Angie Ballard wins gold leaving Kurt Fearnley feeling like a winner

By Malcolm Knox
Updated August 2 2014 - 1:18am, first published 12:42am

Australia only won one gold medal on Thursday in Glasgow. It went to para-athlete Angie Ballard in the T54 1500m at Hampden Park - and it had a postscript. Ballard waited out on the track to watch the next race, in which her friend of two decades, Kurt Fearnley, was competing.

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