On July 26, Canadian Josh Liendo broke a Commonwealth Record while taking home the gold in the Men’s 100m Butterfly Swimming competition at the Commonwealth Games<\/p>\n
One of the stand-out swimming stars from Birmingham 2022, Josh Liendo, immediately impressed in the pool at Glasgow 2026.<\/p>\n
Liendo enjoyed a medal-laden summer at Birmingham 2022. He had four trips to the podium, including earning his maiden senior individual title in the 100m Butterfly, which followed a silver and two bronzes at the world championships earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople call it my breakout summer,\u201d the 23-year-old said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at the Olympics the year before but that was me gaining experience, making semis. I was able to go past that and get a medal at worlds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I carried that momentum and medalled at Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was good and a very exciting summer and it\u2019s a full-circle moment here. I\u2019m just excited to give it another go.\u201d<\/p>\n
This time around Josh earned Canada a gold medal thanks to his incredible speed in the Men’s 100m Butterfly competition at Tollcross. Electric from the gun, Liendo was ahead throughout but ultimately only a perfectly timed touch secured the Canadian gold, one-hundredth-of-a-second ahead of Australian Matthew Temple.<\/p>\n
He broke a Commonwealth Games Record in the process with a time of just 50.42 – breaking the former Commonwealth Record, 50.65, held by Chad le Clos set at Gold Coast 2018. Liendo currently holds the World Record in the category, with a time of 47.68 set at the Swimming World Cup in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 26, Canadian Josh Liendo broke a Commonwealth Record while taking home the gold in the Men’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,1290],"class_list":["post-149218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}