2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 2 Blended 4×100 Free Relay Evaluation

2026 Commonwealth Games

MIXED 4×100 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL

• World Record: 3:18.48 – USA (Alexy, Sammon, Douglass, Huske), 2025
• Commonwealth Record: 3:18.83 – Australia (Cartwright, Chalmers, Jack, O’Callaghan), 2023
• Commonwealth Games Record: 3:21.18 – Australia (Yang, Chalmers, O’Callaghan, McKeon), 2022
• 2022 Champion: Australia (Yang, Chalmers, O’Callaghan, McKeon) – 3:21.18

GOLD – Australia, 3:19.36, *Commonwealth Games Record*
SILVER – England, 3:23.91
BRONZE – Wales, 3:24.33

Leadoff Legs

Flynn Southam was electrical as soon as once more for Australia, pulling away from Matt Richards on the second 50 to the touch in 47.29 for the second-fastest swim of his profession, two tenths off the 47.09 he posted on the leadoff of the lads’s occasion yesterday. He could also be changing into the favourite for the person 100 free forward of teammate Kyle Chalmers.

Matt Richards was proper on his season greatest for Wales with a 47.62, the seventh-fastest swim of his profession, to present them improbable basis for his or her eventual bronze medal.

Jacob Mills was two tenths slower than his 48.02 from final evening, however was the third-fastest leadoff forward of New Zealand’s Carter Swift, who was 0.01 seconds off his lifetime greatest in 48.67.

Tendo Kaumi was simply off his nationwide document of 51.14 from the leadoff this morning, however swam his second-fastest time ever for Uganda. James Allison notched his third sub-50 swim of the Games for the Cayman Islands.

Rolling Splits (Men)

Kyle Chalmers had the quickest rolling cut up as soon as once more, however was just a few tenths slower than his 46.93 from final evening. He was 47.62 for Australia 0.04 seconds sooner than Scotland’s Duncan Scott, who was additionally slightly slower than he had been final evening with a 47.48.

Jacob Whittle was half a second off the 47.70 he anchored in final evening, with Gabe Shepherd wanting like he could also be a stronger choice going ahead after he cut up 47.73 within the males’s relay yesterday and set a brand new flat-start better of 48.30 on the leadoff this morning.

Cameron Gray was 48.33 for New Zealand, conserving them nicely within the medal hunt at midway. Wales’ Dan Jones went out with Kyle Chalmers in a 22.84 opening 50, however paid for it with a 26.33 second 50 to separate 49.17.

Rolling Splits (Women)

Meg Harris and Shayna Jack had the quickest splits of the day for Australia, Jack posting a 52.42 earlier than handing off to Harris who anchored in a large 52.03. Jack was two tenths sooner than her 52.64 cut up on the ladies’s relay yesterday, whereas Harris was a second sooner than her 53.07 leadoff.

However the largest cut up of the lot got here from 17-year-old Welsh swimmer Theodora Taylor. She set a brand new Welsh document of 54.14 on the leadoff within the girls’s relay final evening as they positioned fifth, however she anchored in a blistering 52.63 to convey Wales house for bronze tonight.

She was out in 25.20 to overhaul Scotland and New Zealand, and practically caught Freya Colbert and England for silver on the ultimate 50. That is by far the quickest 100 free cut up of her profession, practically a second sooner than the 53.42 she posted because the British staff set a brand new European Junior document within the girls’s 4×100 free relay on the European Junior Championships two weeks in the past.

That could be the quickest junior 100 free cut up in historical past. Olivia Wunsch was 52.70 on the 2023 World Junior Championships for Australia and Rylee Erisman threw down a 52.75 on the 2025 version.

Freya Colbert and Freya Anderson had been each sub-54 for England as they edged forward of the sphere for silver, whereas Erika Fairweather‘s 53.59 anchor for New Zealand proved in useless as they positioned 4th in 3:24.82.

Uganda’s Gloria Muzito, who owns the nationwide document in a time of 55.26, cut up 54.95 because the Ugandan staff missed their nationwide document from the heats by simply 0.03 seconds.