Commonwealth Games 2026: England swimmers take gold in record-breaking occasions

Swimmers Georgia Sheffield and Will Ellard each broke data to win England’s first golds within the pool on day two of the Commonwealth Games.

Sheffield set a brand new championship file of two minutes 06.44 seconds within the girls’s 200m freestyle S14 earlier than minutes later Ellard set his personal Commonwealth file time of 1:51.66 within the males’s occasion.

Ellard broke his personal file after already setting a file time of 1:53.52 within the heats.

“I’ve completed it all now,” 20-year-old Ellard mentioned.

“European, worlds, Commonwealth, Paralympics now. I’d like to try and do it three times in my career – maybe four, I don’t know. You never know in s14’s who will come up.”

Sheffield was joined on the rostrum by Poppy Marshall, who gained the silver medal.

“We’re best friends, so to share this moment together makes it even better,” mentioned Sheffield.

“We push each other hard in training and we’re always racing each other. Having someone like that alongside you really helps because you’re constantly driving each other on.”

There have been additionally three silver medals for Oliver Morgan within the 50m backstroke and the combined 4x100m freestyle relay group of Jacob Mills, Jacob Whittle, Freya Anderson and Freya Colbert.

Teenager Filip Nowacki additionally took silver to make historical past for Jersey within the males’s 100m breaststroke, whereas former champion Adam Ramsay-Peaty took third.