🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 Australia’s swimmers have begun their Commonwealth Games campaign with a major bang on a golden opening night. | tomdecent
, Timothy Hodge and Zac Stubblety-Cook all won individual gold medals before Australia’s mixed 100m freestyle relay team made it a fifth first place on Friday night in Birmingham.A haul of five golds, four silvers and two bronze medals in the pool catapulted Australia to outright top of the overall Games medal tally after day one with eight gold medals, five clear of New Zealand.
Australia went 1-2-3 in two of the first three events on Friday, with Winnington edging out teammates Sam Short and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton to make it a trifecta of smiling athletes in gold jackets arm-in-arm on the podium. “It was really tough coming off the back of Tokyo. I almost wanted to quit the sport. I decided to keep going, and I put myself and my mindset in the right spot to achieve what I’ve achieved this year.”“I still believe I can be faster,” Horton said. “If I didn’t believe I could be faster I probably wouldn’t still be swimming to be honest.”
Meanwhile, it was far from a walk in the park for reigning Olympic champion Stubblety-Cook but a calm final 50 metres was enough to see overcome England’s James Wilby in the final stages by 0.52 seconds at the final touch, just outside his own world record set at the Australian trials.
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