{"id":643251,"date":"2026-05-09T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=643251"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:25:03","slug":"australia-names-18-strong-para-swim-team-for-2026-glasgow-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australia-names-18-strong-para-swim-team-for-2026-glasgow-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Names 18-Strong Para Swim Team for 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia Names 18-Strong Para Swim Team for 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 27-year-old who will make her fourth Commonwealth Games appearance and a 14-year-old rookie are among Australia\u2019 18-strong Dolphins Para Swim team named today for this year\u2019s Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paralympic golden girl <strong>Lakeisha Patterson<\/strong> (USC Spartans, QLD) will return to Glasgow some 12 years after making her international debut as a 15-year-old in the Scottish capital in 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patterson won bronze in 2014, before winning double gold on the Gold Coast in 2018, a finalist on her third team in Birmingham in 2022, who will contest the 100m freestyle in the S9 category in 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The celebrated elder-stateswoman of para swimming in Australia has, \u201cLucky\u201d has gone on to win seven Paralympic medals in Rio, Tokyo and Paris \u2013 winning back-to-back 400m freestyles in 2016 and 2020, before taking silver in Paris in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s always an honour to wear the green and gold and representing Australia at my fourth Commonwealth Games is special,\u201d Patterson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commonwealth Games is the only time on the international stage we get 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