﻿{"id":636,"date":"1998-09-14T19:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/1998\/09\/1998-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T23:40:33","slug":"1998-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"1998 Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 Winners:<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 200m freestyle &#8211; Ian Thorpe of Australia (1:46.70)<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 100m breaststroke &#8211; Simon Cowley of Australia (1:02.00)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 100m freestyle &#8211; Susan Rolph of England (55.17)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 400m individual medley &#8211; Joanne Malar of Canada (4:43.72)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 800m freestyle relay &#8211; Australia (8:03.73)<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 Winners:<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 100m butterfly &#8211; Geoff Huegill of Australia (52.81)<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 400m individual medley &#8211; Trent Steed of Australia (4:19.89)<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 800m freestyle relay &#8211; Australia (7:11.86) NEW WORLD RECORD!<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 200m freestyle &#8211; Susan O&#8217;Neill of Australia (2:00.24)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 200m breaststroke &#8211; Samantha Riley of Australia (2:27.30)<\/p>\n<p>Day 3 Winners:<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 100m freestyle &#8211; Michael Klim of Australia (49.43)<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s 200m backstroke &#8211; Mark Versfeld of Canada (1:59.67)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 400m freestyle &#8211; Susan O&#8217;Neill of Australia (4:12.39)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 100m backstroke &#8211; Giaan Rooney of Australia (1:02.43)<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 400m freestyle relay &#8211; Australia (3:42.61)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 Winners: Men&#8217;s 200m freestyle &#8211; Ian Thorpe of Australia (1:46.70) Men&#8217;s 100m breaststroke &#8211; Simon Cowley of Australia (1:02.00) Women&#8217;s 100m freestyle &#8211; Susan Rolph of England (55.17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2462,105,881,2458,2459,2460,118,961,2457,2461,2456,165],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zzzzzzzzz","tag-1998-commonwealth-games","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-ian-thorpe","tag-joanne-malar","tag-mark-versfeld","tag-michael-klim","tag-samantha-riley","tag-simon-cowley","tag-susan-rolph","tag-trent-steed","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>1998 Commonwealth Games - Swimming World<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1998 Commonwealth Games\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Day 1 Winners: Men&#8217;s 200m freestyle &#8211; Ian Thorpe of Australia (1:46.70) Men&#8217;s 100m breaststroke &#8211; Simon Cowley of Australia (1:02.00) Women&#8217;s 100m freestyle &#8211; Susan Rolph of England (55.17)\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-24T23:40:33+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Archive Team\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Archive Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Archive Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/794d59f870d64f0d99b6c19bcc198ae7\"},\"headline\":\"1998 Commonwealth Games\",\"datePublished\":\"1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-24T23:40:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"1998 Commonwealth Games\",\"Australia\",\"Canada\",\"Ian Thorpe\",\"Joanne Malar\",\"Mark Versfeld\",\"Michael Klim\",\"Samantha Riley\",\"Simon Cowley\",\"Susan Rolph\",\"Trent Steed\",\"United Kingdom\"],\"articleSection\":[\"zz Import (Home Page)\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\",\"name\":\"1998 Commonwealth Games - Swimming World\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-24T23:40:33+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"1998 Commonwealth Games\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/794d59f870d64f0d99b6c19bcc198ae7\",\"name\":\"Archive Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6954d08fa89e8fe6d2fbf8f02cb5500?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6954d08fa89e8fe6d2fbf8f02cb5500?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Archive Team\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/swimmingworldmagazine.com\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/archive\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"1998 Commonwealth Games - Swimming World","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"1998 Commonwealth Games","og_description":"Day 1 Winners: Men&#8217;s 200m freestyle &#8211; Ian Thorpe of Australia (1:46.70) Men&#8217;s 100m breaststroke &#8211; Simon Cowley of Australia (1:02.00) Women&#8217;s 100m freestyle &#8211; Susan Rolph of England (55.17)","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-07-24T23:40:33+00:00","author":"Archive Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@swimmingworld","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Archive Team","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/"},"author":{"name":"Archive Team","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/794d59f870d64f0d99b6c19bcc198ae7"},"headline":"1998 Commonwealth Games","datePublished":"1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2014-07-24T23:40:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/"},"wordCount":144,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["1998 Commonwealth Games","Australia","Canada","Ian Thorpe","Joanne Malar","Mark Versfeld","Michael Klim","Samantha Riley","Simon Cowley","Susan Rolph","Trent Steed","United Kingdom"],"articleSection":["zz Import (Home Page)"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/","name":"1998 Commonwealth Games - Swimming World","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2014-07-24T23:40:33+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/1998-commonwealth-games\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"1998 Commonwealth Games"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/794d59f870d64f0d99b6c19bcc198ae7","name":"Archive Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6954d08fa89e8fe6d2fbf8f02cb5500?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6954d08fa89e8fe6d2fbf8f02cb5500?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Archive Team"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/swimmingworldmagazine.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/archive\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}