2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 3 Finals Dwell Recap

2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES

We’ve bought yet one more thrilling lineup of semi-finals and finals on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre as Australia continues to dominate the medal desk.

The nation may have a number of of its massive weapons within the pool this night, with World Record holder Cameron McEvoy taking over his signature 50m free, whereas the harmful trio of Meg Harris, Shayna Jack and Mollie O’Callaghan are among the many high contenders within the ladies’s 100m free semi-finals.

Matt Temple may also be within the highlight for Australia, racing within the last of the lads’s 1000m fly towards teammate Harrison Turner and Canadian Josh Liendo, amongst others.

Liendo will pull double responsibility this night, racing in each the 50m free and 100m fly, along with his Canadian countrywoman Kylie Masse showing within the ladies’s 100 again last.

Lani Pallister of the inexperienced and gold will go after one other high spot, this time within the ladies’s 1500m free last, after already capturing 400m free gold.

One race through which an Aussie shouldn’t be a favourite is the ladies’s 100m breast, the place Scottish ace Angharad Evans heads up the sector, with South African Aimee Canny scorching on her heels.

Additional races embrace the lads’s 50m breast semi-final, the ladies’s 100m fly semi-final and the lads’s 4x200m free last.

WOMEN’S S9 100 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• World Record – 1:07.41, Sophie Pascoe (NZL), 2019
• Commonwealth Games Record – 1:08.77, Alice Tai (ENG), 2018
• 2022 Champion – Alice Tai (ENG), 1:13.64

GOLD – Alice Tai (ENG), 1:11.93
SILVER – Gemma Sellick (AUS), 1:14.06
BRONZE – Victoria Belando Nicholson (AUS), 1:15.11

MEN’S S9 100 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• World Record – 59.72, Simone Barlaam (ITA), 2022
• Commonwealth Games Record – 1:01.88, Timothy Hodge (AUS), 2022
• 2022 Champion – Timothy Hodge (AUS), 1:01.88

GOLD – Timothy Hodge (AUS), 1:03.00
SILVER – Barry McClements (NIR), 1:03.68
BRONZE – Harrison Vig (AUS), 1:04.87

WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King (USA), 2017
• Commonwealth Record: 1:04.82 – Tatjana Smith(RSA), 2021
• Commonwealth Games Record: 1:05.09 – Leisel Jones (AUS), 2006
• 2022 Champion – Lara van Niekerk (RSA) – 1:05.47

GOLD – Angharad Evans (SCO), 1:06.07
SILVER – Aimeee Canny (RSA), 1:06.19
BRONZE – Sienna Toohey (AUS), 1:06.47

Scotland’s nationwide report holder and Olympian Angharad Evans as soon as once more commanded the ladies’s 100m breaststroke discipline, producing a gold medal-worthy swim of 1:06.07.

That was off her semi-final swim of 1:05.34, however sufficient to carry off South Africa’s Aimee Canny and Australian age-group phenom Sienna Toohey.

After scratching right this moment’s 100 free heats, Canny settled for silver in 1:06.19 with Australian 17-year-old Toohey touchdown on the rostrum in 1:06.47 for the bronze.

Evans’ season-best stays on the 1:04.96 logged on the Aquatics GB Championships in April to rank because the #1 performer on this planet proper now.

Canny’s time of 1:05.97 from June’s TYR Pro Swim Series rendered her the Fifth-best performer, whereas Toohey’s time of 1:05.97 from the Australian Trials final month ties her.

MEN’s 100 BUTTERFLY – FINAL

• World Record: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 2021
• Commonwealth Record: 49.99 – Josh Liendo (CAN), 2024
• Commonwealth Games Record: 50.63 – Matt Temple (AUS), 2026
• 2022 Champion – Josh Liendo (CAN) – 51.24

GOLD – Josh Liendo (CAN), 50.42 *Commonwealth Games Record*
SILVER – Matt Temple (AUS), 50.43
BRONZE – Ben Armbruster (AUS), 50.58

Despite 27-year-old Olympian Matt Temple carrying the highest time of fifty.63 into tonight’s males’s 100m fly last, it was Canadian Olympic medalist and nationwide report holder Josh Liendo who finally touched first for the gold in 50.42.

27-year-old Temple’s morning time set a brand new Commonwealth Games Record, erasing the 50.64 Olympic champion Chad le Clos of South Africa set in 2018.

But Liendo crushed an excellent faster benchmark of fifty.42 to seize the gold tonight, touching the wall solely .01 forward of Temple to publish an much more fashionable Commonwealth Games Record.

Ben Armbruster of Australia settled for bronze tonight in 50.58.

WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – SEMI-FINALS

• World Record – 51.68, Marrit Steenbergen (NED), 2026
• Commonwealth Record – 51.96, Emma McKeon (AUS), 2021
• Commonwealth Games Record – 52.27, Bronte Campbell (AUS), 2018
• 2022 Champion – Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 52.63

Top 8:

MEN’S 50 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

Top 8:

WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

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MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• World Record – 1:51.92, Aaron Peirsol (USA), 2009
• Commonwealth Record – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin (AUS), 2015
• Commonwealth Games Record – 1:55.58, James Goddard (ENG), 2010
• 2022 Champion – Brodie Williams (ENG), 1:56.40

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WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – SEMI-FINALS

• World Record – 54.33, Gretchen Walsh (USA), 2026
• Commonwealth Record – 55.59, Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 2021
• Commonwealth Games Record – 56.36, Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 2022
• 2022 Champion – Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 56.36

Top 8:

MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – FINAL

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WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE – FASTEST HEAT

• World Record – 15:20.48, Katie Ledecky (USA), 2018
• Commonwealth Record – 15:39.14, Lani Pallister (AUS), 2025
• Commonwealth Games Record – Not Established
• 2022 Champion – N/A

GOLD – 
SILVER – 
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MEN’S 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL

• World Record – 6:58.55, USA, 2009
• Commonwealth Record – 7:00.85, Australia, 2019
• Commonwealth Games Record – 7:04.96, Australia, 2022
• 2022 Champion – Australia, 7:04.96

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BRONZE –