BACUP club fighter Sophie Cox secured bronze in the judo when she beat Devi Brojeshori of India last night.

The 20-year-old had seen her hopes of gold dashed when she was defeated by Scot Jennie Brien, the eventual gold medal winner, in the semi-finals.

But with the crowd behind her once again, Cox got on top early with some aggressive attacks and never looked back to fulfil her medal ambition.

"It was hard to pick myself up for the bronze fight," she said.

"But nothing was going to stop me coming away with a medal."

Canada's Luce Baillargeon won the other bronze with a lightning 10-second Ippon win over Maryann Ekeaada of Nigeria.

There were also bronze medals for Lee McGrorty of Scotland in the under-73kg, Wales' Claire Scourfield in the under-63kg and high hopes for more of all colours in the other divisions.

Scotland's Graeme Randall added the Commonwealth gold to his trophy cabinet with a hard-fought victory over England's Thomas Cousins.

The 1999 world champion began aggressively against 21-year-old Thomas, twice European junior champion and runner-up at the 2000 world junior championships.

But Thomas was equal to his 27-year-old opponent until, with just under a minute and a half to go, Randall executed a perfect Ko Soto Gari foot sweep to land a golden Ippon.

Luke Preston won bronze for Wales, scoring an Ippon win over Vinod Solanki of India with a rolling Seoinage shoulder throw. It was just reward for Preston, who earlier lost to Cousins in the semi-finals.

London-based Kiwi Olympian Tim Slyfield scored a popular win over Morgan Endicott Davies of Australia to claim the other bronze.

Back in the women's Under-63 category, Olympian Karen Roberts claimed England's fourth gold of the judo competition.

The 2002 British Open champion is renowned for her groundwork and was quick to secure a submission win with an armlock on Scotland's Sarah Clark.

The final fights of night were in the men's under-90kgs, where England skipper Winston Gordon defeated Keith Morgan of Canada in the gold medal match.

The Wandsworth club fighter and current British Open champion fell behind early on when he was penalised for taking a double-handed grip on one side of his opponent's Gi and then a somewhat dubious Koka in favour of the Canadian. Although the crowd lifted the Englishman, some more controversial refereeing looked to have cost him gold through penalties.

But a late, late score with just a second left handed Gordon the Commonwealth crowd as the GMEX erupted.

Steven Withers of Wales lost out on bronze to Cameroon's Rostan Melaping, but Steven Vidler won another medal for Scotland by beating Kiwi Gareth Knight.