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Australian Men finally get Gold in the pool

Matthew Welsh, Brenton Rickard, Michael Klim and Eamon Sullivan have finally won Australia a gold medal in the men’s pool events in the Men’s 4×100m Medley Relay in a new Commonwealth Games Record. Christopher Cook, Ross Davenport, Liam Tancock and Matthew Bowe won the silver medal for England and Todd Cooper, Kristopher Gilchrist, Craig […]

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Australia Smash World Record to take Gold in Women’s 4×100m Medley Relay

Australia’s Sophie Edington, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper and Lisbeth Lenton have broken the world record by more than a second to win the Women’s 4×100m Medley Relay to take the Gold Medal. Silver winners were Terri Dunning, Kate Haywook, Melanie Marshall and Francesca Halsall from England and the Bronze medal winners were Audrey Lacroix, […]

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Wales Win Gold in Men’s 1500m Freestyle

David Davies from Wales has won the Gold medal in the Men’s 1500m Freestyle. Andrew Hurd from Canada has won the silver medal and Hercules Prinsloo from South Africa has won the Bronze medal.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Australia win Gold, Bronze in Women’s 400m Individual Medley

Stephanie Rice has won the Gold medal in the Women’s 400m Individual Medley with team mate Jennifer Reilly winning the bronze medal. Rebecca Cooke from England take the silver medal.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Canada Win Gold in Men’s 200m Breaststroke

Canada’s Michael Brown has won the Gold medal in the Men’s 200m Breaststroke with Australian’s Brenton Rickard and Jim Piper taking the Silver and Bronze Medals positions.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Australia win Gold, Silver in Women’s 200m Butterfly

Jessicah Schipper has won Gold for Australia in the Women’s 200m Butterfly. Team Mate Felicity Galvez has won the silver medal and Terri Dunning from England has won the bronze.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

South Africa win Gold in Men’s 50m Freestyle

Roland Schoeman has won the Gold medal for South Africa in the Men’s 50m Freestyle. Brent Hayden from Canada has won the silver and Brett Hawke has won the bronze for Australia.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Australia win Gold, Silver in Women’s 200m Butterfly

Jessicah Schipper has added another Gold Medal to her haul for Australia in the Women’s 200m butterfly with team mate Felicity Galvez taking the silver medal. Terri Dunning from England took home the bronze medal.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Gregor Tait adds another Gold to Scotlands Swimming Tally

Scotland’s Gregor Tait has won the Gold medal for Scotland in the Men’s 200m Individual Medley. Dean Kent from New Zealand has won the Silver and Brian Johns has won the bronze medal for Canada.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

England win Gold in Men’s 100m Backstroke

Liam Tancock has broken the Commonwealth Games Record in a time of 54.53 to win the Gold Medal for England in the Men’s 100m Backstroke. Australian Matthew Welsh won the silver medal while Gregor Tait from Scotland took home the Bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Australia go 1, 2 and 3 in the Women’s 50m Backstroke

Sophie Edington, Giaan Rooney and Tayliah Zimmer have added another clean sweep of the medals for Australia in the Women’s 50m Backstroke.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Leisel Jones smashes World Record to claim gold in Women’s 100m Breaststroke

Australia’s Leisel Jones has won the Gold medal in a World Record time of 1:05.09 in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke. Fellow team mate Jade Edmistone has claimed the silver and Kirsty Balfour from Scotland has won the bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

McClatchey win’s another Gold for Scotland

Caitlin McClatchey has won the Gold in the Women’s 400m Freestyle Final for Scotland with Joanne Jackson from England taking the silver and Bronte Barratt from Australia taking the bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Australia take clean sweep in Women’s 50m Freestyle

Lisbeth Lenton, Jodie Henry and Alice Mills have dominated once again in the pool winning the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for Australia in the Women’s 50m Freestyle.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Australia Win Gold in Women’s 200m Backstroke

Australia’s Joanna Fargus has won the gold in the Women’s 200m Backstroke. England’s Melanie Marshall has won the Silver medal and New Zealand’s Hannah McLean has won the bronze medal.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

England take Gold, Silver in Men’s 50m Breaststroke

Christopher Cook has won the Gold medal in the Men’s 50m Breaststroke final for England while team mate Darren Mew has won the silver medal. Brenton Rickard has won the bronze medal for Australia.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Papua New Guinea Win Gold in Men’s 100m Butterfly

Ryan Pini has won Papua New Guinea’s first Gold medal at the XVIII Commonwealth Games in the Men’s 100m Butterfly. Australia’s Michael Klim won the Silver medal and New Zealand’s Moss Burmester who won the 200m Butterfly gold takes the bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Scotland take Gold, Silver in Men’s 400m Individual Medley

David Carry and Euan Dale have won the Gold and Silver medals for Scotland in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley. Australia’s Travis Nederpelt has finished third to claim the bronze.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

England win Gold in Women’s 800m Freestyle

Rebecca Cooke has won the Gold Medal for England in the Women’s 800m Freestyle. The Silver medal went to Melissa Gorman from Australia and the bronze, to Brittany Reimer from Canada.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

England win Gold in Men’s 100m Freestyle

In the event that was missing Ian Thorpe, the Australian men again failed to make the medals with the 3 guys only making 5, 6 and 7. England’s Simon Burnett took the gold while South Africa took Silver and Bronze thanks to Ryk Neethling and Roland Schoeman.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006