Canada’s Josh Liendo breaks Commonwealth Games report for gold

Toronto swimmer Joshua Liendo and Halifax gymnast Ellie Black added gold medals to Canada’s tally on the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.

Liendo defended his males’s 100-metre butterfly title earlier than Black grew to become the primary particular person to win two all-around gymnastics crowns on the Games.

Liendo touched the wall in a meet report of fifty.42 seconds, edging Australians Matthew Temple (50.43) and Ben Armbruster (50.58) at Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

The 23-year-old repeated as Commonwealth champion after profitable gold in 2022 and later incomes Olympic silver within the occasion on the 2024 Paris Games.

Liendo narrowly missed a second medal about 90 minutes later, ending fourth within the 50-metre freestyle in 21.55 seconds. Australia’s Cameron McEvoy received gold in 20.97, adopted by Flynn Southam (21.44) and Jamie Jack (21.47).

Elsewhere within the pool, five-time Olympic medallist Kylie Masse earned silver within the girls’s 100-metre backstroke for her tenth profession Commonwealth Games medal, probably the most by a Canadian feminine swimmer.

The 31-year-old from LaSalle, Ont., completed in 58.77 seconds behind Australia’s Iona Alexandra Anderson after main by 0.44 seconds on the midway mark. South Africa’s Olivia Nel took bronze in 1:00.09.

In gymnastics, Black reclaimed the title she first received on the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The 30-year-old Black totalled a profitable rating of 53.050 to beat Australia’s Breanna Scott (52.900). Lia-Monica Fontaine, a 16-year-old from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., took bronze (52.800) in her Commonwealth Games debut.

Canada’s Félix Dolci received silver within the males’s gymnastics all-around remaining earlier Sunday, incomes his second medal of the competitors.

Dolci scored 79.450, coming inside two tenths of gold-medallist Reuben Ward of host Scotland at Glasgow International Arena. Australia’s Jesse Moore took bronze (79.000).

Dolci, a 24-year-old from Laval, Que., helped lead Canada to gold within the males’s crew occasion on Friday when he topped the person standings with a rating of 81.650. Canada received silver within the girls’s gymnastics crew occasion on Saturday.

Canada now has 9 medals on the Games — three gold, three silver and three bronze.

Also on Sunday, the Canadian males’s and girls’s wheelchair basketball groups fell to 1-1 in play with a pair of losses to England.

Flag-bearer Kady Dandeneau scored 11 factors, however Canada’s girls’s crew misplaced 15-12 to England.

“I think it was just a little nerves kind of got to us,” Dandeneau stated. “We didn’t execute on some of the stuff that we needed to, and it just got away from us there in the beginning. We let them get a big lead, unfortunately.”

The Canadian males then dropped a 20-10 resolution. Both groups return to the courtroom on Monday for matchups towards Australia.

The Commonwealth Games run by means of Aug. 2. This yr’s competitors, that includes 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories, was downsized after Glasgow stepped in late because the host metropolis when the Australian state of Victoria pulled out in 2023 over ballooning prices.