2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 1 Ladies’s 4×100 Free Relay Evaluation

2026 Commonwealth Games

WOMEN’S 4×100 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL

• World Record – 3:27.96, Australia, 2023
• Commonwealth Record – 3:27.96, Australia, 2023
• Commonwealth Games Record – 3:30.05, Australia, 2018
• 2022 Champion – Australia, 3:30.64

GOLD – Australia, 3:31.40
SILVER – England, 3:35.66
BRONZE – South Africa, 3:38.67 *African Record*

Leadoff Legs

Meg Harris was the one leadoff leg underneath 54 seconds, as she led the sector by over a second. That is round half a second off her lifetime better of 52.56 and 4 tenths off her season better of 52.66, however was sufficient to present Australia a snug lead heading into the second leg.

Theodora Taylor shaved 0.06 seconds off her Welsh document as she touched in 54.14, going out half a second quicker than her earlier finest. Evelyn Davies swam her second-fastest swim ever with a 54.32 for third general, simply off the 53.99 lifetime finest she posted on the Aquatics GB Championships in April.

Aimee Canny was two tenths off her lifetime better of 54.27 from this April in 54.46, simply forward of fellow NCAA swimmer Eva Okaro‘s 54.50 for England.

Grace Davison was eight tenths off her Irish document of 54.45 for Northern Ireland, whereas Kyra Rabess‘ 57.87 for the Cayman Islands ended up proving key for them to put seventh.

Rolling Splits

Australia had the three quickest flying splits within the subject, with all three between 52.64 and 52.88. Shayna Jack break up 52.64 on the second leg, Alex Perkins then swam her first sub-53 break up with a 52.88, earlier than Mollie O’Callaghan cruised dwelling in 52.81.

O’Callaghan break up 25.44/27.37, closing slower than she sometimes does and splitting half a second slower than her flat-start season better of 52.33. With a lead of a number of seconds by the ultimate 50 this may occasionally have been merely resulting from having nobody to race, however along with her recently-announced again damage she could also be one to regulate.

England have been the one different nation to get a sub-54 second break up, and so they obtained three of them. Freya Colbert was 53.41, 1 / 4 of a second slower than the 53.16 she break up in February however over half a second quicker than her 54.02 flat begin finest. Leah Schlosshan swam her first sub-54 break up, with Freya Anderson anchoring in 53.78.

South Africa have been indebted to Olivia Nel‘s 54.29 anchor which secured them bronze, but just as important was Rebecca Meder‘s 54.46 second leg. Katie Shanahan, fresh off a silver medal in the 200 back, had Scotland’s quickest break up at 54.65 whereas Emma Wood was a little bit slower than her 54.61 flat begin finest with a 54.84.

Wales obtained a 54.93 from Bex Sutton, who had them in third by way of her leg, however Sophie Davies‘ 55.57 couldn’t fairly maintain off Scotland and South Africa. Danielle Hill was sub-55 on the anchor leg for Northern Ireland.

Guernsey had all their swimmers underneath 60 seconds, however the Cayman Islands’ Riley Watson simply held onto seventh on the contact, with their entrance half proving key as they beat the Channel Island by simply 0.03 seconds. That was an enormous swing from the 2025 Island Games (SCM), the place Guernsey took gold in 3:48.73 and the Cayman Islands did not make it out of the heats.