Dominance is always expected in the pool, but there is no reason the Glasgow gold rush has to stop once Australia rolls out its athletes on dry land with a host of rising stars ready to become household names.
Jake Santa Maria
Jess Hull wants athletes to embrace the Commonwealth Games and ensure the event has a bright future, with Glasgow 2026hit by another high-profile withdrawal.
Shayne Hope
Australian sprint sensation Torrie Lewis has taken down the legendary Elaine Thompson-Herah to win the 100m at a meet in Slovakia.
John Salvado and Shayne Hope
It might be a smaller program in Glasgow, but it will be jam-packed full of action. Here are the events you simply can’t afford to miss at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Josh Kerr made it a landmark day in London with a world mile record while Australia's women shone too at the pre-Commonwealth Games Diamond League meet.
Ian Chadband
Peter Bol is arguably in the best shape of his career heading into the Commonwealth Games as he revealed what helped him rebound from the lowest point in his life.
Decorated Perth para-athlete Rhiannon Clarke has opened up on her battle for identity as she chases a maiden gold medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games later this month.
Glen Quartermain
Pole vaulter Nina Kennedy has soared to a personal-best 4.95m to win the gold medal at the Monaco Diamond League meet in Monte Carlo.
Mohen Govender
Sprint superstar Gout Gout has suffered a major hamstring injury that will force him to miss this year's under-20 world championships.
Australia’s teenage sprint sensation, Gout Gout, will spend the rest of 2026 on the sidelines after sustaining a hamstring injury on Wednesday night.
Aaron Kirby
ACT middle distance star Cameron Myers set a new Oceania men's mile record at the Diamond League meet in the United States.
Russian and Belarusian athletes will continue to be banned from international competition, says world athletics boss Seb Coe.
Staff Writers
Fit again, Andy Buchanan will line up in his first major race in more than a year - enough time for plenty to have changed in the marathon world.
Murray Wenzel
Australian middle-distance star Cameron Myers has delivered the biggest performance of his career by powering to 1500m victory at the Paris Diamond League.
Richard Hookham
Eddie Nketia produced some eye-opening 100m sprint times recently. He wants more on debut in a strong Australian Commonwealth Games athletics team.
Roger Vaughan
Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino proved too strong for her rivals in the 400m at the Doha Diamond meet, while Sri Lankan Rumesh Tharanga took javelin gold.
Australian sprinter Gout Gout has finished an impressive third behind the great Noah Lyles in the 150m at a track meet in Ostrava.
John Salvado
The Aussie teenager shone as he went head-to-head with Olympic champion and friendly rival Noah Lyles.
Glenn Valencich
Queensland's Lachie Kennedy has his sights on achieving Commonwealth Games glory and a slice of Australian sprinting history before the year is out.
West Australian 14-year-old sprint sensation Charlotte Ehioghae is better than Cathy Freeman at the same age. Who says so? The coach who steered Freeman to a generational gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Ethiopia's two-time world champion and Olympic medallist Gudaf Tsegay has been banned for four months in a doping case that effectively ends her season.
Tributes are flowing for ‘a beautiful, bright and warm’ rising star ‘who was always smiling’.
Australian teenage athletics sensation Gout Gout could only finish sixth on his Diamond League debut at the Bislett Games in Oslo, up against the sprint elite.
The first-timer ‘didn’t mean to spoil the show’ but his win over a man unbeaten for 1000 days is one to ‘cherish for my whole life’.
Ian Chadband, AAP
