2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
- Friday, July 29 – Wednesday, August 3, 2022
- Birmingham, England
- Sandwell Aquatic Center
- Start Times
- Prelims: 10:30 am local / 5:30 am ET
- Finals: 7:00 pm local / 2:00 pm ET
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Event Schedule
- Entry List (PDF)
- Live Results
The second morning session of the 2022 Commonwealth Games only features six events, but one of those is the men’s 100-meter breaststroke, where all eyes will be on world record holder Adam Peaty‘s long-awaited return to the pool.
The greatest short-distance breaststroker in history took a break from racing after he defended his 100 breast Olympic title last summer in Tokyo. Peaty appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, a UK reality competition show, where he reportedly suffered a minor ankle injury. Then in May, he revealed that he fractured a bone in his foot, sidelining him for six weeks.
Forced to watch as his world titles were taken from him last month in Budapest, Peaty says he has gained new motivation since his last major international meet.
“These last few months when I haven’t had the smoothest rides, I’ve had things taken away from me,” the 27-year-old Englishman told The Herald Scotland. “I saw my World Championship titles being taken away without any control over that, and that’s given me a new lease on life, a hunger that I was missing.”
Saturday will give us our first glimpse at whether Peaty is really back and better than ever in home waters.
Other prelims action includes defending Olympic champion Tom Dean in the men’s 200 freestyle against fellow Brit Duncan Scott. In the women’s 50 free, defending Olympic champion Emma McKeon is up against another Aussie sprint star in Shayna Jack, who crushed a 24.14 at Australian Trials before pulling out of Worlds with a broken hand.
There’s also a showdown in the women’s 100 backstroke between Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown and Kylie Masse, as the Commonwealth Games record holder from Canada will be looking to avenge her .25-second loss to the Aussie in Tokyo. Scott owns the top time this year among men’s 400 IM contestants (4:09.18, sixth in the world this year), while Australian 4×100 free relay team may need to lower its own Commonwealth Games record of 3:12.72 from 2018 in order to hold off England.
Men’s 200 Free Prelims
- CG Record: 1:44.71, Ian Thorpe (AUS), 2002
- Elijah Winnington, Australia, 1:46.87
- Duncan Scott, Scotland, 1:47.16
- Tom Dean, England, 1:47.19
- Mack Horton, Australia, 1:47.37
- Matthew Richards, Wales, 1:47.59
- Calum Jarvis, Wales, 1:48.22
- Matt Sates, South Africa, 1:48.25
- Joe Litchfield, England, 1:48.44
Fresh off Friday’s 400 free title, Elijah Winnington won the third 200 free heat and secured the top qualifying spot as the only swimmer sub-1:47 in the morning heats, leading a pack featuring Olympic champ Tom Dean. The 22-year-old Winnington was only about a second slower than his personal best from Worlds last month, so we could see another PB tonight. Second-seeded Duncan Scott is in good position to medal again after taking home a bronze medal back in 2018. A pair of Welsh freestylers made the final between Matthew Richards (No. 5 seed) and Calum Jarvis (No. 6 seed).
Women’s 50 Free Prelims
- CG Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell (AUS), 2018
- Shayna Jack, Australia, 24.31
- Emma McKeon, Australia, 24.52
- Meg Harris, Australia, 24.57
- Anna Hopkin, England, 24.77
- Emma Chelius, South Africa, 25.11
- Danielle Hill, Northern Ireland, 25.29
- Isabella Hindley, England, 25.31
- Olivia Nel, South Africa, 25.40
- Anna Hadjiloizou, Cyprus, 25.44
- Erin Gallagher, South Africa, 25.54
- Cherelle Thompson, Trinidad and Tobago, 25.64
- Xiang Qi Amanda Lim, Singapore, 25.68
- Maddy Moore, Bermuda, 25.85
- Emma Russell, Scotland, 25.87
- Mackenzie Headley, Jamaica, 25.95
- Evie Davis, Scotland, 26.01
The Aussies finished 1-2-3 here as Shayna Jack emphatically returned from a broken hand by going more than two-tenths of a second faster than the field. We’ll see how much more defending Olympic champ Emma McKeon has left in the tank tonight. 20-year-old Meg Harris was just off her personal-best 24.38 from last month that earned her bronze at Worlds.
