Lewis Clareburt

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Kiwi plays his part in scintillating 200m individual medley and basks in his dream week.

Duncan Scott took the silver in this event in Tokyo last year, he is a force to be reckoned with.” A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. Scott crept out to a handy lead in the final freestyle leg. New Zealand ended fourth on the swimming medal table with five golds, two silvers and two bronzes. If quality local sport journalism is important to you, become a Stuff supporter today. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. Australia dominated with 25 golds, 21 silvers and 19 bronzes. ”It was sort of a blur,” he said of the fast-paced race. I feel like I’ve made that come true.” He was a close second to Scott over the first three legs of butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke. Clareburt had qualified sixth in the 200m individual medley and had a tough assignment in lane seven on the final night of the swimming program at these Games. Scott led from start to finish to win in a Games record time of 1:56:88. Dean was only 0.13s behind while Clareburt was just outside his New Zealand record with a time of 1:57:59.

The New Zealand swimmer has wrapped up his time in Birmingham with a third medal in the pool.

Thursday's bronze for Clareburt comes after he already took home two gold medals earlier this week for New Zealand in the 400m individual medley and the 200m butterfly. However, a strong finish from England's Tom Dean saw the Kiwi pushed down to bronze with Scotland's Duncan Scott taking the gold in a new Games record. Lewis Clareburt has finished his Commonwealth Games campaign with a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley in Birmingham on Thursday morning.

Swimmers have commended the "hard work" and "fantastic performances" of three-time Birmingham Commonwealth Games medalist Lewis Clareburt.

we wouldn't even have ten 50 metre pools in the whole of New Zealand. It's just crazy. It was a great race and that was the big thing," he said. "That was a good performance. "There is, on the Gold Coast, something like ten 50 metre pools in a small area... He described being on the world stage as a "dream come true." "His last turn possibly cost him.

The medley specialist has still emerged as one of the standout performers in the Birmingham pool.

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I just knew she would gas after a minute I just had to keep going and be a little bit of a dogfight. The bronze bout was a close thing but de Villiers kept her calm and got the win just at the end. He was pinned by Canada's Marc Deschenes early in the gold medal bout to lose by Ippon. She defeated fellow Kiwi Hayley Mackey in the quarter-finals, one of her students at the judo club she runs with husband Jason Koster in Christchurch. She was then defeated by England's Emma Reid in the semifinals. I'm ruthless on the ground so I knew I was going to get it," she told Sky Sport. It wasn't what I wanted but I'm still glad I was able to represent New Zealand and get us another medal.