{"id":548834,"date":"2026-07-29T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548834\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:30:09","slug":"commonwealth-games-lewis-clareburt-wins-second-gold-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548834\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: Lewis Clareburt wins second gold in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimmer Lewis Clareburt has struck gold once again at the Commonwealth Games – this time in the 400m individual medley. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old finished with a time of 4m 08.72s, more than two seconds clear of Australian Will Petric.<\/p>\n

It’s Clareburt’s second gold in Glasgow, and now the second time he’s sucessfully defended a title from Birmingham. <\/p>\n

Yesterday, Clareburt stunned his rivals<\/a> in the 200m butterfly. <\/p>\n

New Zealand now has 10 medals in total, two gold, five silver and three bronze. <\/p>\n

He told Sky after the race the win was a “pretty good feeling”.<\/p>\n

“I love racing, and being part of that race, it was pretty fun.”<\/p>\n

Clareburt was just short of the games record he set four years ago, but wasn’t dwelling too much on that.<\/p>\n

“Pretty gutting to finish that race and look up and see just over the time but I’m where I want to be,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m where I was four years ago pretty much. That’s what I wanted this year. Hopefully in the years to come I can build off that. There’s so many things that probably went wrong in that race that I can fix up at a later date. I can analyse it all I want right now but I think I just got to be happy I won the race.” <\/p>\n

Earlier Kiwi weightlifter Cameron McTaggart claimed a silver medal in the 88kg division.<\/p>\n

The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including a powerful quake hits Japan, Winston Peters lashes out at the Greens, and a shark bite caught on camera. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimmer Lewis Clareburt has struck gold once again at the Commonwealth Games – this time in the 400m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[166477,111,139,69,213,17933,1745],"class_list":["post-548834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-swimming","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548834","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=548834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}