal match to Canada 19-9.