Cam McEvoy says ‘I can’t simply cruise’ as he dominates 50m freestyle in Glasgow and eyes Olympics | Australia sport

Cam McEvoy’s Glasgow gold has him trying to Los Angeles with confidence as he headlined one other sturdy evening for Australia’s Commonwealth Games swim crew.

The dash ace dominated the 50m freestyle remaining on Sunday evening, going below 21 seconds for under the second time. It is McEvoy’s first particular person gold medal at his third Commonwealth Games.

McEvoy’s Games-record 20.97 seconds follows his 20.88 world file in March and continues his outstanding swimming renaissance.

He led house an Australian medal sweep within the occasion – certainly one of 5 swimming gold medals on day three – however the time was the larger deal as he seems to be to defend his Olympic title on the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

“It [gold] is really good, but I’m more excited about ducking under the 21-second barrier,” he mentioned. “A double whammy for me. It was a really good night.

“I really wanted to prove to myself that I can consistently get under that [21 seconds]. So to do that for a second time, that brings me a lot of confidence for the world championships next year, LA, moving forward.”

After a disappointing Tokyo Olympics, McEvoy took a sabbatical and almost left the game. He fully overhauled his coaching and returned for a shocking Paris triumph within the 50m freestyle.

“Prior to Paris, I still had the, I guess … the demons to work with in terms of my Olympic relationship,” he mentioned.

“I was able to overcome them, but also I’ve been open-sourcing this type of training for a long time.

“The world is getting faster. I can’t just cruise into it.”

Flynn Southam received silver and Jamie Jack was third to finish the Australian sweep.

Lani Pallister dominates 1500m

As McEvoy dominated the one-lap sprint, Lani Pallister remained equally untouchable in distance freestyle occasions on the Games and turned the 1500m into a private time trial and her second Glasgow gold.

After taking out the 400m on day one, Pallister received the 1500 by almost 18 seconds as the ladies’s occasion made its debut on the Games.

But there was no Australian procession within the males’s 4x200m freestyle remaining.

For as soon as, it was a real race and England led on the final change earlier than Kai Taylor’s blistering anchor leg delivered the final gold medal of day three and one other Games file.

Sam Short, Harry Turner, Ed Sommerville and Taylor clocked seven minutes 1.47 seconds to interrupt the Games file Australia set in Birmingham.

Iona Anderson had an emotional hug together with her Scottish grandmother after profitable the 100m backstroke. She had tartan nails as a nod to her heritage.

Australia’s opening ceremony baton bearer Tim Hodge efficiently defended his Games 100m backstroke S9 title.

Australian swimmers have now collected 16 gold medals in three days, entrenching their nation atop the general Games medal standings.

But Matthew Temple suffered a nasty case of deja vu, the Australian once more shedding to Canadian star Josh Liendo in a record-breaking 100m butterfly remaining.

Liendo beat Temple by one one-hundredth of a second and fellow Australian Ben Armbruster took bronze.

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The Olympic silver medallist clocked 50.42 seconds whereas Temple touched the wall in 50.43, going below the Games file of fifty.63 that the Australian had set on day two within the semi-finals.

Scott wins gymnastics silver, however Godwin misses podium

Drawing inspiration from her “idol” and teammate Georgia Godwin, Australian gymnast Breanna Scott has damaged by way of for particular person all-around silver in Glasgow.

All eyes have been on defending champion Godwin, however it was Scott who led the cost for Australia because the Canadian nice Ellie Black received gold at Glasgow International Stadium.

Black’s 16-year-old teammate Lia-Monica Fontaine adopted for bronze, whereas Godwin settled for fifth after guiding Australia to a crew gold the day earlier than.

Scott wins her first particular person medal on the Games, having received crew silver on debut in Birmingham.

“It’s pretty crazy. I don’t really think it’s sunk in yet,” Scott mentioned. “There’s been so much that’s happened in the last 24 hours.”

The Sydney native credited Godwin and Black for pushing her to the restrict in Glasgow.

“They’re both like such great role models. Georgia is like basically all of our idols in the team,” Scott mentioned.

“We look up to her. She’s just so great to have there. She’s the most supportive person you could have on the team.

“And obviously Ellie, like she’s an icon of the sport so it was really great to be competing with both of them.”

After a quiet begin on the vault and uneven bars, beam specialist Scott surged into medal competition after scoring 13.900 factors in her pet occasion.

Scott was on the right track to say gold on the remaining rotation after her ground routine netted her 12.800 factors, however Canada’s Black did simply sufficient to say gold.

The 24-year-old Australian will once more take to the steadiness beam for the person equipment remaining with teammate Kate McDonald.