Ten years ago, on the same track, Kenny brought home two Olympic golds before raking three more at the following two Games.

The 30-year-old, who had a miscarriage last year and an ectopic pregnancy this year, overcame a lack of motivation to win England’s first cycling gold at the Commonwealth Games.

“I thought it was going to be my last bike race yesterday,” said Kenny. “I just didn’t enjoy everything about it. Even before the start, I didn’t know if I could do it. (But) I came in this morning with a completely different mindset.'”

Australia’s Matthew Glaetzer defended his 1,000m time-trial title, clocking 59.505. The 29-year-old also won a gold in the team sprint last Friday.

More Australians claimed victories in the pool on Monday as Emma McKeon won the women’s 50m butterfly title, clocking 25.90s and Kyle Chalmers won the men’s 100m freestyle in 47.51s.

Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown of Australia bags the women’s 200m backstroke gold, setting a new Commonwealth Games record of 2:05.60s.

Australia also won the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay with a timing of 7:04.96s.

Singapore won their first gold medal at this year’s Games with a 3-0 victory over Malaysia in the women’s team table tennis event.

While in judo, Canada’s Christa Deguchi beat England’s Acelya Toprak in the women’s under 57kg gold medal match.