Ramsay-Peaty ends his Commonwealth Games with silver for England in medley relay | Commonwealth Games 2026

After six days of Australian dominance within the pool, the swimming programme at Glasgow 2026 got here to an in depth in acquainted trend because the inexperienced and gold claimed one closing victory after ending with a rare 37 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals within the water. The closing race additionally produced a slice of Commonwealth Games historical past as South Africa’s bronze within the males’s 4x100m medley relay earned Chad le Clos a record-breaking twenty first Commonwealth Games medal, making him essentially the most adorned athlete within the competitors’s historical past.

Adam Ramsay-Peaty, in the meantime, bowed out of the Games with a silver medal after England completed runners-up to Australia within the closing swimming occasion. Australia surged by the second half of the race to safe gold in a Games report of 3min 28.71sec, whereas England’s quartet of Oliver Morgan, Ramsay-Peaty, Edward Mildred and Jacob Mills claimed silver in 3:30.68 after holding off South Africa.

Morgan gave England a robust begin with a 53.20 opening leg earlier than Ramsay-Peaty saved them in second with a 58.74 cut up. Mildred slipped briefly to 3rd on the third leg regardless of clocking 51.04, earlier than Jacob Mills produced a 47.70 anchor to haul England again into second.

“To come in with the boys and get a silver medal, I can’t complain whatsoever,” stated Morgan. “It’s my fifth of the week. Some of us have had tough weeks but it shows the resilience we’ve had in the team. I’ve not had the best week individually, so to come away with some silverware is really impressive. It’s about building on that, moving into next season and into LA [2028 Olympics].”

In the penultimate race, Scotland rounded off their memorable evening with a silver medal within the ladies’s 4x100m medley relay after popping out in kilts as Australia stormed to gold in one other report time.

“It’s absolutely amazing,” stated Katie Shanahan. “I’m sure I can speak for all of us when I say there’s no better way to finish off a home meet than by getting that silver medal. It’s just been such an amazing meet, and it’s a week I’ll definitely remember for the rest of my life.”

“It’s something we save for the last night,” stated Evelyn Davis on strolling out with kilts on. “Katie’s falling off in the walkout actually calmed my nerves a bit before the crowd got going again, so it was good fun.”

Roared on by a vocal crowd, Shanahan, Angharad Evans and Keanna MacInnes battled for the lead all through earlier than Davis produced a composed anchor leg to carry off South Africa and Canada to safe second place. Australia, who had certified greater than 4 seconds quicker than the sector, lived as much as their billing as favourites as Iona Anderson, Sienna Toohey, Alex Perkins and Meg Harris powered to gold, whereas South Africa snatched bronze forward of Canada within the closing phases.

Earlier Evans had delighted the house assist by profitable a second breaststroke gold of the Games. The 23-year-old adopted up her 100m breaststroke triumph by profitable the ladies’s 200m breaststroke, holding off a late cost from South Africa’s Kaylene Corbett to seal victory by 0.67. Northern Ireland’s Ellie McCartney accomplished the rostrum with bronze.

“It’s been absolutely unreal,” Evans stated. “With the 100m I put too much pressure on myself because that’s what I see as my main event. The 200m feels even more special because afterwards I had all these doubts: did I only win the 100m because it was a fluke? Did I just get lucky? As crazy as that sounds. To back it up with not just another medal but another gold is just so surreal.”

The night had begun with one other assertion efficiency from South Africa’s Pieter Coetze, who retained his males’s 100m backstroke crown in emphatic trend. He clocked a Commonwealth Games report of 51.77 – simply 0.17 exterior the world report – to gather his third gold medal in Glasgow after profitable the 50m and 200m backstroke titles. England’s Morgan claimed silver, whereas Coetze’s compatriot Ruard van Renen secured bronze.

Australia additionally dominated the dash occasions, with clear sweeps within the ladies’s 50m freestyle and males’s 50m butterfly. Harris led residence her teammates Perkins and Shayna Jack, taking bronze within the closing race of her profession, within the ladies’s occasion. The Welsh teenager Theodora Taylor was fourth. In the lads’s butterfly, Kyle Chalmers and Ben Armbruster shared gold after each broke the Games report with similar occasions of twenty-two.7. Cameron McEvoy took bronze.