And Kenya’s Mary Moraa was an exuberant gatecrasher of the home countries party in a coruscating women’s 800 metres final which saw England’s Keely Hodgkinson add Commonwealth silver to those she already has at Olympic and world level, and Scotland’s 1500m specialist Laura Muir earn bronze by one thousandth of a second.

Kiplimo, who had previously won the men’s 10,000m title, matched the feat achieved by his fellow countryman Joshua Cheptegei at the 2018 Gold Coast Games as he added 5,000m gold after a hugely competitive finale which saw him move outside to challenge the two Kenyan leaders around the final bend.

He, Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop ran shoulder-to-shoulder down the home straight, all hellbent on victory, before the 21-year-old in the yellow shirt pulled ahead to win in 13min 08.08sec.

Kimeli, who missed an Olympic medal by one place last summer, took silver in 13:08.19, with his team-mate Krop earning bronze in 13:08.48.

Long after the main field had finished, the stadium rose in uproarious support for the runner who required to run a further lap - Rosefelo Siosi of the Solomon Islands, who finished in 17:26.93, to tumultuous applause.

Class won out in the women’s 200m as Thompson-Herah, Jamaica’s 100 and 200m winner at the last two Olympics, added gold at the longer distance to the 100m she had won earlier in the week to secure her first individual Commonwealth medal.

Despite the cold conditions, and at the tail end of a season where her fitness has not been at its peak, the Jamaican had enough to win in a Games record of 22.02sec.

Nigeria’s Favour Ofili took silver in 22.51, with bronze going to the Namibian athlete who followed Thompson-Herah home in the Olympic 200m final, Christine Mboma, who clocked 22.80.

Moraa had run the first 200m of the women's 800m at a madcap pace before slowing dramatically, but she accelerated in almost jaunty fashion to pass Hodgkinson, who appeared to have lined herself up for the title by tracking Jamaica’s Natoya Goule around the final bend and moving past on the outside.

Moraa had golden ideas of her own, while Muir, ever competitive, was pushing hard too.

The four women hit the straight and gold seemed anybody’s.

Hodgkinson found the lead, but Moraa was arriving even faster, clocking 1min 57.07sec, with the English runner clocking 1:57.40.

Muir, throwing herself desperately at the line, clocked 1:57.87 to deny Goule, who clocked 1:57.88.

England’s Zharnel Hughes gave it everything in the men’s 200m final but could not match the electric form of Trinidad and Tobago’s world indoor 400m champion Jereem Richards, who clocked a Games record of 19.80sec.

On a cold night, that was a huge effort. 

Hughes kept his form well to take silver in 20.12, with Ghana’s Joseph Amoah earning bronze in 20.49.

Kyron McMaster returned to the top of a major podium after successfully defending his men's 400m hurdles title in 48.93sec having moved clear of his closest rivals over the two final flights.

Silver went to Jaheel Hyde of Jamaica in 49.78, with fast-finishing Alastair Chalmers of Guernsey edging past Kenya's Wiseman Mukhobe, who clocked 50.27, to earn a first Commonwealth Games athletics medal for his home island.

"I've just made history for Guernsey!" a dazed Chalmers announced to infield presenter Iwan Thomas.

The women’s 400m hurdles looked all set to provide another Jamaican clean sweep, raising memories of last month’s women’s world 100m final.

But after the favourite, Janieve Russell, had taken gold in 54.14sec and Shiann Salmon had earned silver in 54.47, South Africa’s Zeney van der Walt arrived at high speed to beat Rushell Clayton to the bronze, clocking a personal best of 54.47.

Clayton, who had no time to respond, clocked 54.87, with England’s Jessie Knight, who was up with the leaders for the first half of the race, fifth in 55.11.

The evening drama continued to the end as Australia’s Kurtis Marschall retained his men’s pole vault title with a clearance of 5.70m before having an unsuccessful crack at 5.81m, a centimetre above the Games record set by compatriot Steve Hooker at the Melbourne 2006 Games.

England’s Adam Hague took silver on 5.55m, with compatriot Harry Coppell earning bronze on 5.50m.

A third-round effort of 74.08m won gold for Canada’s Camryn Rogers in the women’s hammer throw.

Silver went to New Zealand’s Julia Ratcliffe on 69.63m, ahead of another Canadian, Jillian Weir, who had a best of 67.35m.