Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in the Gold Coast, Australia from 5 to 10 April.^[1][2] A total of 50 events were scheduled. Of the 50, 38 were for able-bodied athletes (19 per gender). The remaining 12 were for para sport athletes (six per gender).

Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	5–10 April 2018
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Schedule

H Heats ½ Semifinals F Final M = Morning session (starting at 10:30), E = Evening session (starting at 19:30) Men Date → Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7 Sun 8 Mon 9 Tue 10 Event ↓ M E M E M E M E M E M E 50 m freestyle H ½ F 100 m freestyle H ½ F 200 m freestyle H F 400 m freestyle H F 1500 m freestyle F 50 m backstroke H ½ F 100 m backstroke H ½ F 200 m backstroke H F 50 m breaststroke H ½ F 100 m breaststroke H ½ F 200 m breaststroke H F 50 m butterfly H ½ F 100 m butterfly H ½ F 200 m butterfly H F 200 m individual medley H F 400 m individual medley H F 4×100 m freestyle relay H F 4×200 m freestyle relay F 4×100 m medley relay H F 50 m freestyle S7 H F 100 m freestyle S9 H F 200 m freestyle S14 H F 100 m backstroke S9 H F 100 m breaststroke SB8 H F 200 m individual medley SM8 H F Women Date → Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7 Sun 8 Mon 9 Tue 10 Event ↓ M E M E M E M E M E M E 50 m freestyle H ½ F 100 m freestyle H ½ F 200 m freestyle H F 400 m freestyle H F 800 m freestyle H F 50 m backstroke H ½ F 100 m backstroke H ½ F 200 m backstroke H F 50 m breaststroke H ½ F 100 m breaststroke H ½ F 200 m breaststroke H F 50 m butterfly H ½ F 100 m butterfly H ½ F 200 m butterfly H F 200 m individual medley H F 400 m individual medley H F 4×100 m freestyle relay F 4×200 m freestyle relay F 4×100 m medley relay F 50 m freestyle S8 H F 100 m freestyle S9 H F 100 m backstroke S9 H F 100 m breaststroke SB9 H F 50 m butterfly S7 H F 200 m individual medley SM10 H F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia*	28	21	24	73
2	England	9	10	5	24
3	South Africa	6	3	3	12
4	Canada	3	11	6	20
5	New Zealand	2	0	1	3
6	Scotland	1	4	4	9
7	Wales	1	1	3	5
8	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	0	1
10	Singapore	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		50	52	47	149

