Bates was the first winner of any gold medal at this year's Games when she won the road time trial on Saturday (August 5), and she followed it with a silver in the road race yesterday.

She amassed 27 points in the first and only final of the day at the National Cycling Velodrome, leading an Australian one-two with road race champion Keira Will, who notched 19.

Scotland's Millie Thomson completed the top three with 17.

Further track cycling golds are available in the men's 3,000 metres individual pursuit, men's and women's sprint and women's 7.5 kilometres scratch race tomorrow.

Adjacent to the Velodrome, swimming action continued at the National Aquatic Centre, where England's Oscar Bilbao and Scotland's Matthew Ward won their third gold medals.

Bilbao clocked 1min 13.12sec to beat Jersey's Filip Nowacki by just 0.04 in the men's 100m breaststroke, while Ward again impressed by winning the men's 200m backstroke by 2.84sec with his time of 1:59.21.

Sienna Robinson of England added the women's 100m breaststroke gold to her 50m title in 1:10.29, staving off Wales' Theodora Taylor and Northern Ireland's Ellie McCartney, and there was a second gold for Scotland's Holly McGill too with a 2:12.06 effort to win the women's 200m backstroke by more than four seconds.

Australia's Inez Miller doubled up for the Games with women's 400m freestyle success in 4:14.97 to add to her 200m title, and her compatriot Mikayla Bird won the women's 100m butterfly in 1:00.15.

Tyler Melbourne-Smith of Wales was another to win his second gold of the Games in 3:54.19 in the men's 400m freestyle, and Zarek Wilson set the only Commonwealth Youth Games record of the day's finals at 53.70 in the men's 100m butterfly for hosts Trinidad and Tobago.

England were the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay winners in 3:33.44.

Four Commonwealth Youth Games records were beaten on a day of high-quality athletics at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.

Andrew Stone of the Cayman Islands achieved 7.70 metres on his final effort in the men's long jump to clinch the gold and Games record, while Nancy Cherop beat the previous best than more than four seconds on her way to winning the women's 1500 metres in 4:12.38, leading a Kenyan one-two with Janet Jepkoech Chepkemoi who clocked 4:14.24.

There was also a Kenyan one-two and Games record of 3:37.66 in the men's 1500m, Jospat Sang Kipkirui triumphing in a sprint with Andrew Kiptoo Alamisi by 0.46.

South Africa's Hencu Johann Lamberts dominated the men's shot put and set the other Games record of the day at 20.17 metres.

His compatriot Alicia Eli Khunou added women's discus throw gold to her shot put title from yesterday through a 49.53m effort, and another South African athlete in Daniel Tumiso Molobela triumphed in the men's F42-44 and F61-64 discus throw with 26.34m.

The day concluded with the 400 metres finals on the track.

Guyana's Tianna Springer narrowly won the women's race in 53.55, beating England's Charlotte Henrich by 0.10.

Narissa McPherson doubled Guyana's podium presence with a 54.82 run.

Nigeria's Samuel Uchenna Ogazicl took the men's gold in impressive fashion in 46.99.

There was a silver to add to Guyana's tally through Malachi Austin in 47.97, with England's Alexander Beck just beating India's Navpreet Singh for the final podium place in 48.20.

Tomorrow is set to mark the penultimate day of competition at Trinbago 2023, including the end of the swimming competition.

Australis lead on 13 golds after today's successes, followed by England with nine and Scotland with seven.

Twenty-six of the competing 71 nations and territories have medalled at the Games in the first four days.