Emma McKeon's Birmingham gold medal haul has grown yet again, courtesy of a win in the 50m butterfly final at the Commonwealth Games.
Holly Barratt tied for second in the same race with South Africa's Erin Gallagher, both awarded silver medals.
McKeon has also qualified fastest for the 100m freestyle final scheduled for Wednesday morning AEST, alongside Shayna Jack and Mollie O'Callaghan.
Kaylee McKeown, Matt Levy and the men's 4x200m relay team also won gold medals on the fourth day of competition, with McKeown also taking silver in the women's 200m individual medley.
Kyle Chalmers won gold in the men's 100m freestyle, admitting in a post-swim interview that it was "hard to enjoy the moment" after a tense few days of conflict with Australian media.
Outside the pool, gymnast Georgia Godwin has added another gold and silver medal to her collection in Birmingham in the vault and uneven bars individual apparatus finals.
She has the opportunity for a sixth Games medal in the beam final on day five, before the rhythmic component of the gymnastics competition begins on Thursday.
Australia has also won its first Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo in two decades, with Tinka Easton defeating Canadian Kelly Deguchi in the women's 52kg final.
Brothers Josh and Nathan Katz won bronze in their respective divisions, with multiple Australians taking to the mat on day five.
Medals in cycling, weightlifting, lawn bowls and table tennis have helped lock in Australia's position at the top of the medal tally for another day — sitting 17 medals clear of second-placed England with 31 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze.
Look back at the action as it unfolded in our live blog.
Key events
- 🥇 Swimming: Australia wins the men's 4x200m freestyle relay final with a Games record
- 🥉 Judo: Bronze for both Katz brothers
- 🥇 Swimming: Emma McKeon wins another gold, Holly Barratt ties for silver in 50m butterfly
- 🥇 Swimming: Matt Levy successfully defends his 50m freestyle S7 title
- 🥇 Gymnastics: Another gold and a silver for Georgia Godwin
- 🥈 Swimming: Kaylee McKeown wins silver in 200m individual medley final
- 🥈 Weightlifting: Silver for Sarah Maureen Cochrane in women's 64kg final
- 🥇 Lawn bowls: Gold for Ellen Ryan in the women's singles!
- 🥉 Table tennis: Australia wins women's team bronze
- 🥈 Weightlifting: Aussie star controversially misses out on gold
- 🥈 Lawn bowls: Australia gets silver, just pipped to gold by England in men's triples
- 🥇 Swimming: Kaylee McKeown adds the 200m backstroke gold in a Games record
- 🥇 Swimming: Kyle Chalmers wins 100m freestyle, but says it's 'hard to enjoy the moment'
- 🥇 Track cycling: Australia wins gold and silver despite forced handlebar change
- 🥇 Judo: Gold for Tinka Easton — Australia's first in 20 years
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Live updates
By Kelsie Iorio
What to watch on day five
Bedtime again in Birmingham.
The swimming isn't over yet but we do shift to the next phase of the Games this evening and into tomorrow — enter athletics.
Here's what you can catch the Australians in (times below are in AEST):
- Swimming (heats tonight, finals start EARLY tomorrow — just after 4am)
- Athletics (it all begins from around 7pm tonight with names like Rohan Browning, Madison de Rozario, Brandon Starc, Matt Denny and heaps more all doing their thing)
- Netball (Australia plays Wales from 9pm)
- Boxing
- Beach volleyball (Clancy and Artacho del Solar's match starts around 11:30pm)
- Lawn bowls
- Gymnastics (it's the last of the apparatus finals — there's a full list of the Aussie competitors a few posts further down in the blog)
- Weightlifting
- Hockey (Hockeyroos play New Zealand from 6pm tonight)
That's it from us here on the blog today. Thanks again for joining us and we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning.
By Jon Healy
Non-binary wheelchair racer Robyn Lambird out to shatter misconceptions
“What happened to you?”
“Jesus can heal you.”
“Can you have sex?”
“You’re pretty for someone in a wheelchair.”
Believe it or not, these are all things Robyn Lambird says strangers have said to them, as Amanda Shalala writes...
By Kelsie Iorio
Hockey: Don't miss the Hockeyroos tonight
The women's side are also playing New Zealand in the pool stages of the competition and will be looking to continue their winning streak as we get to the pointy end of the competition.
By Jon Healy
Diamonds midcourt star under a cloud
The Australian netball team continued their winning ways against South Africa this morning, but it came at a cost.
Midcourter Paige Hadley left the game early, then was seen getting around with ice on her calf. Not a great sign.
Brittany Carter breaks down what that could mean for the side...
By Jon Healy
Godwin and Glaetzer show remarkable determination en route to gold
If you were looking for two examples of shutting out distractions and clearing hurdles, look no further that Aussie gymnast Georgia Godwin and cyclist Matt Glaetzer, as Amanda Shalala writes.
Godwin and Canada's Laurie Denommee finished on the same score after their two vaults.
But the Queenslander won on the tie-break rule, with the highest scoring single vault.
"Coming off of two days of comp, I am feeling it a little bit, so I just gave 110 per cent of what I had left into that first vault," she said.
And for Glaetzer, briefly putting aside the small matter of a fight with thyroid cancer after a 2019 diagnosis, these Games have seen him saddled with more than enough on-track challenges.
He started competition with gold in the men's team sprint, then was involved in a scary crash in the keirin, which threatened to end his campaign.
He was left fuming after being denied a bronze medal in the men's sprint upon review.
