England's Bethy Woodward has admitted that all the hours of hard work training were to thank for her medal success at the Commonwealth Games.

The 21-year-old won silver in the women's Para-sport long jump last weekend, narrowly missing out to Australia's Jodi Elkington at Hampden Park.

"I am delighted to have won a silver medal and it's a nice reward for all the effort I've put into training for the long jump over the last six months," Woodward, who was competing at her second Games, is quoted as saying by the Watford Observer.

"Competing in Scotland was like competing at a home Games, we had great support. It was very different to my first Commonwealth Games because when I competed in Delhi I was only 17 and at that time Para-sport wasn't as popular as it is now.

"So it was great to have a bigger crowd to perform in front of and it really helps you. It was a really fantastic experience and the crowd were absolutely unbelievable. I was really happy to get England's first [athletics] medal at the Games and it really got the ball rolling."

Johanna Benson secured bronze in the event to win Namibia's first medal of Glasgow 2014.