We are so proud to share 20 current and former Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship holders have returned from the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a combined 25 medals between them. Join us in celebrating an extraordinary two weeks on the world stage!
Jye Dixon delivered a unanimous points win over India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam to claim gold in the men’s 55kg boxing, and Alyssa Polites was a double gold medallist, helping the women’s team pursuit squad with fellow Scholarship holder Felicity Wilson-Haffenden to a Games record before capping an emotional individual campaign with gold in the elimination race,
Alex Saffy claimed gold in the men’s 100m butterfly S10, edging out the field by just three tenths of a second to make it back-to-back Australian medals in the event, while Will Petric and Brendon Smith struck gold as part of the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team that touched the wall ahead of the field in Glasgow.
Jesse Moore capped off a brilliant Games with gold on the parallel bars — adding to a bronze in the team event and a bronze in the individual all-around for a three-medal haul — Tom O’Neill-Thorne helped the Wombats defend their wheelchair basketball 3×3 title, beating England 19-13 in the gold medal game to go back-to-back from Birmingham.
Calab Law was part of the men’s 4x100m relay quartet — alongside Lachlan Kennedy, Joshua Azzopardi and Rohan Browning — that stopped the clock in 38.07 seconds to end a 52-year Australian drought in the event, while 19-year-old Isaac Beacroft produced a stunning final-lap surge to win the men’s 10,000m race walk in 38:45.51 on his Commonwealth Games debut.
Col Pearse added a second consecutive Commonwealth silver in the men’s 100m butterfly S10, and Will Petric backed up his relay gold with silver in the men’s 400m IM, fending off a fierce battle with Canada’s Lorne Wigginton to join training partner and event winner Lewis Clareburt on the podium.
Jacob Cassar capped a remarkable debut Games campaign with silver in the men’s 65kg boxing, coming through wins over New Zealand, Canada and Lesotho to reach the gold medal bout, while Lekeisha Pergoliti claimed bronze in the women’s light-middleweight 70kg boxing on her own Commonwealth Games debut, backing up her world championship silver from Liverpool last year.
Torrie Lewis produced a stunning run of 10.99 seconds to claim bronze in the women’s 100m — breaking her own national record and becoming the first Australian woman in history to go under 11 seconds — Nya Hayman broke through for Australia’s first weightlifting medal of the Games with bronze in the women’s 69kg.
Oliver Saxton claimed bronze in the men’s 94kg weightlifting, emulating his father and three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Andrew Saxton, and Brooke Buschkuehl added bronze in the women’s long jump to her back-to-back silvers from 2018 and 2022 — a third consecutive Commonwealth Games medal.
Bec Henderson completed an all-Australian podium sweep in the women’s 10,000m race walk, finishing behind Jemima Montag and Elizabeth McMillen. Liz Watson, while captained the Australian Diamonds to bronze in netball after a hard-fought win over England in the bronze medal match.
Tayte Ryan rounded out the medal haul with a pair of bronze medals on the track — in the men’s sprint and the men’s 1000m time trial — making him, at 20, the youngest Australian cyclist to medal at these Games.
Congratulations to all of our Scholarship athletes, and to every member of the Australian team, who represented our country at the 2026 Commonwealth Games — we’re incredibly proud of you all.
Images courtesy of Commonwealth Games
Harvey Norman is an Official Partner of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, backing our athletes at Glasgow 2026.
