Georgia Godwin overcomes ‘horrible’ harm to win gymnastics gold as Australian swimmers dominate in Glasgow | Commonwealth Games 2026

The star gymnast Georgia Godwin has no extra tears left to cry, having survived the “horrible, horrible” highway again from harm to information Australia to a group gold medal on the Commonwealth Games.

Meanwhile within the pool, Australia are turning the Tollcross Swimming Centre right into a fortress after Sam Williamson, Sam Short and Mollie O’Callaghan led a parade of 5 gold medals on day two in Glasgow.

Godwin, 28, burst into tears as she grew to become the nation’s most embellished girls’s gymnast on the Games, with Australia main from the outset en path to a closing rating of 158.400 factors.

Canada trailed by 1.100 factors for silver, whereas 2022 Birmingham champions England (154.300) claimed bronze at Glasgow International Arena.

Godwin received her ninth Games medal to surpass Allana Slater within the file books, bringing her haul to 3 gold, 4 silver and two bronze medals forward of the person all-around and equipment finals.

“Sorry Allana,” Godwin mentioned.

The breakout star of the 2022 Games, Godwin hit the bottom operating in her emotional comeback from a traumatic Achilles harm she suffered simply three months earlier than the 2024 Olympics.

She had ruptured the tendon in her left foot doing a round-off flick double pike whereas coaching a flooring routine.

Nailing her flooring train in Glasgow, the 28-year-old cried tears of aid and scored 12.850 factors.

“It’s been a horrible, horrible road back,” Godwin mentioned. “My support team have been absolutely amazing, but the mental challenges I’ve had to go through have been some of the – well, the hardest I’ve been through in my life.

“There were so many days where I’m like, ‘I can’t do this, I’m too old, I’m too sore. My Achilles would just never be the way it used to be’.

“But I want to finish this sport on my own terms.”

Asked what she advised herself earlier than she took to her first worldwide flooring routine since her harm, Godwin started to cry once more. “I’m going to have no tears left by the end of this – I can do it,” Godwin laughed. “I did it for everyone that has helped me get back.”

Godwin will look to cement her legacy on the Games when she goals to defend her particular person all-around and vault titles.

Already boasting three 2018 Gold Coast Games medals, Godwin had drawn degree with Slater on eight medals in 2022 after profitable uneven bars, stability beam and group all-around silvers.

Australia’s five-woman squad was unrelenting throughout the 4 apparatuses – vault, uneven bars, stability beam and flooring – to win the nation’s first group gold medal because the 2010 Delhi Games.

Five extra gold in pool as Australian swimmers dominate

Sam Short and Sam Williamson have spearheaded one other dominant night time for Australia’s swimmers who secured 5 extra gold medals within the Glasgow pool.

Mollie O’Callaghan threw apart “the unlucky stick” to win the 200m freestyle, Alex Perkins earned her first main particular person crown within the 50m butterfly and Kyle Chalmers received a ninth gold within the blended freestyle relay to dwelling in on Games historical past.

Short led an all Australian podium of 1-2-3 within the 400m freestyle whereas Williamson downed British nice Adam Ramsay-Peaty in an exciting 100m breaststroke closing.

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A yr in the past, Williamson feared for his profession after rupturing his patella tendon in coaching. The 28-year-old Victorian was an image of emotion after Saturday’s race as he thanked his household, having beating world file holder Ramsay-Peaty who was consigned to show .

“Mentally it was the toughest challenge I’ve ever had to face,” mentioned Williamson, who cast via with a robust second size to win in 59.17 seconds.

“Every single day I wanted to throw in the towel but I knew how far I’d come to get to that point.”

Short, who’s taking pictures for 5 gold medals in Glasgow, dominated the sphere by greater than 4 seconds in 3 minutes 41.25 seconds earlier than providing a muscle man celebration.

“It doesn’t come around too often and you’ve got to make the most of it,” mentioned the Queenslander of his flex.

Behind the 22-year-old Queenslander there was a fierce battle as Elijah Winnington (3:45.56) pipped teammate Ben Goedemans by one hundredth of a second.

It was a formidable effort from Winnington, who revealed afterwards he’d spent a lot of the earlier night time over a bathroom bowl after a bout of meals poisoning.

Short mentioned the sweep echoed the 400m free 1-2-3 in Birmingham 4 years in the past when Winnington led dwelling Short, with Mack Horton nabbing the bronze.

“It just goes to show the rich history of Australian 400m swimming and it’s super special,” mentioned Winnington.

O’Callaghan, who’d anchored the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle-winning quartet the night time earlier than, picked up her second gold, exhibiting no vestiges of the stress fractures and bone bruising in her again that had forged a cloud over her participation.

“Dealing with the injury currently is not the best thing ever, but as an athlete you’ve got to find ways to adapt,” mentioned O’Callaghan, who stopped the clock at 1:54.66 to Lani Pallister’s 1:55.01, having at all times been in management.

“That’s the best part about sport – you get hit with an unlucky stick and then you’ve got to pick yourself back up.

“Doing modified training and adapting to that and seeing how I go off that, it’s just incredible.”

It was an emotional night for Perkins, two days earlier than her twenty sixth birthday, as she took the butterfly sprint in 25.37 seconds.

“I don’t even think I really believed that I’d ever be at this level so I’m just taking it all in,” beamed the Queenslander, who’d beforehand received 4 main particular person medals however by no means made the highest of the rostrum.

The Australian freestylers made it 5 golds as Flynn Southam, Chalmers, Shayna Jack and Meg Harris set a brand new Games file within the blended relay, clocking 3:19.36 in a procession.

It’s left Chalmers on 9 gold profession Commonwealth Games medals, and if he can ship one other within the 100m freestyle, he’ll surpass Ian Thorpe as probably the most profitable Australian males’s swimmer within the historical past of the Games.

Paralympic silver medallist Jack Ireland savoured one other second-place end within the 200m freestyle S14 closing for Australia’s sixth medal within the para occasions within the pool.