Golden sweep for Coetze as SA swimmers glitter in Glasgow

South Africa's Pieter Coetze stormed to his third gold of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Wednesday night, winning the Men’s 100m backstroke final in a Games and African record time of  51.77 to complete a clean sweep in the three backstroke events.

Coetze's compatriot Ruard van Renen took bronze in 53.31 seconds, with England's Oliver Morgan claiming silver.

🇿🇦 Pieter Coetze does the Men's 50m, 100m and 200m Backstroke gold medal clean sweep 🧹🥇

Ruad van Renen comes in 3rd place to secure the bronze medal 🥉#SSCommonwealthGames #Glasgow2026 pic.twitter.com/gtbuhgRuWe

🥇🥉 Double podium. Double pride. 🇿🇦#TeamSA #ForMyCountry pic.twitter.com/fUYBIobC0a — Team South Africa (@OfficialTeamRSA) July 29, 2026

Christian Sadie joined the winner's podium, comfortably taking gold for South Africa in the Men’s 50m freestyle S7 final with a new Commonwealth Games record time of 28.06. 

Singapore's Wei Soong Toh claimed silver and England's Bruce Dee bronze.

Too good from Christian Sadie 🥇🇿🇦

He dominates the Men's 50m Freestyle S7 final to get the gold medal 🥇#Glasgow2026 #SSCommonwealthGames pic.twitter.com/0LcQtwW3mZ — SuperSport 🏆 (@SuperSportTV) July 29, 2026

Earlier, Kaylene Corbett swam the race of her career to go one better than her 2022 bronze medal with a heroic silver behind Scotland’s Angharaad Evans to claim her first medal in Glasgow.

Corbett came on strongly in the second half to clock 2:24.46. Aimee Canny finished 5th in 2:25.05, with Rebecca Meder 8th in 2:30.25.

Kaylene Corbett secures a silver medal in the Women's 200m Breastroke final 🇿🇦🥈

Aimee Canny and Rebecca Meder finished in 5th and 8th, respectively.#SSCommonwealthGames #Glasgow2026 pic.twitter.com/AQ5GmasfEj — SuperSport 🏆 (@SuperSportTV) July 29, 2026

🥈 Smile of a silver medallist.#TeamSA #ForMyCountry pic.twitter.com/jZFScrMTOq — Team South Africa (@OfficialTeamRSA) July 29, 2026