Australia Demolish Blended 4×100 Free Commonwealth Games Record in 3:19.36

2026 Commonwealth Games

MIXED 4×100 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL

• World Record: 3:18.48 – USA (Alexy, Sammon, Douglass, Huske), 2025
• Commonwealth Record: 3:18.83 – Australia (Cartwright, Chalmers, Jack, O’Callaghan), 2023
• Commonwealth Games Record: 3:21.18 – Australia (Yang, Chalmers, O’Callaghan, McKeon), 2022
• 2022 Champion: Australia (Yang, Chalmers, O’Callaghan, McKeon) – 3:21.18

GOLD – Australia, 3:19.36, *Commonwealth Games Record*
SILVER – England, 3:23.91
BRONZE – Wales, 3:24.33

Australia set their second relay Commonwealth Games file in two days with a dominant swim within the blended 4×100 free relay tonight. Their time of three:19.36 sliced almost two seconds off the earlier mark from the 2022 Games and beat the sector by over 4 seconds tonight.

Flynn Southam acquired them off to a terrific begin with a 47.29 leadoff, a second and a half quicker than William Yang‘s 48.80 from the 2022 file. That is his second-fastest swim ever, behind solely his 47.09 leadoff and Games file from the 4×100 free relay final evening.

Kyle Chalmers was barely slower than his 47.55 cut up from 4 years in the past with a 47.62 on the second leg tonight. Shayna Jack (52.42) and Meg Harris (52.03) had been round two tenths of a second every quicker than Mollie O’Callaghan (52.62) and Emma McKeon (52.21).

Split Comparison

Jack and Chalmers each featured on the Australian file swim three years in the past, and Chalmers has featured on all three of the above swims.

Tonight’s swim ranks because the second-fastest efficiency in Australian historical past, behind solely that 3:18.83 they swam on the 2023 World Championships. It can also be the #3 swim in world historical past, with Australia holding the #2, #3, and #4 swims ever, though World Aquatics have introduced they’re dropping the occasion from the World Championships schedule going ahead.