Men’s 100 Breast Prelims
- CG Record: 58.59, Adam Peaty (ENG), 2018
- Adam Peaty, England, 59.92
- Sam Williamson, Australia, 1:00.16
- Zac Stubblety-Cook, Australia, 1:00.18
- James Wilby, England, 1:00.62
- Archie Goodburn, Scotland, 1:00.92
- Joshua Yong, Australia, 1:00.93
- Ross Murdoch, Scotland, 1:01.10
- Brenden Crawford, South Africa, 1:01.11
- Craig Benson, Scotland, 1:01.14
- Maximillian Ang, Singapore, 1:01.54
- Greg Butler, England, 1:01.59
- Michael Houlie, South Africa, 1:01.62
- James Dergousoff, Canada, 1:01.79
- Kyle Booth, Wales, 1:02.00
- Jadon Wuilliez, Antigua, 1:02.38
- Panayiotis Panaretos, Cyprus, 1:02.83
World record holder Adam Peaty was the only swimmer sub-1:00 in his long-awaited return from injury, but Australia’s Sam Williamson wasn’t far behind with a new best time that shaved .01 seconds off his previous benchmark. Neither was Zac Stubblety-Cook, who was only about half a second off his personal best from Worlds last month. Adrian Robinson barely missed the final as the 17th qualifier, but he still lowered his own Botswana national record from 2019 by more than a second.
Women’s 100 Back Prelims
- CG Record: 58.63, Kylie Masse (CAN), 2018
- Kylie Masse, Canada, 58.93
- Kaylee McKeown, Australia, 59.58
- Medi Harris, Wales, 1:00.02
- Minna Atherton, Australia, 1:00.65
- Lauren Cox, England, 1:00.77
- Mary-Sophie Harvey, Canada, 1:00.98
- Rebecca Meder, South Africa, 1:01.78
- Danielle Hill, Northern Ireland, 1:01.85
- Cassie Wild, Scotland, 1:02.06
- Charlotte Evans, Wales, 1:02.31
- Holly McGill, Scotland, 1:02.41
- Katie Shanahan, Scotland, 1:02.86
- Tatiana Tostevin, Guernsey, 1:03.50
- Vanessa Hazel Ouwehand, New Zealand, 1:03.86
- Emma Harvey, Bermuda, 1:04.17
- Danielle Titus, Barbados
Defending champ Kylie Masse was the only swimmer sub-59 in the morning heats, crushing a huge swim just three-tenths of a second shy of her own Commonwealth Games record from 2018. Masse clocked a 58.39 at Worlds last month, so a new record could be coming soon for the top seed. Defending Olympic champ Kaylee McKeown was the only other swimmer sub-1:00 in a prelims that was without late scratch Mollie O’Callaghan. Northern Ireland 22-year-old Danielle Hill pulled off the 50 free / 100 back double, placing inside the top eight in both events.
Men’s 400 IM Prelims
- CG Record: 4:11.04, Daniel Wallace (SCO), 2014
- Lewis Clareburt, New Zealand, 4:17.72
- Brendon Smith, Australia, 4:18.32
- Matt Sates, South Africa, 4:19.04
- Collyn Gagne, Canada, 4:19.63
- Kieren Pollard, Australia, 4:19.64
- Se-Bom Lee, Australia, 4:19.66
- Duncan Scott, Scotland, 4:20.92
- Mark Szaranek, Scotland, 4:21.34
Duncan Scott held the fastest time this year coming into the meet, but on the back end of a tough 200 free / 400 IM double, he took the seventh seed. Lewis Clareburt looked eager to return to the podium after bringing home a bronze from the 2018 Commonwealth Games, cruising to a victory in the second heat. Brendon Smith won the first heat, and he’ll have two other Aussies (Kieren Pollard and Se-Bom Lee) joining him in tonight’s final.
Men’s 4×100 Free Relay Prelims
- CG Record: 3:12.72, AUS, 2018
- Australia, 3:15.64
- England, 3:16.93
- Wales, 3:18.69
- Canada, 3:20.24
- Singapore, 3:20.74
- South Africa, 3:24.68
- Isle of Man, 3:27.30
- Fiji, 3:32.18
Australia touched about a second ahead of England in a two-team battle for first place. Joe Litchfield (48.95) posted the only sub-49 split for England while the Aussies got a pair from Cody Simpson (48.86) and Flynn Southam (48.89), who clocked the fastest split in prelims.
