2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 3 Finals Preview

2026 Commonwealth Games

Tonight has the potential for our first world file of the Commonwealth Games, with Cam McEvoy in motion within the males’s 50 free, whereas Tollcross could also be briefly with out a roof if Angharad Evans units a brand new British and Scottish file to win the ladies’s 100 breast.

The session will begin with a pair of para-swimming occasions. Australian swimmers Liam Togher and Gemma Sellick are the highest seeds within the males’s and ladies’s S9 100 again with defending champions Timothy Hodge  and Alice Tai third and fifth, respectively, within the heats this morning. This occasion was an S8 occasion 4 years in the past, so Tai is swimming up a class.

We then transfer onto what’s prone to be the loudest occasion of the night time. Angharad Evans has been a fan favourite at this meet and is the red-hot favourite within the girls’s 100 breast, clocking 1:05.34 within the semi-final final night time to maneuver by as the highest seed.

That is 4 tenths of a second off her British file of 1:04.96 that she set in April, and simply half a second off Tatjana Smith‘s Commonwealth file. Leisel Jones‘ Commonwealth Games file of 1:05.09, which has stood since 2006, additionally appears to be like at risk.

South Africa’s Aimee Canny, who has scratched the 200 free and 100 free in consecutive morning classes to stay uber-focused on this occasion, was simply seven hundredths of a second off her lifetime better of 1:05.97 with a 1:06.04 within the semi-finals, forward of Australia’s Sienna Toohey (1:06.69) and Canada’s Sophie Angus (1:06.74).

Sabrina Lyn, who snuck by in eighth, made Jamaica’s first Commonwealth Games ultimate in swimming since Alia Atkinson gained 50 breast silver in 2018.

Matt Temple and Josh Liendo have been lightning quick within the semi-finals of the lads’s 100 fly final night time, with Temple setting a brand new Commonwealth Games file in 50.63, simply forward of Liendo’s 50.67. Ed Mildred and Ben Armbruster look to be in a equally tight battle for third after touching in 51.30 and 51.32, respectively, within the first semi-final final night time.

Liendo is the defending champion, so 2022 silver medalist Temple can be seeking to avenge that defeat. Australia’s Harrison Turner and Welsh file holder Lewis Fraser can be ones to look at, as will South Africa’s former Commonwealth Games file holder Chad le Clos in lane 8.

Meg Harris was the one girl below 54 seconds within the 100 free heats this morning, with Mollie O’Callaghan second in 54.37. Their teammate Shayna Jack was ninth in 55.18, however all three ought to transfer comfortably by to tomorrow’s ultimate with season bests within the 52-second vary.

Theodora Taylor set a Welsh file of 54.14 on Friday and is available in third after clocking 54.80 this morning. She anchored the Welsh combined free group in 52.63 final night time as they gained an historic bronze medal, so might break into the 53s tonight. National file holders Anahira McCutcheon of Fiji and Gloria Muzito of Uganda can be eyeing these information tonight.

Michael Houlie leads the lads into the 50 breast semi-finals after clocking 26.53 this morning, the second-fastest swim of his profession. He opened his 100 breast semi-final on Friday in 26.38, which stands as each the African file and Commonwealth Games file.

Sam Williamson was additionally below 27 seconds this morning with a 26.75 after profitable the 100 breast final night time, and Chris Smith, Adam Ramsay-Peaty, Filip Nowacki, Archie Goodburn, and Ronan Wantenaar are entered in 27-lows.

Kylie Masse clocked the one sub-1:00 swim within the girls’s 100 again semi-finals, however Iona Anderson posted a time of 58.60 at Australian Trials and was 1:00.11 final night time. Katie Shanahan and Hannah Fredericks, the silver and bronze medalists from the 200 again, are additionally within the subject as is England’s 2023 world 50 again bronze medalist Lauren Cox

The males’s 200 again appears to be like like Pieter Coetze‘s to lose after he swam an easy 1:58.48 this morning. The South African gained silver on the World Championships final summer season in an African file of 1:53.36, and is coming off resetting the Commonwealth Games file 3 times within the 50 again as he gained the title in 24.18 final night time.

Luke Greenbank is the highest seed and chasing a medal on the one competitors he’s but to personal a person medal from. He labored his underwaters this morning to clock 1:58.05, forward of teammate Jack Skerry who moved by in seventh in a time of two:01.11, greater than three seconds off his finest.

Ollie Morgan gained silver within the 50 again final night time for his first main particular person lengthy course medal, and regarded clean as he swam 1:58.68 to beat Henry Allan for the win in warmth 2. Morgan has a better of 1:55.55 from final April, and gained the British title in 1:55.86 earlier this 12 months.

The girls’s 100 fly noticed six girls between 57.93 and 58.29 this morning. All three medalists from the 50 fly are in motion, with Aussie Alex Perkins the favourite to say lane 4 for tomorrow’s ultimate. There are three Scotswomen within the semi-finals, so count on this to be a loud one, particularly with Stirling’s Keanna MacInnes the highest seed in 57.93.

We can be on file watch within the males’s 50 free ultimate, as Cam McEvoy goes in lane 3 after posting a two-breath 21.64 within the semi-finals. He broke the world file in March with a 20.88 on the China Open, and has gained two world titles and an Olympic title within the final three years.

The prime seed is his teammate Jamie Jack, who notched his third-fastest time ever with a 21.55 within the semi-finals. He can have Josh Liendo on the opposite facet of him, because the Canadian additionally posted the third-fastest time of his profession.

Calvyn Justus swam a brand new lifetime better of 21.86 for South Africa, eight years after his first Commonwealth Games, and Flynn Southam lurks in lane 2 after a pair of huge 100 free swims within the final couple of days. Fiji’s Tolu Young makes his nation’s first ever Commonwealth Games ultimate in swimming.

Lani Pallister appears to be like the favourite to run away with the ladies’s 1500 free, entered as the highest seed by practically 20 seconds over New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather. Both swimmers have claimed two particular person medals already at this meet, Pallister profitable gold within the 400 free and silver within the 200 free, and Fairweather profitable silver within the 400 free and bronze within the 200 free. Singapore’s Ching Hwee Gan, who set a brand new nationwide file within the 400 free on Friday, is the #3 seed and can fancy her probabilities at each a medal and decreasing her nationwide file beneath 16:00.

Australia appears to be like a category aside within the males’s 4×200 free relay, practically ten seconds quicker than Scotland and England this morning. Barring any big surprises, that appears to be the rostrum tonight, though all three nations will shake their groups up for the ultimate.