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England Clinch 10 Gold Medals on Day 6
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Australia suffered their first Commonwealth relay defeat in eight years in the men's 4x100m medley relay at the hands of England, who wrapped up 10 Swimming Gold Medals to close their swimming meet.
19-year-old sensation Ben Proud claimed his second gold of the Games by beating star duo Cameron McEvoy and James Magnussen in the men's 50m freestyle.
World Champion in 100m freestyle, Cate Campbell handed the Aussie women 4x100m medley relay gold after Daniel Tranter won the men's 200m individual medley to take Australia's final gold medal tally to 19.
England won the final race though, the team of Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, Adam Barrett and Adam Brown clocked a Games record time 3min 31:51sec to become the first English team to beat Australia in the 4x100 medley relay since 1950 games.
Updated Medal Tally after Day 6:
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Brozne | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 34 | 31 | 36 | 101 |
| 2 | England | 33 | 33 | 27 | 93 |
| 3 | Canada | 16 | 5 | 18 | 39 |
| 4 | Scotland | 13 | 11 | 13 | 37 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 11 | 9 | 11 | 31 |
| 6 | India | 10 | 15 | 11 | 36 |
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13-year-old Erraid Davies wins Bronze at Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games 2014, Glasgow, Scotland
Schoolgirl Erraid Davies won a bronze medal in the women's 100m breaststroke final at Glasgow Games 2014 after the 13-year-old set a new personal best for the 2nd time in the day.
Davies, Scotland's youngest-ever Comonwealth Games competitor, had come 2nd in the heat on Sunday morning & fought her way to the bronze medal in the last quarter of the final.
Supported largely by the crowd, she finished just behind Australian silver medallist Madeleine Scott in 1 minute and 21.38 seconds, with New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe took the gold.
"I'm really happy. It's another PB and I could really hear the crowd in the last 25m. Mum and Dad are here to watch and I'm not sure what we'll do to celebrate later." she said.
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Commonwealth Games 2014 day 2 Recap
Commonwealth Games 2014, Glasgow, Scotland
GLASGOW: A total of 22 Gold Medals were up for grabs on Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games 2014. It was Australia who rose to the occasion, scoring big and grabbing 4 of them. However, England continued their stay at the top of the table.
Thomas Fraser-Holmes of Australia won 2 medals for his country. Apart from winning the 200 meter freestyle swimming, he won the Silver for 400 meter Individual Mens category too. The event was won by Daniel Wallace from the host nation Scotland.
Scotland continues to perform well at the event already securing 7 Gold Medals till now. England and Scotland won big on Judo and bagged 4 Gold Medals. Abhinav Bindra, former Olympic Gold Medallist from India, won his 4th Commonwealth Games Gold Medal on 10 Meter Air Rifle Event. This is going to be his last CWG & he bowed out on a high.
However, the world was shocked even before the event started. The 400 meter hurdle champion Rhys Williams of Wales failed the Drug Test on Day 2 & was sent off from the competition. He is the 2nd athlete from Wales to fail the test after Gareth Warburton was barred from the event last week. But this was not the end of misery for Wales on Day 2.
In Hockey, Wales missed out as Men team suffered a 1-3 loss to India & Women's team were handed a drubbing of 0-9 from Australia.
Medals Tally After Day 2:
Michael Phelps Shares The Honors in Santa Clara
Los Angeles: Olympic superstar Michael Phelps had to share the honors on Friday, finishing in a tie for first with Tom Shields in the 100m butterfly at the Santa Clara grand prix meeting.
Phelps, who came out of a near two-year retirement in April in a comeback that could take him all the way to the 2016 Rio Games, was second to Shields at the turn.
The 18-time Olympic gold medalist closed the gap, and they were matched stroke-for-stroke in the final 25 meters before hitting the wall in the same time of 52.11sec.
Phelps's evening also included a runner-up finish to Olympic champion Nathan Adrian in the 100m freestyle.
Adrian clocked a blistering 48.17sec. In an event that has never been one of his signature races, Phelps was second in 48.80 with Connor Dwyer third in 49.76.
Although it wasn't close, Phelps has achieved the time standard needed to contest the 100m free at the US championships in August, the selection meeting for the Pan Pacific championships and next year's World Championships in Russia.
Phelps, whose glittering Olympic career included his stunning eight gold medals in eight events at Beijing in 2008, has yet to confirm he has his sights set on the 2015 worlds or the Rio Games.
But coming off of two weeks of high-altitude training, the 28-year-old is showing in the third meet of his comeback that he's ready to challenge himself.
Friday marked the first full double-duty day -- preliminaries and finals of two events -- of his comeback.
In earlier meets he finished second to Ryan Lochte in 100m fly at the Grand Prix at Mesa, Arizona, and won the 100m fly in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Phelps narrowly qualified for the 200m freestyle final in Charlotte, but opted not to swim it on the same night he won the 100m fly there.
Phelps is also slated to swim the 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley on the weekend.
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