Then, to throw another spanner in the works, just hours before the men's 1000m time trial, AusCycling released a statement saying the Australians would have to use different handlebars, due to them being ruled unsafe.
So, among that dramatic backdrop, Glaetzer still somehow managed to summon a phenomenal performance to win the time trial, using equipment that would've added at least a second to his time.
By Kelsie Iorio
Hockey: Kookaburras get it done
And they make it look easy.
The Aussie men's side defeated New Zealand 7-2 in their pool match — they're up again early tomorrow morning (our time) against South Africa.
By Kelsie Iorio
Lawn bowls: Para-men's and women's pairs will play for gold,
Cheryl Lindfield and Serena Bonnell have a shot at a lawn bowls gold medal in the para-women's pairs after beating South Africa in the semi-final 19-12.
They'll play Scotland in the gold medal match tonight from around midnight AEST.
Damien Delgado and Chris Flavel will also play for gold early tomorrow morning, also against Scotland, after a 17-4 victory over England in their semi.
The para-mixed pairs team of Helen Boardman and Jake Fehlberg lost their last match against Scotland but won the one before against England. They play Wales next.
By Kelsie Iorio
Hockey: 6-2 in Australia's favour at the end of third quarter
Australia came here for a gold medal, and I know it's still early, but I think it's pretty unlikely they'll be leaving without one.
Nathan Ephraums and Aran Zalewski have added to the scoreline since the last update.
By Kelsie Iorio
Boxing: Charlie Senior might have lost his last match but no one else looks this cool
By Jon Healy
3x3 basketball: Aussies to play for bronze
A little earlier, Australia's women's 3x3 basketball team lost their semi-final against England 21-15.
That means Australia will face off against New Zealand, who lost to Canada in their semi, for the bronze.
That game is at 1.30am AEST tomorrow.
By Jon Healy
That wraps up the swimming program for this morning
To recap, five gold and two silver medals
Kaylee McKeown picked up one of each, with gold in the 200m backstroke and silver in the 200m individual medley less than an hour later.
Kyle Chalmers started the morning with gold in the 100m freestyle, while Emma McKeon continued her golden Games by winning the 50m butterfly final just ahead of teammate Holly Barratt.
We also saw Matt Levy win gold in the 50m freestyle S7 to cap off his remarkable career, and then the men's 4x200m freestyle team brought it home in a romp.
By Kelsie Iorio
Hockey: Australia up 4-1 over New Zealand just before half-time
It's still only the second quarter but Australia's dominant performance is continuing in this pool match against the Kiwis.
Jake Whetton, Jacob Anderson and Blake Govers have put points on the board so far. We'll keep you updated.
By Kelsie Iorio
Boxing: Billy McAllister out after fight called early
This is... quite gross.
Billy McAllister was progressing well in his match against Jerone Ennis but a nasty hit has opened up basically his entire eyebrow and ended the fight early.
It means the Jamaican takes the win.
They keep showing close-ups of it. I feel ill now.
There's a photo of it coming up.
Fair warning.
If you keep scrolling...
... you're gonna see it.
OK?
OK.
By Jon Healy
🥇 Swimming: Australia wins the men's 4x200m freestyle relay final with a Games record
Elijah Winnington, Flynn Southam, Zac Incerti and Mack Horton hit the water for the Aussie team.
The second leg from 17-year-old Southam was particularly impressive, seeing off a big challenge from South African great Chad le Clos and giving Incerti a body-length lead over Wales as he started the penultimate leg.
He turned that into an almost four-second lead over England by the time he handed over to Horton for the anchor and he powered home in a Commonwealth Games record time of 7:04.96.
English anchor swimmer Tom Dean got out of the pool before the final swimmer from Gibraltar had finished, but the English will keep their silver medal. Wales got bronze.
By Jon Healy
Swimming: Three Australians reach women's 100m breaststroke final
Chelsea Hodges, Jenna Strauch and Abbey Harkin will all swim in the final tomorrow, but they'll have a massive job to track down South African duo Lara van Niekerk and Tatjana Schoenmaker, who qualified fastest.
By Kelsie Iorio
🥉 Judo: Bronze for both Katz brothers
Joshua and Nathan Katz have both won bronze in the 60kg and 66kg judo divisions respectively.
Josh defeated Simon Zulu of Zambia and Nathan got the win over India's Jasleen Singh Saini in their bronze medal matches to lock in a podium finish for all three of our judo athletes today.
Fun fact: Team Australia has three lots of siblings on the team this Commonwealth Games! The Katz brothers, Madison and Teagan Levi in the rugby sevens and badminton players Angela and Jack Yu.
By Kelsie Iorio
Weighlifting: Kiana Rose Elliott just misses out on medal
Kiana Rose Elliott has finished fourth in the women's 71kg weightlifting final, falling short of a medal by just eight kilos.
England's Sarah Davies has won gold with a 229kg total, Alexis Ashworth of Canada got silver with 214kg and Indian Harkinder Kaur's 212kg secured her the bronze.
Kiana Rose finished with a total of 204kg — a 94kg snatch and 110kg clean and herk.
By Jon Healy
🥇 Swimming: Emma McKeon wins another gold, Holly Barratt ties for silver in 50m butterfly
Emma McKeon wins her fourth gold medal of these Games, touching the wall in 25.90, which was 0.15 of a second ahead of compatriot Holly Barratt, who will share the silver medal podium with South Africa's Erin Gallagher.
Hopefully they have two medals and don't have to share that too, like some sort of Sisterhood of the Travelling P(end)ants.
Alex Perkins was fifth.
