2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
- Thursday, April 5th – Tuesday, April 10th (swimming)
- Optus Aquatic Centre, Gold Coast, Australia
- Prelims at 10:30am local (8:30pm previous night EDT)
- Finals at 7:30pm local (5:30am EDT)
- Official Commonwealth Games website
- Entries
- Results
We’re just over one day away from the 2018 Commonwealth Games hosted by Gold Coast, Australia, which means high-profile swimmers such as Cate Campbell, Kyle Chalmers, James Guy, Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, Alia Atkinson and more will be hitting the Optus Aquatic Centre pool in search of a shiny new hardware collection.
At the 2014 edition of the Games, England wound up on top of the overall medal table across all sports, holding 174 total medals to runner-up Australia’s total of 137. They were the only 2 nations to enter triple digits across all sports, with 3rd place Canada winding up with 82.
Within the sport of swimming specifically, Australia more than doubled its medal count ahead of any other nation, collecting 57 on the whole, with 19 of those being gold. England was next with 28 medals, including 10 gold, while Canada rounded out the top 3 with 4 gold.
The Aussies historically race at their best on their home soil, so look for Emily Seebohm, Mack Horton, Emma McKeon and others to drop some of the fastest times of their career. They are not only hoping to stand atop the podium in their events here, but the athletes are also competing for a chance to compete for their nation at the Pan Pacific Championships later this year.
Additionally, visiting swimmers, such as the aforementioned Peaty and South Africa’s Chad Le Clos are looking to make history, with the former seeking to extend his 4-year 100m breast winning streak while Le Clos’ quest is to become the winningest Commonwealth athlete ever.
Refresh yourself on the fields ready to rumble down under by taking a look at our event preview links below.
Men’s Event Previews
- Back Events
- Breast Events
- Fly Events
- Free Events
- IM Events
- Relays
Women’s Event Previews
- Back Events
- Breast Events
- Fly Events
- Free Events
- IM Events
- Relays
Women’s relay preview?
The games start in 12 mins where are the rest of the womens predictions?
Will they be streaming on YouTube as they did the previous games?
Or can we use a VPN to connect to Australian servers to watch? I am currently in China using VPN to connect to servers in Los Angeles to get American website content.
I am trying to connect to British servers and watched on the website of BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/live-guide
Some Sport history . In the 1st Empire Games in Hamilton Canada in 1930 , England topped with 62 medals & Australia got 9 .
By 1994 in Canada Australia had a 2000% increase in medals to 180+ whilst England merely doubled to 124 . Says a lot about the 2 nations in 3 generations .
But now they are not indicative of much but I hope everyone enjoys themselves & hopefully its the last one .
Don’t forget Canadians!! Expect to see some fantastic swims, particularly the HPC group from Ontario with Sanchez, Smith and Taylor Ruck!!! Keirra Smith has also been training with them!!! Penny and Masse (hopefully a WR!!) should have some fire swims and Caldwell swimming her last ever competitive meet. Have a feeling the Canadians are going to be the highlight of the meet. Like if ur Canadian
And jumping ahead, any retirements, particularly Aussies?
Hilary Caldwell, Olympic and LC World Championship bronze medalist in 2 bk
I wonder if we’ll see any WRs at the meet.
I think Kylie Masse may break her 100 back record. There are other backstrokers right there with her as well.
If Cate Campbell swam a WR in front of her home crowd, that would be thrilling too.
O I can’t tell you how much i would love to see Cate set a WR at home!
That would be pretty cool
Imagine Emma Mckeon got to Sjostrom’s 100 fly record, it takes an amazing swim, and she’d need to be at her best to drop 6-7 tenths or the men’s 100 free with Cam Macevoy and Chalmers??
Adam Peaty. ‘Nuff said
Cate will get the 50
I like that all the previews are now in one place, but am curious as to why no Canadians were mentioned in this article…
Rampant anti-Canadian bias by SwimSwam staff.
hahahaha