Commonwealth Games: Meg Harris Leads AUS Sweep in 100 Free

Commonwealth Games, Day Four Finals: Meg Harris Lifts Like A Hydrofoil to Lead Third Aussie Sweep in Glasgow Pool in 100 Freestyle

Lifting like a hydrofoil, Meg Harris has spearheaded Australia’s third clear sweep within the Glasgow Games pool tonight, successful her first main particular person 100m freestyle gold medal in 52.90.

The 24-year-old Queenslander held off her fellow swim staff sisters, defending champion Mollie O’Callaghan (53.25) and Shayna Jack (53.38). The swimmers pushed one another to the rostrum, and Harris received Australia’s 18^th gold medal on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

It was a shocking efficiency from Harris, the reigning world champion and Olympic silver medalist within the 50m freestyle, who used her velocity to zoom down the primary lap, splitting 25.53. Coming off the wall, Harris knew she must discover one thing along with her teammates O’Callaghan and Jack coming to get her.

With 25 meters to swim, it was a line of three gold caps throughout the pool, nevertheless it was Harris who lifted within the closing phases, discovering that little bit further to show her 50m velocity into Glasgow 100m gold.

Triple Olympic gold medalist Ariarne Titmus, in tv commentary for Channel 7 in Australia, declared: ”Meg Harris was like a hydrofoil popping out of the water…what a swim!”

Australia’s males – Sam Short, Elijah Winnington and Ben Goedemans – landed the primary sweep within the males’s 400m freestyle on the opening night time earlier than Cam McEvoy, Flynn Southam and Jamie Jack swept the 50m freestyle.

In Games historical past, this was the primary sweep within the 100 free – and all 4 have come from the Australian staff. The first time in Cardiff in 1958 when the nice Dawn Fraser and Lorraine Crapp received gold and silver with Alva Colquhoun the bronze.

Then 2014 in Glasgow when the Campbell sisters Cate and Bronte received gold and silver with Emma McKeon the bronze. Bronte turned the tables on Cate 4 years later, successful gold in a Games document time of 52.27.

Australia swept once more in Birmingham 4 years in the past when O’Callaghan, Jack and McKeon landed the trifecta. The Aussie ladies remained unbeaten since 2002 in Manchester when Jodie Henry received gold, two years earlier than she received Olympic gold in 2004. After Henry, winners have included Libby Trickett (2006), Alicia Coutts (2010), the Campbell sisters (2014 and 2018) and O’Callaghan.