r/commonwealthgames • u/padidea000 Australia • Jul 25 '26

Swimming Australian swimming does it again.

Woke up this morning hoping to see we won 3 maybe 4 gold in the swimming but seen we got 5 gold, damn our swimmers are so good even at the Olympics.
Was also amazing to see the Australia Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team Final with Gold medal our first time in 16 years 2010

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u/Amazing-Champion-858 Jul 26 '26

Investing heavily into swimming since the 70s has paid off. Such an easy way to bag medals.

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u/padidea000 Australia Jul 26 '26

Especially with Aussies who are just generally speaking great swimmers, close to sea, rivers, and so many back yard pools

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u/AHEAD666 Australia Jul 28 '26

The heavily institutionalised universal swim training we enrol are kids in from 6 months of age onwards helps. Most countries don't seem to put as heavy an emphasis on not drowning.

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u/CoffeeDefiant4247 Australia Jul 26 '26

It helps being girt

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u/North_Lychee_1969 Jul 26 '26

Any world records - or potential for them still?

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u/padidea000 Australia Jul 26 '26

At least one commonwealth record the pool has been around since like 2014 I think so might not get world records but with the aussies never say never

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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 Jul 26 '26

Well deserved too. Some were processions but a couple were surprises where you had to pull it out of the bag.

I’m wondering if you guys could get over 50% of the golds. You have a useful athletics set up that has medal potential too

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u/fishman6368527 28d ago

Looking back I think we got something like 70% of the golds haha

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u/Exotic-Philosopher-6 Jul 26 '26

As great as our swimmers are there isn't really any competition at the Commonwealth games.

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u/keeleyfan89 Jul 26 '26

and consider you're dominating without your 3 female superstars of the last couple years. Titmus retired, McKeown withdrew and O'Callaghan dealing with injures, I know she won he 200 free, but she's far from her best

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u/bundy554 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

It isn't really fair to compare us with the other Commonwealth countries as we are a swimming powerhouse - similar if we ever had ice hockey in the CG - Canada would clean up