Swimming

With her three Commonwealth Games gold medals in Birmingham so far, Emma McKeon has become the most successful Comm Games athlete of all-time - in addition to being Australia’s most successful Olympian.

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Wins in the women's 50m freestyle, mixed 4x100m freestyle relay and the women's 4x100m freestyle relay have taken her personal historical Comm Games gold tally to an unprecedented 11 medals. Emma has accumulated 27 medals from two Olympic Games (five gold, two silver, four bronze) and three Commonwealth Games appearances (11 gold, one silver, four bronze) to date.

Tokyo 2020 Olympians Madi Wilson, Kiah Melverton, Mollie O'Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus set a World Record in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay. Their time of 7:39.29 was more than 12 seconds ahead of their next closest rivals Canada.

In the men’s 200m breaststroke Zac Stubblety-Cook’s gold medal completes a rare feat, as he has become the current Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion in the event.

Australia had a clean sweep of the podium positions in the women's 200m freestyle (Ariarne – gold, Mollie – silver and Madi – bronze), the men's 400m freestyle (Elijah Winnington – gold, Sam Short – silver and Mack Horton – bronze) and the women's 50m freestyle (Emma – gold, Meg Harris – silver and Shayna Jack – bronze).

The swimming continues from 7:30pm AEST tonight live and free on 7plus, where replays are also available.

Rugby 7s

The Aussie women’s Sevens sit atop of the Commonwealth as champions, marking the first time an Australia men’s or women’s rugby 7s team has won gold at the Commonwealth Games.

Their 22-12 defeat of Fiji in the gold medal match was reminiscent of the performances which underpinned their highly successful season in the 2022 World Rugby Sevens Series, who also won gold at Rio 2016.

A fast start from the Aussies, including two tries from Faith Nathan, saw them take a 17-0 lead into the half-time break on Fiji.

It was a much different tale from Australia’s semi-final against New Zealand, where a tight and tense finish saw the Aussies prevail 17-12. After trailing 12-5 at half-time, Maddison Levi scored two of her three tries in the second half. Some clutch team defence in the dying moments held our Trans-Tasman rivals out.

On the men’s side there was heartbreak in the semi-finals against South Africa (12-24), who went on to win the competition, and New Zealand (12-26) in the bronze medal match saw Australia finish fourth.

Replays are available on 7plus.

Cycling - Track

At the track on Sunday night in Birmingham it was a gold rush for Australia, with four gold medals and a bronze secured on the second day of track cycling at the Comm Games.

Kristina Clonan won the women’s 500m time trial in a Commonwealth Games record time of 33.234, a record which had stood since fellow Queenslander Anna Meares set it (33.435) at Glasgow 2014. She edged out Tokyo 2020 women’s sprint Olympic champion Kelsey Mitchell by 0.060 of a second.

Georgia Baker is now the Commonwealth Champion in the women’s 25km points race, having won five of the 10 sprints to blitz the field in the 100-lap event.

Matthew Richardson finished the wonderful night for Australia by winning the men’s sprint final, defeating Trinidad and Tobago's Nicholas Paul.

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Gymnastics

Georgia Godwin has gone one better than her silver at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, bringing home gold for Australia in the women’s artistic gymnastics all-around final.

Consistency across all four apparatus was key for the 24-year-old to score 53.500, ahead of Ondine Achampong (ENG) 53.000 and Emma Spence (CAN) 52.350.

A month ago Georgia had expressed doubts on competing in Birmingham due to an ankle injury. She now also holds a silver medal from the women’s team final – competing alongside Emily Whitehead, Romi Brown, Breanna Scott and Kate McDonald.

Replays are available on 7plus.

Athletics

London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympian Jess Stenson (nee Trengrove) took out the gold in the women’s marathon in Birmingham.

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The triumph was all the more special as her two-year-old Billy and husband Dylan were there at the finish line.

Matthew Hauser won Australia’s first medal of the Games with bronze in the men’s sprint triathlon. Also in the triathlon Jake Birtwhistle, Natalie Van Coevorden, Sophie Linn and Matthew were awarded bronze in the mixed team relay.

Paddle - Canoe & Kayak

Jess Fox has successfully defended her extreme slalom world champion status at the 2022 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg, Germany.

She is the first woman to become a back-to-back extreme slalom world champion. The event will make its debut at Paris 2024.

“It’s been an amazing weekend here in Augsburg and I can’t quite believe I managed to pull that off in extreme and to back up the world title,” Jess said.

The result carries extra significance for the Fox family, as her father Richard Fox also won at the world championships in Augsburg in 1985.

“I’m so pleased with this and so grateful to become world champion on the same course as my dad in 1985. I finally got it which is very cool and I can’t thank everyone enough for the support.”

In the women's K1 and C1 Jess claimed silver medals.

“For the kayak and the canoe, it was always going to be really tough to beat the Germans on their home course and I wanted to give it the best shot I could. I’m really pleased with the way I raced and I enjoyed every second out here on the water.”

Tennis

Alex de Minaur has won the sixth ATP title of his career, taking out the singles at the Atlanta Open on the weekend.

Back where he won the trophy in 2019, Alex only needed straight sets to overcome Jenson Brooksby (USA) 6-3 6-3 in a tight, 91-minute match.

Over in the doubles, Nick Kyrgios and Thanasis Kokkinakis also became Atlanta Open champions against fellow Aussies Jason Kubler and John Peers 7-6 7-5 in the final.

The results are a welcome boost for the players as they prepare for the US Open, which gets underway at the end of August.

Weekend Wrap: Hot start for Olympians in Birmingham and Alex de Minaur wins ATP title