Local heroine Angharad Evans completed her swimming programme at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games with a second gold and a final silver at the Tollcross International Pool.
Evans, who earned the women’s 100m breaststroke title for the host nation on Sunday, produced another golden flourish in the 200m breaststroke.
She led from start to finish to clock 2:23.79, with South Africa’s Kaylene Corbett taking silver in 2:24.46 and Northern Ireland’s Ellie McCartney earning bronze in 2:24.73.
Evans followed up by contributing to Scotland’s silver medal performance in the women’s 4x100m medley, where her fizzing split of 1:04.83, beating her own Scottish record, proved decisive.
She thus became only the third Scottish woman to earn two golds at a single Games following the achievements of Helen Orr “Elinor” Gordon at Vancouver in 1954 and Caitlin McClatchey at Melbourne in 2006.
Evans’s performances helped lift Scotland above England into third place in the medals table with a total of five golds from 12.
England were fourth with four golds from 26 in a table topped by Australia – 37 golds from 76 – and South Africa – six golds from 22.
“It’s just really surreal,” said Evans, who will now join other home nations medallists in shifting focus to the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026, where swimming will take place from August 10 to 16.
“I didn’t go into this meet expecting any sort of medal. I just wanted more experience and I guess to put the demons to bed and I have done that with the help of some medals. So, extremely proud of myself.”
Another of the Scottish silver-medal quartet had earned herself an individual place on the podium earlier – Keeana Macinnes added 200m butterfly silver to the version she had won in the 100m butterfly as she clocked 2:06.76 behind the 2:06.56 set by Australia’s Brittany Castelluzzo.
And there was another medal for Scotland in the women’s para-swimming, where Toni Shaw took bronze in the 100m freestyle S9 in 1:04.71.
Paris 2024 800m freestyle champion Daniel Wiffen, who missed a medal by one place in Monday’s 800m final, took silver for Northern Ireland in the 1500m where he clocked 14:44.70 to finish behind Australia’s Sam Short, who completed the 400/800.1500 treble in 14:42.11.
England’s Oliver Morgan collected his third individual silver as he clocked 52.66 in the 100m backstroke. South Africa’s Pieter Coetze won his third backstroke gold in a Games record and Area record of 51.77
England’s James Guy and Matt Richards of Wales, who have won Olympic and world 4x200m freestyle titles together, could not be separated in the men’s 200m final as they clocked 1:45.72 to earn joint silver behind Australia’s Kai Taylor, who clocked 1:45.22.
And England earned another medal in the men’s para-swimming as Bruce Dee clocked 31.33 to take bronze in the 50m freestyle S7.
Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics
