Jo Pavey won a well-deserved silver in the women's 5,000m at the Commonwealth Games on Friday.

Pavey, fifth in the Olympics in Athens, made a brave bid to win gold as she took the lead with two and a half laps to go at the MCG.

The 32-year-old from Exeter still led with 250m left but eventually had to give way to Kenya's Isabella Ochichi in the sprint to the line.

"I'm just really thrilled because for three months I did no exercise after the World Championships in Helsinki because I had a weird virus,'' Pavey revealed. "I was just really fortunate to be here in the first place.

"To get a medal, I'm really pleased. I really enjoyed it, I knew it was going to be a tough race.

"I was scared late on when they were still all stacked up at the front but I just went for it. It's my first major medal and it's really nice to do that because you get so disappointed when it goes wrong.''