Cam McEvoy Dazzles for 50 Free Gold at Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games, Day Three Finals: Cam McEvoy Flies To Games Record of 20.97 As Aussie Boys Sweep 50m Freestyle

The world’s quickest man, Cam McEvoy has turned his three Commonwealth Games silvers into his first particular person gold in Glasgow right now and he did it in a brand new Games file time of 20.97 in an Aussie sweep. McEvoy was simply .09 outdoors his personal world file of 20.88, his newest effort the fourth-fastest time ever in an superior present of powerhouse swimming.

It was a race that noticed fellow Aussie Dolphins teammates Flynn Southam clock a private finest time of 21.44 for silver with Games debutant Jamie Jack taking bronze, additionally in a private better of 21.47. It was the primary sweep for the reason that first 50m freestyle was swum on the 1990 Auckland Games.

McEvoy’s time break the earlier Games file of 21.30 – set within the semi-final by England’s Ben Proud in 2018 on the Gold Coast – with Proud successful the ultimate forward of McEvoy.

The 32-year-old Brisbane father, who devoted the win to one-year-old son Hartley, launched himself off the blocks on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre so as to add the title to a trophy cupboard that options an Olympic gold in 2024 and two World Championship golds in 2023 and 2025.

McEvoy saying after the race: “I feel like I’ve collected all the infinity stones….its a good feeling , I got silver here 12 years ago…and I’m over a second faster now than I was back then…to sweep the podium with these boys..(and their) 21.4s medals at any other previous international meet ever….the depth in Australia is amazing…”

Hungry for extra success as he plots and plans for continued enchancment, McEvoy  has thrown away the coaching rule guide together with his strength-based scientific method to coaching. His program netted him the world file of 20.88 in China earlier this 12 months, saying “this gold is the one that’s missing from my trophy cabinet…it was time to right the wrongs.”

And that’s simply what the person they name “The Professor” did with out taking a breath.

McEvoy, an eight-time Commonwealth Games medallist, added his first particular person gold to his three silvers –  the primary one, gained the final time the Games had been right here in Glasgow – in 2014.

McEvoy made his Games debut in Glasgow 12 years in the past when he completed second to England’s Proud within the 50m freestyle last with fellow Australian James Magnussen third. The 2014 meet marked the primary of three consecutive gold medal wins for Proud, who went on to set a Games file of 21.30 (swum within the semi-final) on the Gold Coast in 2018 with McEvoy ending third to Proud within the last – a file that now lastly belongs to McEvoy.

Proud, who together with Magnussen, had been two of the best profile defectors to the Enhanced Games this 12 months, wrapped up his three-peat in Birmingham in 2022 whereas McEvoy was on a break and weighing his future.

That future has seen the four-time Olympian unleash his energy packed new lease of life on swimming’s one-lap-dash – the person who has re-written a specialised coaching program based mostly round a scientific energy program on the QAS in Brisbane beneath the watchful eye of coach Tim Lane.

McEvoy stated earlier than the Games that he was excited to see what the expertise is like, what the venue is like. “Now 12 years on…a lot has changed and a lot has changed for the better as well…,” stated McEvoy.

“I just want to take a trip down memory lane …”