2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 2 Prelims Preview

2026 Commonwealth Games

After a primary day replete with information, day 2 of the 2026 Commonwealth Games doesn’t appear to be slowing down. We have 9 occasions this morning – six particular person swimming occasions, two para-swimming occasions, and one relay.

Last evening’s ladies’s 400 free gold and silver medalists return to the pool within the 200 free, Lani Pallister because the second seed and Erika Fairweather because the fourth seed. Mollie O’Callaghan, who had just lately introduced a decrease again damage which had threatened to maintain her out of the Games, is the highest seed in 1:52.86.

Freya Colbert set a British document earlier this season with a 1:54.98, then lowered it to the 1:54.34 she is entered with on the Aquatics GB Championships. She will swim subsequent to a different Freya, as Freya Anderson is the sixth seed in 1:57.00.

World document holder Cameron McEvoy will probably be in motion within the males’s 50 free, as he leads the psych sheets by over half a second with the 20.88 he clocked on the China Open in March. Fellow Australians Jamie Jack and Flynn Southam are #2 and #3 on the entry checklist, and Southam specifically will probably be one to observe after his Games document of 47.09 main off the 4×100 free relay final evening.

Josh Liendo lurks because the tenth seed and can swim two lanes over from McEvoy within the last warmth, and Arizona State’s Tolu Young is the fifth seed as he seeks Fiji’s first ever swimming last on the Games. Nigeria’s Abduljabar Adama, entered in 22.21, can also be one to be careful for. Michael Houlie, the 50 breast Games document holder, can also be entered – would possibly we see a 25 meter free document at present?

Iona Anderson leads the ladies’s 100 again in 58.60, however after including vital time within the 200 again yesterday it seems to be as if #3 seed Kylie Masse is the favourite. The Canadian gained the occasion on the 2018 Games and will probably be gunning for prime seed.

Hannah Fredericks, who positioned third within the 200 again final evening in 2:08.17, is the #2 seed and can swim subsequent to the silver medalist from that occasion. Katie Shanahan moved up one spot within the 200 again from the 2022 Games, and is the #5 seed in 1:00.03.

Matt Temple is the highest seed within the males’s 100 fly, and could have Josh Liendo subsequent to him within the last warmth this morning. The pair completed 2nd  and 1st, respectively, on the 2022 Games, with Temple tying with James Guy for silver.

There is not any Guy this time, however England’s Ed Mildred is the #3 seed in 51.02. His teammate Jacob Peters and Welsh document holder Lewis Fraser are additionally ranked within the prime eight, whereas South Africa’s Ruard van Renen is the #9 seed in 52.27, however had a implausible day yesterday with a 50 again PB of 24.56 and cut up over a second quicker than his flat-start finest within the 4×100 free relay.

Ben Armbruster is the #2 seed for Australia and has South Africa’s Chad le Clos subsequent to him. Le Clos is competing at his fifth Games, and final evening grew to become probably the most adorned male Commonwealth athlete ever as he gained his nineteenth medal within the males’s 4×100 free relay.

Home favourite Angharad Evans is the highest seed by over a second within the ladies’s 100 breast with the 1:04.96 British document she clocked in April, however Sienna Toohey has additionally set an enormous lifetime finest this season and is the #2 seed in 1:05.97.

Lara van Niekirk, the 2022 champion, is just not entered, and South Africa will probably be represented by world 200 breast bronze medalist Kaylene Corbett, Rebecca Meder, and Aimee Canny, who led off the bronze medal-winning 4×100 free relay final evening.

Ella Ramsay and Grace McCartney are the one different swimmers entered underneath 1:07, whereas Lanihei Connolly is the #5 seed for the Cook Islands in 1:07.40. Her countryman Jacob Story made the boys’s 100 breast semi-finals yesterday, inserting sixteenth.

The males’s 400 free will see Sam Short in motion for the primary time at this meet, as he leads the psych sheets by over three seconds. Defending champion Elijah Winnington is in lane 4 within the different circle seeded warmth, with 800 free Olympic champion Dan Wiffen subsequent to him in lane 3 of the penultimate warmth. James Guy, Tyler Melbourne-Smith, and Jack McMillan have medal hopes among the many Brits, whereas Scotland are represented by Sean McCann and Charlie Hutchison.

The eighth-fastest entry time is a comparatively fast 3:47.38, so the heats shouldn’t be too sleepy this morning or swimmers will discover themselves out of tonight’s last. Ian Thorpe‘s Commonwealth Games document of three:40.08 is probably going protected till at the very least tonight although, however will certainly be an goal for Short within the last.

The ladies’s S14 200 free will function defending champion Bethany Firth of Northern Ireland and returning bronze medalist Louise Fiddes, with Poppy Maskill swimming in lane 5 between the pair this morning. The prime three seeds are separated by simply 0.14 seconds, however count on this morning to be subdued with solely seven swimmers within the area and development to the ultimate assured.

The males’s S14 200 free is much more sparse with simply 5 swimmers, however with England’s Will Ellard within the area this occasion will probably be on document watch. He set a world document within the 100 free with a 50.41 on the Aquatics GB Championships and claimed his first 200 free world document in a time of 1:51.30 on the Paris Paralympics two years in the past. He was an even-faster 1:51.08 on the Para World Championships final 12 months to decrease that additional.

Wales will probably be in search of redemption within the combined 4×100 free relay after their males’s 4×100 free relay was disqualified within the heats yesterday, and may transfer via comfortably with the potential to be a medal menace tonight. Australia are entered as simply the #4 seed in 3:25.15, swum final summer time as they didn’t make it out of the heats on the World Championships.

England, Canada, and New Zealand are the highest three seeds, and the Cayman Islands will probably be in search of their third relay last in three occasions this week after making the boys’s and ladies’s 4×100 free relay finals final evening, inserting eighth and seventh respectively. They are the #8 seed right here in 3:34.61.