Commonwealth Games 2026: Lani Pallister wins gold in swimming; Jenna Forrester wins gold in swimming, womens and mens relay win gold in swimming, Legend Ariane Titmus in tears as swimmers lead Aussie gold rush

There was an Aussie gold rush on the primary full day of competitors on the Commonwealth Games, with our swimmers dominating in Glasgow.

Lani Pallister, Jenna Forrester, and our males’s and girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay groups all tasted glory, as did para-athletes Jenna Jones and Alex Saffy.

Of the 9 gold medals on supply, Aussie athletes received six.

Pallister’s was the primary gold of the night, storming dwelling to a dominant victory within the girls’s 400m freestyle. Forrester received bronze for an Aussie 1-3.

Pallister’s celebrations have been comparatively subdued – she seemed virtually bored – and he or she advised Ariarne Titmus she wasn’t significantly pleased with the time.

“Yeah it’s good. I’m not super stoked with the time – I feel like you probably could have seen that on my face at the end,” she mentioned to Seven.

“But my first title for the week, it’s important to build and keep going and just move on from it.

“And yeah, I’m excited to keep going through.”

Only 40 minutes later, Forrester – Australia’s main hope within the race following Kaylee McKeown’s withdrawal with glandular fever – was again within the water and received gold within the girls’s 200m backstroke.

Titmus mentioned she was “in tears” as she watched Forrester pull off “one of the all-time backups I’ve ever seen”.

Jones received gold within the girls’s S13 100m freestyle, with Kirralee Hayes clinching bronze for an additional Aussie 1-3.

In the boys’s S10 100m butterfly, Alex Saffy led dwelling Col Pearse for an Aussie 1-2. It’s a reversal of the end in the identical race on the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

To shut out the evening, Australia’s 4x100m relay groups did the double in virtually an identical circumstances, beating dwelling England and South Africa in each races.

In the ladies’s race, Meg Harris smashed the opening leg, earlier than Shayna Jack, Alex Perkins and Mollie O’Callaghan all stretched the lead, finally touching in 3:31.40, greater than 4 seconds away from England.

“We knew they were the favourites, we probably expected it to be as dominant as it was, but it’s still such a wonderful sight to see Australia first, daylight second,” Giaan Rooney mentioned in commentary for Seven.

The girls have received the occasion in each Commonwealth Games since 1994, and 1986 was the final time the workforce missed the medals.

It was a lot the identical for the boys solely minutes later as Flynn Southam, Kai Taylor, Harrison Turner and Kyle Chalmers led the race from begin to end.

Rooney mentioned Chalmers’ anchor leg was significantly spectacular, and the English swimmer within the lane subsequent to him would have felt as if he was swimming uphill.

Unsurprisingly, Australia sits on high of the medal tally, over Nigeria and host nation Scotland.