{"id":823292,"date":"2026-07-25T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823292\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:47:33","slug":"gulden-claims-fourth-kirk-ward-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823292\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulden claims fourth Kirk-Ward Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                A record breaking performance sees Errol Gulden claim his fourth Kirk-Ward Medal in Sydney Derby XXXIII.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Sydney Swans midfielder Errol Gulden has claimed his fourth Kirk-Ward Medal in Sydney&#8217;s 51-point win over GWS at Engie Stadium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Gulden (8 votes) finished ahead of teammates Brodie Grundy (7 votes) and Chad Warner (3 votes).<\/p>\n<p>Gulden produced a masterclass in the midfield finishing with 41 disposals, seven clearances, and a staggering 1045 metres gained, becoming the first Swans player to ever record over 1000m gained in a game.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Derby specialist&#8217;s fourth medal moved him into second outright since the medal&#8217;s inception, having won the medal in 2023, in both Derby matches in 2024 and in tonight&#8217;s 33rd edition of the Derby. The 24-year old now sits just one medal behind Luke Parker&#8217;s record of 5.<\/p>\n<p>Votes as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Garb (ABC)<\/p>\n<p>3 Gulden 2 Grundy 1 Warner<\/p>\n<p>Ben Dixon (Fox)<\/p>\n<p>3 Gulden 2 Grundy 1 Warner<\/p>\n<p>Lachie McKirdy (Daily Telegraph)<\/p>\n<p>3 Grundy 2 Gulden 1 Warner<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record breaking performance sees Errol Gulden claim his fourth Kirk-Ward Medal in Sydney Derby XXXIII. Sydney Swans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-823292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}