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
- Meet Schedule + Results
- Live Stream (Canada)
- Live Stream (US)
- Live Stream (Australia)
Closing out the opening day at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the Australian women delighted the home crowd with a new world record in the 400 free relay. The quartet of Shayna Jack, Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell clocked 3:30.05, winning over the Canadians by nearly four seconds. They break their previous record of 3:30.65 set at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Check out a comparison of their splits and the splits of the previous world record below:
| Australia – 2016 Olympics | Australia – 2018 Commonwealth Games |
| Emma McKeon (53.47) | Shayna Jack (54.03) |
| Brittany Elmslie (53.12) | Bronte Campbell (52.03) |
| Bronte Campbell (52.15) | Emma McKeon (52.99) |
| Cate Campbell (51.97) | Cate Campbell (51.00) |
| 3:30.65 | 3:30.05 |
Obviously of note is Cate Campbell‘s anchor leg of 51.00, the fastest in history and nearly a full second faster than she was in Rio. The previous fastest ever was her 51.59 from the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, based on our findings. Bronte also had a very impressive 52.03 leg, and McKeon was sub-53 as well.
The addition of Cate obviously makes a huge difference from last year, where they lost the gold to the United States, swimming almost two seconds slower than they did tonight.
The Canadians won silver in 3:33.92, with Taylor Ruck splitting a scintillating 51.82. She joins the elusive list of swimmers who have split sub-52, which includes both Cate and Bronte, along with Femke Heemskerk and Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands.
And they did it with a 54 split in there too
Is Penny the Bouchard of world swimming……54 sec split, damn that’s quite slow
I think I read that her grandmother passed away yesterday. I am sure she is emotionally exhausted from the news.
We need to talk about swimswams use of the words “smash” and “slaughter” in regards to records.
Do they offend you?
Are reaction times of this relay available? The “result” link doesn’t have this information.
Yes there are. You need to click on the link “Official reports”. Cate Campbell’s reaction time was 0.10 and Bronte Campbell’s time was 0.33 🙂
Emma McKeons was 0.4
Tnx
1 4 AUS – Australia 3:30.05 WR
JACK Shayna 0.72 (2) 54.03 25.73 54.03
CAMPBELL Bronte 0.33 (1) 1:46.06 25.02 52.03
McKEON Emma 0.40 (1) 2:39.05 25.28 52.99
CAMPBELL Cate 0.10 (1) 3:30.05 23.89 51.00
2 5 CAN – Canada 3:33.92 3.87
ZEVNIK Alexia 0.75 (1) 53.95 26.19 53.95
SANCHEZ Kayla 0.35 (2) 1:47.77 25.97 53.82
OLEKSIAK Penny 0.26 (2) 2:42.10 25.79 54.33
RUCK Taylor 0.23 (2) 3:33.92
Looks liike 51.82 for Ruck — wow
https://results.gc2018.com/resCG2018-/pdf/CG2018-/SWM/CG2018-_SWM_C73B1_SWMW4X100MFR———-FNL-000100–.pdf
It was 0.10 and that’s pretty fast!
Cate Campbell rarely had flat start under 0.8sec. If her reaction time in this relay was indeed 0.1 then she wasn’t faster than Sjostrom’s world record race.
Didn’t Kromowidjojo go a 51 in Budapest ?
51.98 on the anchor in finals.
51 flat. Good god…
“She joins the elusive list of swimmers who have split sub-52, which includes both Cate and Bronte, and Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands.”
Sjostrom also went 51 on a relay… But she was leading off. Insane that there are only 4 other women who can do that even with a relay start (though hopefully we can see Manuel and/or Comerford and/or Weitzel do the same on a relay soon enough).
Don’t think Abbey has the endurance to hang on, Mallory also doesn’t have the pure speed but she could challenge more than abbey. Simone should be able to this summer.
she’s been 52.5 on a flat start so it wouldn’t take much to get under, on a relay..
by 2020 Canada pulls ahead
dont go too fast – 2 years can make new sprint stars rise and rise High .
Too early to tell, but that’s not impossible.
Looking longer term, post Tokyo, I tend to agree that CAN WILL become USA’s prime competition in this (and other) relays as its likely the AUS team will fall away with both Campbells (and most likely McKeon) saying goodbye leaving only Jack as the only AUS sprinter of any consequence
Kromowidjojo and Steffen have also split sub 52 before