2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 4 Prelims Reside Recap

2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES

No back-end droop will transpire as we enter the latter half of the 2026 Commonwealth Games for swimming. We count on to see the start of three thrilling races on the lads’s aspect within the 200 fly, 100 free, and 800 free. On the ladies’s aspect, we shall be handled to the primary spherical of competitors within the 50 again, 50 breast, and the 400 IM.

To kick us off, the Scottish residence crowd has an opportunity to observe its personal Duncan Scott, who has already been topped a gold medalist this week, take the 200 fly heats. He holds the highest seed within the penultimate circle-seeded warmth, however within the following warmth Aussie report holder Harrison Turner and defending champion Lewis Clareburt will you’ll want to apply stress.

We then change over to the girl’s decathlon occasion, the 400 IM, which noticed an unusually speedy pre-season worldwide. Leading the cost among the many Commonwealth nations was Australian Jenna Forrester, who hit 4:31.37 for a brand new finest time earlier within the 12 months. She represents the favourite to get the center lane tonight, and may very well be surrounded by names like English teenager Amalie Smith or fellow Aussie Ella Ramsay.

A wealth of girls’s pace will current itself behind the blocks between the 50 again and 50 breast. In the previous, count on Mollie O’Callaghan and Lauren Cox to proceed sizzling streaks, with veteran Kylie Masse proper there within the hunt for a center lane tonight. Later, South African Lara van Niekerk will struggle to carry her Commonwealth area within the shortest breast occasion from competitors like teen Sienna Toohey.

Perhaps the largest present of the morning will come from the lads’s 100 free. Kyle Chalmers is without doubt one of the occasion’s biggest opponents ever and the defending champion, however a middle lane is much from assured. Big names from off Australia’s shores like Pieter Coetze, Josh Liendo, Matt Richards, Jacob Mills will problem, however the largest momentum challenger comes from residence. Flynn Southam has already been 47.0 this week, and the swimming world will carefully watch to see how he fares within the particular person occasion.

Men’s 200 Fly – Heats

• World Record: 1:50.34 – Kristof Milak (HUN), 2022
• Commonwealth Record: 1:52.80 – Ilya Kharun (CAN), 2024
• Commonwealth Games Record: 1:54.00 – Chad le Clos (RSA), 2018
• 2022 Champion: Lewis Clareburt (NZL) – 1:55.60

Top 8:

1. Harrison Turner (AUS) — 1:56.47
2. Lewis Clareburt (NZL) — 1:57.35
3. Edward Mildred (ENG) — 1:57.99
4. Kris Mihalyov (RSA) — 1:58.12
5. Duncan Scott (SCO) — 1:58.29
6. Sajan Prakash (IND) — 1:58.59
7. Benjamin Loewen (CAN) — 1:58.87
8. Matthew Temple (AUS) — 1:59.06

The second half of the meet kicked off with a first-heat duel between Englishman Edward Mildred and South Africa’s Kris Mihalyov. Mildred leveraged a powerful third 50 to take the lead from Mihalyov and maintain on to be the primary warmth winner of the morning. The same story appeared within the second warmth, with Duncan Scott taking the reins from Indian report holder Sajan Prakash on the third 50. The final warmth proved the swiftest, with Harrison Turner handing over a feisty morning swim of 1:56.47 to attract the highest lane tonight. Like this morning, he shall be subsequent to defending champion Lewis Clareburt of New Zealand, who’s the occasion’s second qualifier in 1:57.35.

Women’s 400 IM – Heats

• World Record: 4:23.65 – Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2025
• Commonwealth Record: 4:23.65 – Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2025
• Commonwealth Games Record: 4:29.01 – Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2022
• 2022 Champion: Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 4:29.01

Top 8:

1. Amalie Smith (ENG) — 4:39.13
2. Jenna Forrester (AUS) — 4:40.61
3. Tara Kinder (AUS) — 4:41.81
4. Ella Ramsay (AUS) — 4:42.61
5. Ella Jansen (CAN) — 4:45.19
6. Julie Brousseau (CAN) — 4:51.45
7. Evie Mackie (SCO) — 4:53.45
8. Clara Ginnis (JEY) — 5:05.83

In a morning session that didn’t require a sub-5 swim to make it again, it was 16-year-old Amalie Smith with the quickest gear on. Highlighted by a 1:18.07 breaststroke, Smith delivered a 4:39.13 that places the younger English star in an Australia sandwich for tonight’s swim. Smith took the primary warmth earlier than the second warmth went to occasion favourite Jenna Forrester.

Women’s 50 Back – Heats

• World Record: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2023
• Commonwealth Record: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2023
• Commonwealth Games Record: 27.31 – Kylie Masse (CAN), 2022
• 2022 Champion: Kylie Masse (CAN) – 27.31

Top 16:

1. Kylie Masse (CAN) — 27.79
2. Danielle Hill (NIR) — 28.04
3. Lauren Cox (ENG) — 28.14
4. Iona Alexandra Anderson (AUS) — 28.17
5. Savannah-Eve Martin (NZL) — 28.19
6. Olivia Nel (RSA) — 28.22
7. Jessica Thompson (RSA) — 28.56
8. Hannah Fredericks (AUS) — 28.61
9. Madison Kryger (CAN) — 28.77
10. Amber George (NZL) — 28.78
11. Bex Sutton (WAL) — 28.79
12. Halle Harris (SLE) — 29.07
13. Jessica Oliver Twapepwa Humphrey (NAM) — 29.08
14. Emma Harvey (BER) — 29.20
15. Ella Justice (IOM) — 29.30
16. Medi Harris (WAL) — 29.33

Mollie O’Callaghan, who ranks within the international high ten this season, was a no-show this morning after taking the 200 freestyle gold.

The first sub-30 swim of the morning got here from warmth three in Zambian report holder Mia Phiri (29.83). Then got here the circle-seeded heats, the place all of our high 16 derive from. Out of the ultimate warmth, seasoned veteran Kylie Masse was the morning’s lone sub-28 effort with a 27.79. Right behind her in the identical warmth was England’s Lauren Cox with a 28.14 to comfortably make it again for a second swim in third place. In the earlier warmth, Irish report holder Danielle Hill squeezed in between the 2 aforementioned women with a 28.04 warmth.

Men’s 100 Free – Heats

• World Record: 46.40 – Pan Zhanle (CHN), 2024
• Commonwealth Record: 47.04 – Cameron McEvoy (AUS), 2016
• Commonwealth Games Record: 47.09 – Flynn Southam (AUS), 2026
• 2022 Champion: Kyle Chalmer (AUS) – 47.51

Top 16:

Women’s 50 Breast – Heats

• World Record: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2023
• Commonwealth Record: 29.72 – Lara van Niekerk (RSA), 2022
• Commonwealth Games Record: 29.73 – Lara van Niekerk (RSA), 2022
• 2022 Champion: Lara van Niekerk (RSA) – 29.73

Top 16:

Men’s 800 Free – Slowest Heat

• World Record: 7:32.12 – Zhang Lin (CHN), 2009
• Commonwealth Record: 7:36.73 – Samuel Short (AUS), 2026

Results:

Women’s 100 Breast SB8 – Heats

• World Record: 1:13.83 – Brock Whiston (GBR), 2019

Men’s 100 Breast SB9 – Heats

• World Record: 1:04.02 – Pavel Poltavtsev (RUS), 2012