GOLD COAST, Australia, April 7, 2018 (News agencies) - Australia's Cate Campbell claimed her second gold medal of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games when she won the women's 50 metres freestyle title on Saturday. The 25-year-old clocked 23.78 seconds, just outside the world record of 23.67 set by Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom at last year's world championships in Budapest. Campbell also anchored the host nation's 4x100m freestyle relay team to a world record on the opening day of competition on Thursday. Her younger sister Bronte and Canada's 200m freestyle champion Taylor Ruck deadheated for second in 24.26. Etoundi clinches weightlifting bronze Australian weightlifter Francois Etoundi braved the agony of a torn bicep to clinch bronze in the 69kg division at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday, winning a measure of redemption four years after leaving Glasgow in shame. Etoundi was fined and had his accreditation stripped after headbutting Welsh weightlifter Gareth Evans at the Glasgow athletes village in the wee hours of the morning, the incident overshadowing his bronze medal in the 77kg class. On Saturday, the Cameroon-born 33-year-old re-tore his bicep when attempting a lift at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre but defied the pain for success on the next 169kg effort to win his second Commonwealth bronze with a combined weight of 305kg. After dropping the bar, he collapsed onto the platform and later returned to collect his bronze with his left arm in a sling. India's Sathish Kumar Sivalingam took gold ahead of English silver medallist Jack Oliver. Etoundi said his bicep had fallen down to his elbow only a week before the Gold Coast competition and he felt a 'click' when trying to lift 168kg on the clean and jerk. "I didn't want to show the coaches how much I was hurting because I wanted to try 175kg on my last lift, but they were a little bit scared to let me," he said. "This is my home crowd. I didn't want to disappoint them. I know that if I didn't have this injury, this would have been a gold medal for sure -- 100 per cent." Etoundi said he hoped to reconcile with Evans, four years after breaking his nose. The Welshman grabbed gold in the 69kg division on Friday. "I've seen him at a couple of competitions since Glasgow, including the Commonwealth Championships last year, but we never speak," added Etoundi. "All the time when I've seen him I prefer to stay away because I don't want drama. But this is my home, so I want to make him feel welcome and move on. Sometimes people make mistakes." Masse wins100m backstroke title Canada's Kylie Masse ended the reign of Australia's Emily Seebohm in the women's 100m backstroke when she won the title at at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Saturday. Masse clocked a Commonwealth Games record 58.63 seconds to pip Seebohm by 0.03 seconds in the lunge for the wall in a race that many had predicted would be a classic given they had broken the Commonwealth record three times between them on Friday. Seebohm, who had won the previous two Commonwealth titles, took silver, with Canada's Taylor Ruck, who had just tied for silver in the women's 50m freestyle, finishing third in 58.97. The Australian had gone out fast and turned for home under world record pace but the tall 22-year-old Masse timed her final stroke to perfection to become the first Canadian since Wendy Cook in 1974 to win the Commonwealth 100m backstroke title. Peaty grabs 100m breaststroke England's Adam Peaty swam well within his capabilities to clinch the men's 100m breaststroke at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Saturday. The 23-year-old Peaty, who has labelled his ambitions to crack 57 seconds for the race as Project 56, clocked 58.84 seconds to beat fast-finishing compatriot James Wilby to defend the Commonwealth Games title he won in Glasgow four years ago. Wilby clocked 59.43 seconds with South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh taking bronze 0.01 seconds behind the Englishman. Peaty had swum a Commonwealth Games record 58.59 on Friday but appeared to be content to just win the race rather than challenge his own world record of 57.13 that he set at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Glaetzer eliminated after blunder World champion Matthew Glaetzer, favourite to win the men's sprint gold at the Commonwealth Games, crashed out of the preliminary rounds on Saturday after an "embarrassing" tactical blunder against Malaysian rank outsider Muhammad Sahrom. Sahrom had qualified last of the final 16 riders and Glaetzer was completely caught off guard when the Malaysian attacked and roared away for a stunning upset at the Anna Meares Velodrome. Glaetzer, who claimed the keirin gold on Friday, was inconsolable after committing an "elementary mistake". "I was just coming into the bell too slow. I needed to be accelerating not just controlling," the 25-year-old from Adelaide told reporters. "It's just hard, it's a nightmare unfolding. With three-quarters of the lap to go, I knew I had stuffed it and had to give it all. "I had to try and fight but the race was gone by then. "I tried to get through with minimum effort. I just needed to get my speed going. The speed just wasn't there." Glaetzer, who also took keirin gold and a team sprint bronze at Glasgow four years ago, will return on Sunday for the men's 1,000m time trial. "It will take me a while to get over this one but I will definitely be giving my best tomorrow," he said. "It's just one ride and I'm going to absolutely rip it, try and make amends for today because I came in looking good for this and to lose it like that is embarrassing, disappointing and shattering, really."
