Host nations Scotland won eight medals in the space of five chaotic hours on Wednesday – two of the gold – to take their Commonwealth Games tally in Glasgow to 23.

Swimmers Angharad Evans and Keanna MacInnes both won an individual medal and a relay prize, and Toni Shaw also tasted success in the pool at Tollcross.

Melanie Woods roared to gold on the track at Scotstoun, before Steven MacKenzie earned a surprise bronze in the field.

And at the SEC, both the men’s 3×3 basketball team and their women’s wheelchair equivalents ended the evening on the podium.

It takes Scotland’s tally to 23 overall as the Games passes the halfway mark – nine gold and seven of both silver and bronze.

And it is the best return in a single day since nine were claimed on the last day of the Birmingham edition in 2022.

After a relatively quiet day, the first medal was claimed by the men’s 3×3 basketball team just before 17:00 BST.

A couple of hours later, three more followed in the space of five minutes.

The women’s wheelchair 3×3 basketball team took silver; Evans added her second gold – and third medal – of the Games in the 200m breaststroke; then Woods claimed gold in the women’s T54 1500m.

Shaw then joined in with bronze in the women’s S9 100m freestyle before MacInnes was edged into second place in the women’s 200m butterfly to take her second individual silver of the meet.

Around the same time, MacKenzie was leaping to long jump bronze, before the haul was completed in the pool when Evans and MacInnes teamed up with Katie Shanahan and Evie Davis to take silver in the women’s 4x100m medley.

Three more further medals are guaranteed in boxing – with fighters in semi-final action on Friday – while further prospects remain in athletics, bowls, cycling, judo and weightlifting.