Kai Taylor Powers Australia to Commonwealth 800 Free Relay Title

Commonwealth Games, Day Three Finals: Australia Smashes Games Record to Land Stunning Gold Medal in Men’s 800 Freestyle Relay

Kai Taylor, the son of an Aussie legend Hayley Lewis, has unleashed the anchor leg of his life to spearhead Australia to a shocking gold medal in a brand new Games document time of seven:01.47  within the males’s 4x200m freestyle relay in Glasgow.

It was a barnstorming come-from-behind win by the new-look Dolphins workforce with Taylor chasing down England’s Max Litchfield within the closing leg of an exhilarating relay finale on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

England took silver in 7:04.98 and Wales the bronze in 7:09.59.

England’s triple Olympic relay gold medallist, James Guy, essentially the most experiened relay swimmer within the area, produced a shocking third leg break up of 1:44.03 in opposition to Australa’s Ed Somerville to present England a two-metre lead on the closing change over.

But it was Taylor, the son of a gun, and with Mum Hayley and father Greg screaming their lungs out within the grandstand, who produced the leg of a lifetime – chasing one other English star in Max Litchfield to set the stage for a grandstand end.

Taylor taking off prefer it was a 100m swim to catch Litchfield and burning off the Englishman to supply one other supper break up of 1:44.10 to maintain the 4x200m freestyle relay safely in Australia’s holding – the 17the victory within the occasion in Commonwealth Games historical past – with Australia solely dropping the occasion as soon as since 1970 – and that was to England in Melbourne in 2006.

It was Matt Richards who led off for Wales  in 1:45.42 once more Australia’s 400m freestyle gold medallist at hese Games, Sam Shortwho clocked  1:46.08 and 18-year-old English rookie Gabe Shepherd in 1:46.67 – setting the stage for one of the vital anticipated relays of the meet – the roar of the packed Tollcross pool reaching fever pitch with the winners of the final two Olympic gold medals on this occasion for Great Britain unfold by means of the house nations.

Australia, with an entire new workforce from its current worldwide outings had been up for the problem with Brisbane relay rookie and world championship butterfly bronze medallist Harrison Turner backing up for his second relay after profitable gold within the 4x100m on the opening night time, who took over for the second leg – splitting 1:45.95 and giving the Aussies the lead over England – =Turner out-touching Olympic champion Tom Dean who break up 1:45.63.

Turner giving Somerville the lead as he took on Guy – the 30-year-old veteran who swims relays in his sleep – and it was Guy who dug deeper than ever who confirmed the teen what relay swimming is all about – “don’t spend your pennies too early” – Guy spending up large in a powerhouse closing 100m to present England the lead they wanted.

Guy handing over to Litchfield and Somerville altering over to Taylor – sport on!

But enter the Taylor issue within the altering of the guard for Australia – mum yelling herself hoarse, coach Dean Boxall urging him on from pooldeck and Kai delivering like he’s by no means delivered earlier than.

Lifting to the roar of the gang – a cheer squad led by his well-known mum who had received the identical relay for Australia on her Games debut as a 15-year-old in Auckland 36 years  in the past.

“Killer”Kai  delivering for Australia in spades with the workforce’s sixteenth gold medal in a inexperienced and gold tsunami within the Glasgow Games pool – and there are nonetheless three days to go.