New Delhi:
Australia won the Commonwealth Games gymnastics women's team gold on Tuesday, with England in second and Canada taking bronze.
Australia, with a total of 163.700 points, justified their status as hot favourites to record their fourth consecutive women's team gold at the Commonwealth Games having won in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
England scored 158.200, with Canada close behind on 154.750 points.
Australia fielded their top gymnasts in Delhi to prepare them for the World Championships in Rotterdam that start on October 16, using the Commonwealth Games as a convenient stop-over on the way to Holland.
England and Canada however chose not to send some of their top stars to Delhi to allow them to concentrate on the Worlds.