Medallists

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Ben Proud  England	21.35	Brad Tandy  South Africa	21.81	Cameron McEvoy  Australia	21.92
100 m freestyle details	Duncan Scott  Scotland	48.02	Chad le Clos  South Africa Kyle Chalmers  Australia	48.15	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
200 m freestyle details	Kyle Chalmers  Australia	1:45.56	Mack Horton  Australia	1:45.89	Duncan Scott  Scotland	1:46.30
400 m freestyle details	Mack Horton  Australia	3:43.76	Jack McLoughlin  Australia	3:45.21	James Guy  England	3:45.32
1500 m freestyle details	Jack McLoughlin  Australia	14:47.09	Daniel Jervis  Wales	14:48.67	Mack Horton  Australia	14:51.05
50 m backstroke details	Mitch Larkin  Australia	24.68	Benjamin Treffers  Australia	24.84	Zac Incerti  Australia	25.06
100 m backstroke details	Mitch Larkin  Australia	53.18	Bradley Woodward  Australia	53.95	Markus Thormeyer  Canada	54.14
200 m backstroke details	Mitch Larkin  Australia	1:56.10	Bradley Woodward  Australia	1:56.57	Josh Beaver  Australia	1:57.04
50 m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	26.58	Adam Peaty  England	26.62	James Wilby  England	27.37
100 m breaststroke details	Adam Peaty  England	58.84	James Wilby  England	59.43	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	59.44
200 m breaststroke details	James Wilby  England	2:08.05	Ross Murdoch  Scotland	2:08.32	Matt Wilson  Australia	2:08.64
50 m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	23.37	Dylan Carter  Trinidad and Tobago	23.67	Ryan Coetzee  South Africa	23.73
100 m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	50.65 GR	James Guy  England	51.31	Grant Irvine  Australia	51.50
200 m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	1:54.00 GR	David Morgan  Australia	1:56.36	Duncan Scott  Scotland	1:56.60
200 m individual medley details	Mitch Larkin  Australia	1:57.67 GR	Duncan Scott  Scotland	1:57.86	Clyde Lewis  Australia	1:58.18
400 m individual medley details	Clyde Lewis  Australia	4.13.12	Mark Szaranek  Scotland	4.13.72	Lewis Clareburt  New Zealand	4.14.42 NR
4×100 m freestyle relay details	Australia Cameron McEvoy (48.91) James Magnussen (48.09) Jack Cartwright (47.71) Kyle Chalmers (48.25) James Roberts[a]	3:12.96	England David Cumberlidge (49.28) Ben Proud (48.35) Jarvis Parkinson (49.28) James Guy (48.34) Elliot Clogg[a] Cameron Kurle[a]	3:15.25	Scotland Duncan Scott (48.54) Jack Thorpe (49.48) Kieran McGukin (49.19) Stephen Milne (48.65) Craig McLean[a] Scott McLay[a] Dan Wallace[a]	3:15.86
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Australia Alexander Graham (1:46.60) Kyle Chalmers (1:46.47) Elijah Winnington (1:45.97) Mack Horton (1:46.93)	7:05.97 GR	England Cameron Kurle (1:47.63) Nicholas Grainger (1:47.61) Jarvis Parkinson (1:48.09) James Guy (1:45.24)	7:08.57	Scotland Stephen Milne (1:48.62) Duncan Scott (1:44.82) Dan Wallace (1:48.69) Mark Szaranek (1:47.76)	7:09.89
4×100 m medley relay details	Australia Mitch Larkin (53.14) Jake Packard (59.29) Grant Irvine (51.36) Kyle Chalmers (47.25) Bradley Woodward[a] Matt Wilson[a] David Morgan[a] Jack Cartwright[a]	3:31.04 GR	England Luke Greenbank (54.61) Adam Peaty (57.64) James Guy (50.95) Ben Proud (47.93) Elliot Clogg[a] James Wilby[a] Jacob Peters[a] David Cumberlidge[a]	3:31.13	South Africa Calvyn Justus (55.79) Cameron van der Burgh (59.20) Chad le Clos (50.10) Brad Tandy (49.70) Martin Binedell[a] Michael Houlie[a] Ryan Coetzee[a]	3:34.79
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | ER European record | OC Oceania record CR Commonwealth record | GR Commonwealth Games record | WR World record | NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records.)

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Cate Campbell  Australia	23.78 CR, OC	Taylor Ruck  Canada Bronte Campbell  Australia	NR 24.26	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
100 m freestyle details	Bronte Campbell  Australia	52.27 GR	Cate Campbell  Australia	52.69	Taylor Ruck  Canada	53.08
200 m freestyle details	Taylor Ruck  Canada	1:54.81 CR	Ariarne Titmus  Australia	1:54.85	Emma McKeon  Australia	1:56.26
400 m freestyle details	Ariarne Titmus  Australia	4:00.93 GR, OC	Holly Hibbott  England	4:05.31	Ellie Faulkner  England	4:07.35
800 m freestyle details	Ariarne Titmus  Australia	8:20.02	Jessica Ashwood  Australia	8:27.60	Kiah Melverton  Australia	8:28.59
50 m backstroke details	Emily Seebohm  Australia	27.78	Kylie Masse  Canada	27.82	Georgia Davies  Wales	27.90
100 m backstroke details	Kylie Masse  Canada	58.63 GR	Emily Seebohm  Australia	58.66	Taylor Ruck  Canada	58.97
200 m backstroke details	Kylie Masse  Canada	2:05.98 GR	Taylor Ruck  Canada	2:06.42	Emily Seebohm  Australia	2:06.82
50 m breaststroke details	Sarah Vasey  England	30.60	Alia Atkinson  Jamaica	30.76	Leiston Pickett  Australia	30.78
100 m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	1:06.41 AF	Kierra Smith  Canada	1:07.05	Georgia Bohl  Australia	1:07.22
200 m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	2:22.02 AF	Molly Renshaw  England	2:23.28	Chloé Tutton  Wales	2:23.42
50 m butterfly details	Cate Campbell  Australia	25.59	Holly Barratt  Australia	25.67	Madeline Groves  Australia	25.69
100 m butterfly details	Emma McKeon  Australia	56.78 GR	Madeline Groves  Australia	57.19	Brianna Throssell  Australia	57.30
200 m butterfly details	Alys Thomas  Wales	2:05.45 GR	Laura Taylor  Australia	2:07.39	Emma McKeon  Australia	2:08.05
200 m individual medley details	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  England	2:09.80	Sarah Darcel  Canada	2:11.14	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson  Canada	2:11.74
400 m individual medley details	Aimee Willmott  England	4:34.90	Hannah Miley  Scotland	4:35.16	Blair Evans  Australia	4:38.23
4×100 m freestyle relay details	Australia (AUS) Shayna Jack (54.03) Bronte Campbell (52.03) Emma McKeon (52.99) Cate Campbell (51.00)	3:30.05 WR	Canada (CAN) Alexia Zevnik (53.95) Kayla Sanchez (53.82) Penny Oleksiak (54.33) Taylor Ruck (51.82)	3:33.92	England (ENG) Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (54.34) Freya Anderson (54.95) Anna Hopkin (53.82) Ellie Faulkner (55.29)	3:38.40
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Australia (AUS) Emma McKeon (1:56.62) Brianna Throssell (1:57.60) Leah Neale (1:58.23) Ariarne Titmus (1:55.59)	7:48.04 GR	Canada (CAN) Penny Oleksiak (1:58.03) Kayla Sanchez (1:59.30) Rebecca Smith (1:57.19) Taylor Ruck (1:55.14)	7:49.66	England (ENG) Ellie Faulkner (1:58.75) Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (1:57.07) Freya Anderson (2:00.41) Holly Hibbott (1:59.37)	7:55.60
4×100 m medley relay details	Australia (AUS) Emily Seebohm (59.52) Georgia Bohl (1:06.85) Emma McKeon (56.42) Bronte Campbell (51.57)	3:54.36 GR	Canada (CAN) Kylie Masse (59.02) Kierra Smith (1:06.68) Penny Oleksiak (56.86) Taylor Ruck (52.54)	3:55.10	Wales (WAL) Georgia Davies (1:00.34) Chloé Tutton (1:07.39) Alys Thomas (57.29) Kathryn Greenslade (55.73)	4:00.75
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | ER European record | OC Oceania record CR Commonwealth record | GR Commonwealth Games record | WR World record | NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records.)

