Sitting eleventh in the overall heptathlon ranking after six events, Ella Rush had only one more discipline to complete. Going into the concluding 800m, Rush trailed Stephenson by 208 points, with the latter sitting in tenth place. Stephenson also held the faster season’s best over the distance, having recorded 2:11 compared to Rush’s 2:14. Now officially representing Gibraltar at the Commonwealth Games, a similar time would have cemented her name in the national record books for the 800m. Gibraltar’s first appearance in the heptathlon at the Commonwealth Games concluded with an eleventh-place finish from a field of 15 athletes.