AND to think people used to say that no good could ever come from fighting with your siblings.

Kimberley and Louise Renicks know that not to be true and now have the medals to prove it.

A childhood spent rolling about the floor of their Coatbridge home was put to good use yesterday at a packed and raucous Hall 3 at Glasgow's SECC.

Kimberley, the younger of the sisters at 26 years old, is the new Commonwealth Games champion at the women's -48kg level, her successful final bout against India's Shushila Likmabam concluding not long after 6pm making her Scotland's first gold medallist of these Games.

A spontaneous performer who likes to lead from the front, not even she was quite sure how she had won her gold medal.

"I don't actually know what I did," she said candidly. "It was just a reaction. I just felt a move and went for it."

Her big sister was never going to let her steal all the glory and within the hour Louise was following Kimberley onto the top step of the podium. The 31-year-old required greater patience before her efforts were rewarded. With just three seconds remaining in her final against England's Kelly Edwards, no points on the board and both judokas on three yellow cards apiece, the fight seemed destined to move into a sudden-death golden score period. Edwards, though, was penalised one last time and Renicks suddenly had a gold medal, too.

"It's a beautiful sport but sometimes it's about tactics and today I had to use them," said Louise.

Stephanie Inglis couldn't make it a hat-trick of golds after losing the final bout of the night to England's Nekoda David in the -57kg category but a silver medal was still a decent reward for her efforts.

The fourth female Scottish judoka did not leave empty-handed either. Connie Ramsay had to go down the repechage route to reach her bronze medal -57kg fight but then made the most of the opportunity, defeating Paule Sitcheping of Cameroon.

The men did their bit, too. Disappointment for James Millar at losing his -66kg semi-final to England's Colin Oates was soon forgotten when he defeated Zambia's Mathews Punza.

And there was another bronze for John Buchanan, the 38-year-old from Broxburn who had come out of retirement to compete at the Games at -60kg level.