Para events

Men's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle S7 details	Matthew Levy  Australia	28.60	Christian Sadie  South Africa	29.65	Toh Wei Soong  Singapore	29.83
100 m freestyle S9 details	Timothy Disken  Australia	56.07	Lewis White  England	56.77	Brenden Hall  Australia	57.90
200 m freestyle S14 details	Thomas Hamer  England	1:55.88 WR	Liam Schluter  Australia	1:56.23	Daniel Fox  Australia	1:58.26
100 m backstroke S9 details	Brenden Hall  Australia	1:04.73	Timothy Hodge  Australia	1:04.99	Logan Powell  Australia	1:05.29
100 m breaststroke SB8 details	Timothy Disken  Australia	1:12.42	Timothy Hodge  Australia	1:15.80	Blake Cochrane  Australia	1:18.75
200 m individual medley SM8 details	Jesse Aungles  Australia	2:30.77	Blake Cochrane  Australia	2:32.72	Philippe Vachon  Canada	2:34.03
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | ER European record | OC Oceania record CR Commonwealth record | GR Commonwealth Games record | WR World record | NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records.)

Women's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle S8 details	Lakeisha Patterson  Australia	30.14	Morgan Bird  Canada	32.03	Abigail Tripp  Canada	32.49
100 m freestyle S9 details	Lakeisha Patterson  Australia	1:03.02	Alice Tai  England	1:03.07	Ellie Cole  Australia	1:03.36
100 m backstroke S9 details	Alice Tai  England	1:08.77	Ellie Cole  Australia	1:11.51	Ashleigh McConnell  Australia	1:15.93
100 m breaststroke SB9 details	Sophie Pascoe  New Zealand	1:18.09	Paige Leonhardt  Australia	1:18.81	Madeleine Scott  Australia	1:19.98
50 m butterfly S7 details	Ellie Robinson  England	35.72	Sarah Mehain  Canada	37.69	Bronze not awarded
200 m individual medley SM10 details	Sophie Pascoe  New Zealand	2:27.72	Aurélie Rivard  Canada	2:31.79	Katherine Downie  Australia	2:31.81
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | ER European record | OC Oceania record CR Commonwealth record | GR Commonwealth Games record | WR World record | NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records.)