Absolutely cannot believe that England, the host nation, had no representative in the men’s 400IM.
He was busy swimming at US Nationals.
I know. I mean why was there no replacement? Could easily have been.
I’m very keen on Emma v Shayna
No disrespect, but I’m sort of amazed to see the Isle of Man, population 84,069 according to Wikipedia, has its own team.
The Channel Islands have smaller populations as do some Caribbean islands or Norfolk Island and they have representation at these events. 95% of the time they do just make up the numbers but occaisionally they do produce someone who is good enough to make a GBR team.
In IOM’s case, they had a female swimmer (Alexandra Jackson) who not only made the GBR team for Mexico City in 1968 but made the final of 100free & 4×100 then won bronze in 200free at 1970 CommGames.
Thank you for that; interesting. But you’d expect all of these small places to occasionally come up with a good swimmer or two. The Faroe Islands, population 54k, recently had a world class male distance freestyler (sorry, drawing a blank on his name); and the Cayman Islands, pop. 71k, recently had the Fraser brothers. I’m more amazed that the Isle of Man would have four separate men who could average under 52 seconds for a 100 meter free relay leg. Adjusting for population, the US would have to have roughly 17,000 male freestylers that fast to have proportional representation. Wondering if the Isle of Man has a swimming tradition the way that, say, Iceland has a strongman tradition.
It’s not uncommon for smaller nations to focus their efforts on individual sports rather than team sports with their elite athlete investments. It’s a lot more likely, as you said, for a small nation to come up with one or two great swimmers a generation than it is to come up with 18 great cricket players.
So much of it comes down to where countries invest their resources. If swimming were a top 3 sport in America, where the money existed for that many to continue swimming into adulthood, and where there was more attraction for the country’s top athletes, there probably would be 17,000 male freestylers who could go under 52. But most of those 17,000 are playing football… Read more »
That has tended to be very much the case; some of the most noticeable cases has been with the West Indies/Caribbean where for the most part; the non-Olympic sport of cricket has been the most prominent sports and track & field the most notable Olympic sport.
People may recall the movie Cool Runnings where the Jamaican Olympic official told them; we only back 2 sports; athletics and boxing. Whilst a work of fiction; it was true for the time. Since then we have, of course, seen some very distinguished swimmers from the Caribbean with Alia Atkinson (JAM) & Dylan Carter (TRI) who have benefitted from swimming in the NCAA system.
To further answer HO; these smaller entities can also be… Read more »
Charlotte Atkinson last games made 100/200 fly finals too. Womens 4×1 medley was in final last games too
Mens 4×1 free this morning broke the IOM record by 10s (last record set in Glasgow 2014) and could go faster tonight
Isle of Man has Mark Cavendish … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cavendish
And Peter Kennaugh – Olympic and world championship gold medalist in cycling
Walmart version of U.S Olympic team trials
Yet you are watching?
The American trolls are still here I see
American champs posting some impressive times atm – I don’t think.
Perhaps Comm Games need to have some strange ‘time trial event’s…
Is there anything sadder than being bad at trolling?
So are the 25-yard pools the dollar general of American swimming?
Does Duncan try this dirty double tonight?
I assume so since Scotland scratched the men’s 400 free relay probably because Duncan wasn’t available because of his double and I mean why would he swim prelims of both events if he wasn’t gonna at least attempt to swim finals of both events.
I know SCM is a different beast but he showed he could win multiple events in a short period of time during ISL. he can definitely do it! It probably helps that he could cruise prelims in the 400 IM.
Jheez that did not look very sharp from Peaty there. Surely vulnerable here?
Dawg he busted started actually kicking like 2 weeks ago. I’m sure he was aware it was a prelim swim and did exactly what he needed to do. Certainly more vulnerable, but I think he has a lot more in the tank
47.8 for Flynn – That’s why we don’t extrapolate too much from first swims!
Yeah i was pretty surprised at Flynn’s time last night. I hoped it was just first ever international swim jitters, and it looks like it was. Hopefully he’ll be in the final
100 breast results are showing a heats result I think. Not the overall top 16.
Yes, it is the heat 5 results. ZSC through in 3rd, Wilby 4th, Murdoch 5th and Yong 6th