2026 Commonwealth Games: Day 5 Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay Evaluation

2026 Commonwealth Games

Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay – Final

• World Record: 3:37.43 – USA (2024)
• Commonwealth Record: 3:37.58 – Great Britain (2021)
• Games Record: 3:41.30 – Australia (2022)
• 2022 Champion – Australia, 3:41.30

Top 8:

1. Australia (Anderson, Williamson, Temple, Harris) – 3:40.46 ***GAMES RECORD***
2. South Africa (Coetze, Houlie, Gallagher, Canny) – 3:42.61 ***AFRICAN RECORD***
3. Scotland (Ward, Evans, MacInnes, Scott) – 3:43.70
4. Canada (Masse, Dawson, Liendo, Jansen) – 3:44.23
5. England (Cox, Ramsay-Peaty, Mildred, Colbert) – 3:45.59
6. Northern Ireland (Cullen, Bradley, Hamilton, Davison) – 3:49.10
7. Jamaica (McKenzie, Campbell, Calderbank, Lyn) – 3:57.42
8. Isle of Man (Justice, Kinley, Allen, Watterson) – 4:03.32

Australia roared to a brand new Games document of three:40.46, however they didn’t have all of it their very own approach with South Africa main for almost 300 meters because of Pieter Coetze‘s blistering leadoff leg.

South Africa held on for silver, whereas Duncan Scott did what Duncan Scott does and ran swimmers down on the anchor, catapulting Scotland into bronze. England, who had been the favourite for silver, had been by no means actually within the race and completed a distant fifth.

Backstroke

Pieter Coetze determined that one Commonwealth Games document wasn’t sufficient for tonight, having lowered the 100 again mark by almost a second with a 52.20 within the particular person semi-finals, and shaved one other two tenths of a second off to go 51.98 right here.

That ties for the Seventeenth-fastest swim in historical past, and is Coetze’s second-fastest swim ever behind the 51.85 he swam for gold on the World Championships final summer time.

Matt Ward for Scotland and Jamaica’s Collin McKenzie had been the one different male leadoffs. Ward swam 53.55 for his second-fastest swim ever, 0.04 seconds sooner than he was individually earlier tonight, whereas McKenzie sliced 0.16 seconds off his earlier finest in 56.82.

Kylie Masse had the sting on Iona Anderson this time, after being relegated to silver within the particular person 100 again behind the Australian. They had been the one two feminine leadoffs beneath 1:00, with Lottie Cullen touching in 1:00.87 forward of England’s Lauren Cox (1:00.99) and the Isle of Man’s Ella Justice (1:03.36), all three lacking their lifetime bests.

Breaststroke

Six out of eight nations went with a male breaststroker, with Sam Williamson backing up his 100 breast title with the quickest break up within the discipline. He break up 58.81, 0.36 seconds sooner than the 59.17 he swam for gold.

Bronze medalist Adam Ramsay-Peaty break up 59.33, slower than the 59.17 he swam within the semi-finals however sooner than his 59.65 from the ultimate. He went out onerous in 26.82, however Williamson outsplit him by seven tenths of a second on the second 50.

Oliver Dawson and Michael Houlie had been additionally beneath 1:00, with the South African persevering with his development from the person occasion and going out in a speedy 26.12, earlier than closing in 33.53 for a 59.65 break up to maintain South Africa within the lead by over six seconds. Adam Bradley clocked 1:01.18 for Northern Ireland and Kito Campbell was 1:03.10, over a second slower than he was within the particular person semi-finals.

Angharad Evans break up her third 1:04-point of the season with a 1:04.52, preserving Scotland forward of Australia on the midway level. Despite the prevailing knowledge on this relay being to swim a male breaststroker, Evans has been so good over the past 12 months that there was no debate about her inclusion right here, and she or he delivered a key break up in the direction of Scotland’s eventual bronze medal.

Butterfly

Matt Temple obtained his revenge on Canada’s Josh Liendo on the fly leg, outsplitting the person 100 fly champion by six tenths of a second. Temple’s break up was his quickest ever, overtaking the 50.10 he swam on the 2023 World Championships, and makes him the #7 performer all-time.

Liendo, who beat Temple by 0.01 seconds individually, was 50.63 for Canada to overlook his best-ever break up from the 2025 World Championships by a second. He was two tenths slower than he was to win the person remaining.

Ed Mildred recovered from a disappointing particular person efficiency to separate 51.09, two tenths sooner than the 51.30 he clocked within the semi-final however simply off his flat begin better of 51.02. He moved England up from sixth to 4th on his leg.

Matt Hamilton, who has set a pair of Irish junior data within the 100 fly this week with swims of 52.75 and 52.62, was sooner than each of these with a 52.42 to maneuver Northern Ireland from seventh to fifth, with Peter Allen‘s 55.75 break up simply over half a second off his better of 55.08.

Erin Gallagher shot out to a 25.91 opening 50, and whereas she tightened up in the direction of the tip of her leg she stored South Africa within the entrance two on this race and was simply 0.01 seconds slower than she was to win bronze individually.

Keanna MacInnes, who beat Gallagher for silver within the particular person 100 fly, 57.33 to 57.39, was a bit slower with a 57.60 however needed to deal with the waves of Matt Temple on one aspect and Josh Liendo on the opposite. Jamaica’s Jessica Calderbank was almost a second forward of her semi-final time of 1:01.31 with a 1:00.57.

Freestyle

Only two groups put a person on the anchor leg, however for Scotland that paid off as Duncan Scott break up 48.03, his slowest break up of the meet up to now, to carry them house for bronze. He had break up 47.48 within the males’s 4×100 free and 47.66 within the combined 4×100 free relays. The Isle of Man’s Joel Watterson break up 51.57 as the opposite male anchor.

Meg Harris had one other blistering break up for Australia, a tenth slower than the 52.03 she break up within the combined free relay, as she takes over anchor duties from Mollie O’Callaghan. Aimee Canny was seven tenths of a second sooner than her flat begin finest for South Africa in 53.58 as they held on for silver in a brand new African document.

Freya Colbert was 4 seconds off the lead when she dived in, and break up a 54.18 for England that was three quarters of a second slower than the anchor leg of 53.41 she posted within the combined free relay. Grace Davison had her quickest break up of the meet for Northern Ireland in 54.63, however was two tenths slower than her Irish document of 54.45.

Ella Jansen break up 54.84, beneath her flat begin better of 55.27, whereas Sabrina Lyn was almost a second sooner than the 57.69 she clocked this morning for Jamaica with a 56.93.