Before this Commonwealth Games the most golds that Scotland managed
to win in the pool was 2 and the last time that was acheived was in 1974
when David Wilkie won both the Golds in question (200m breaststroke and
200m individual medley)
When Gregor Tait
won one of the titles Wilkie won 32 years previously the, 200m
individual medley, to add to his 200m backstroke title, he was just one
of three Scottish swimmers in these games to match Wilkie in Scotland's
most sucessful swim team ever.
Caitlan McClatchey
having already been a surprise in the 200m freestyle took the title in
her favoured 400m freestyle this morning. She had won bronze at this
distance in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Yesterday, David Carry added the
other individual medley title over 400m to his 400m freestyle crown to
make it a Scottish 1-2 with Euan Dale in his wake.
Considering
that Scottish team bosses said they were looking for 15 medals from
these games I don't think anybody was expecting to find 10 of them
coming from the pool.
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