Records

Date	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation	Record
5 April	Women's 200m freestyle final	(same)	1:54.81	Taylor Ruck	Canada	CR, GR
	Men's 200m freestyle S14 final	(same)	1:55.88	Thomas Hamer	England	WR
	Women's 100m butterfly semifinal	(same)	57.22	Madeline Groves	Australia	GR
	Women's 4 × 100m freestyle relay final	(same)	3:30.05	Shayna Jack (54.03) Bronte Campbell (52.03) Emma McKeon (52.99) Cate Campbell (51.00)	Australia	WR
6 April	Women's 100m backstroke heats	(same)	58.91	Emily Seebohm	Australia	GR
			58.70	Kylie Masse	Canada	GR
	Men's 4 × 100m freestyle relay heats	(same)	3.12.72	Cameron McEvoy (48.63) James Magnussen (47.87) Jack Cartwright (47.74) James Roberts (48.48)	Australia	GR
	Women's 50m freestyle semifinal	(same)	23.88	Cate Campbell	Australia	GR
	Men's 100m breaststroke semifinal	(same)	58.59	Adam Peaty	England	GR
	Women's 100m backstroke semifinal	(same)	58.66	Kylie Masse	Canada	GR
	Women's 100m butterfly final	(same)	56.78	Emma McKeon	Australia	GR
7 April	Men's 200m butterfly final	(same)	1:54.00	Chad le Clos	South Africa	GR
	Men's 100m breaststroke final	Men's 50m breaststroke	26.74	Adam Peaty	England	GR
	Women's 50m freestyle final	(same)	23.78	Cate Campbell	Australia	CR, OC, GR
	Women's 100m backstroke final	(same)	58.63	Kylie Masse	Canada	GR
	Women's 4 × 200m freestyle relay final	(same)	7:48.04	Emma McKeon (1:56.62) Brianna Throssell (1:57.60) Leah Neale (1:58.23) Ariarne Titmus (1:55.59)	Australia	GR
8 April	Women's 200m backstroke final	(same)	2:05.98	Kylie Masse	Canada	GR
	Women's 100m freestyle semifinal	(same)	52.64	Cate Campbell	Australia	GR
	Men's 50m breaststroke semifinal	(same)	26.49	Adam Peaty	England	GR
	Men's 4 × 200m freestyle relay final	(same)	7.05.97	Alexander Graham (1:46.60) Kyle Chalmers (1:46.47) Elijah Winnington (1:45.97) Mack Horton (1:46.93)	Australia	GR
9 April	Men's 50m freestyle heats	(same)	21.45	Ben Proud	England	GR
	Men's 50m freestyle semifinal	(same)	21.30	Ben Proud	England	GR, NR
	Women's 200m butterfly final	(same)	2:05.45	Alys Thomas	Wales	GR
	Women's 100m freestyle final	(same)	52.27	Bronte Campbell	Australia	GR
	Men's 100m butterfly final	(same)	50.65	Chad le Clos	South Africa	GR
10 April	Women's 400m freestyle final	(same)	4:00.93	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	OC, GR
	Men's 200m individual medley final	(same)	1:57.67	Mitch Larkin	Australia	GR
	Women's 4 × 100m medley relay final	(same)	3:54.36	Emily Seebohm (59.52) Georgia Bohl (1:06.85) Emma McKeon (56.42) Bronte Campbell (51.57)	Australia	GR
	Men's 4 × 100m medley relay final	(same)	3:31.04	Mitch Larkin (53.14) Jake Packard (59.29) Grant Irvine (51.36) Kyle Chalmers (47.25)	Australia	GR
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | ER European record | OC Oceania record CR Commonwealth record | GR Commonwealth Games record | WR World record | NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records.)

• Broken Records in Swimming

Participating nations

There are 47 participating nations in swimming with a total of 363 athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

•  Antigua and Barbuda (4)
•  Australia (70)
•  Bahamas (4)
•  Bangladesh (3)
•  Barbados (1)
•  Botswana (1)
•  Canada (36)
•  Cayman Islands (4)
•  Cook Islands (3)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  England (37)
•  Fiji (5)
•  Ghana (4)
•  Gibraltar (5)
•  Guernsey (3)
•  Guyana (2)
•  Grenada (2)
•  India (5)
•  Isle of Man (5)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Jersey (2)
•  Kenya (6)
•  Malaysia (7)
•  Mauritius (5)
•  Mozambique (5)
•  New Zealand (17)
•  Northern Ireland (9)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Papua New Guinea (4)
•  Saint Helena (5)
•  Saint Lucia (2)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4)
•  Samoa (3)
•  Scotland (25)
•  Seychelles (5)
•  Sierra Leone (2)
•  Singapore (5)
•  Solomon Islands (2)
•  South Africa (25)
•  Sri Lanka (6)
•  Tanzania (1)
•  Tonga (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  Tuvalu (1)
•  Uganda (2)
•  Wales (14)
•  Zambia (4)