{"id":25816,"date":"2026-07-27T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=25816"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:28:00","slug":"day-3-para-swimmers-and-para-powerlifters-deliver-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=25816","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Para Swimmers And Para Powerlifters Deliver At Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s top Para swimmers flexed their muscles on Day 3 of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with\u00a0no fewer than\u00a010 Aussies winning a medal,\u00a0after\u00a0crowd\u00a0favourite\u00a0Hani Watson claimed\u00a0bronze in Para powerlifting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watson\u00a0\u2013\u00a0who along with fellow Commonwealth Games representative Ben Wright\u00a0competed for Australia at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games\u00a0\u2013\u00a0became the first Australian to win two Commonwealth Games medals\u00a0in the power sport, capturing bronze in the\u00a0women\u2019s heavyweight with a final lift of 147 kilograms to score\u00a0111.5 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watson was bettered only by\u00a0the dominant Nigerian duo of Folashade\u00a0Oluwafemiayo, whose score of 134.8\u00a0represented\u00a0a new world record, and Rita Ferdinand\u2019s 128.2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s been an incredibly hard journey for the last 12 months,\u201d Watson told Channel Seven\u00a0afterwards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSix surgeries down the track and still trying to hit these goals and PBs and motivating people around Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-wrapper \">\n<div class=\"quote-body\">\n<div class=\"quote-text\">\n<p>Six surgeries down the track and still trying to hit these goals and PBs and motivating people around Australia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHani Watson, Para powerlifter\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m\u00a0so incredibly impassioned about everyone just getting out there and giving every dream a go.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0proud of the team for coming here and to wear the green and gold.\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0set out to do\u00a0this\u00a0and\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0done exactly what we wanted to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-wrapper \">\n<div class=\"quote-body\">\n<div class=\"quote-text\">\n<p>I\u2019m so incredibly impassioned about everyone just getting out there and giving every dream a go.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHani Watson, Para powerlifter\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s swimming medallists were headed by two-time Paralympian Jenna Jones, who won gold in the 100 metres freestyle S13,\u00a0six-time Paralympic Games medallist\u00a0Tim Hodge\u00a0who took gold in the 100 metres backstroke S9, and Alex Saffy who won bronze at Paris 2024 and took gold in the 100 metres butterfly S10 in which he won the silver medal at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games four years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hodge said: \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0always strived to do my best, to put my best effort into the pool and into everything I do.\u00a0I guess some of the honours I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to experience, like baton bearer this year,\u00a0I like to think that while I\u2019m setting a precedent for Para sport,\u00a0I\u2019m always showing people back home that if you put your mind to something, you can achieve it, no matter what it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-wrapper \">\n<div class=\"quote-body\">\n<div class=\"quote-text\">\n<p>If you put your mind to something, you can achieve it, no matter what it is.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTimothy Hodge, Para swimmer\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other medallists in the pool included Paralympic representatives Jasmine Greenwood (silver in the 200 metres individual medley SM10), Col Pearse (silver in the 100 metres butterfly S10), Jack Ireland (silver in the 200 metres freestyle S14) and Kirralee Hayes (bronze in the 100 metres freestyle S13).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gemma Sellick, Victoria\u00a0Belando-Nicholson\u00a0and Harrison\u00a0Vig\u00a0also won medals in their respective events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among other results, Australia\u00a0bounced back from their narrow loss to England on Day 1 with a 21-5 win over Kenya in their men\u2019s 3\u00d73 wheelchair basketball clash.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women\u2019s 3\u00d73 wheelchair basketball team scored a 20-5 win over South Africa after they, too, went down to England in the opener. 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