{"id":546833,"date":"2026-07-27T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:34:11","slug":"lewis-clareburt-wins-nzs-first-commonwealth-games-gold-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546833\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Clareburt wins NZ’s first Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimmer Lewis Clareburt has won the country’s first gold medal at this year’s Commonwealth Games with his effort in the 200m butterfly. <\/p>\n

The win has seen Clareburt defend his title won at Birmingham four years ago. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old, who had qualified second for the final, looked well out of the running at the halfway mark, turning seventh, and then sitting fourth going into the final 50 metres. <\/p>\n

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Lewis Clareburt of Team New Zealand competes during the Men’s 200m Butterfly. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

Commentators were in bisbelief as the reigning champ produced an epic late burst to storm home past Australian Harrison Turner, who had led the entire race. <\/p>\n

His finishing time was 1:55.05, the only swimmer to go below 30 seconds over the final 50 metres.<\/p>\n

Turner settled for silver in 1:55.38, with fellow Australian Matthew Temple third in 1:55.45.<\/p>\n

New Zealand has also just won bronze in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay, which saw Erika Fairweather earn a fourth medal in Glasgow. <\/p>\n

Earlier today, Kiwi para swimmer Joshua Willmer nabbed a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke SB9, after originally finishing the race in third. <\/p>\n

But due to a disqualification for Canadian Fernando Lu, the fastest qualifier who was second in the final, Willmer was upgraded to second. <\/p>\n

The 21-year-old said he was “stoked” to finish in the top three, but felt for Lu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimmer Lewis Clareburt has won the country’s first gold medal at this year’s Commonwealth Games with his effort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166477,111,43,139,69,17933],"class_list":["post-546833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}