Australia’s stranglehold over the pool in Glasgow could not be better summed up than in an extraordinary passage which saw three golds and an emotional goodbye inside 5 minutes at Tollcross.

On a day in which the Dolphins claimed another nine gold medals to make it a massive record 35 in total at the Commonwealth Games, and a remarkable dead-heat for twin gold medals, the story of the night was a bronze for WA’s Shayna Jack in her final swim for the green and gold.

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The women’s 50m freestyle saw another clean sweep as Meg Harris and Alex Perkins overtook Jack in the final strokes of her swimming career with the three women blitzing the rest of the field.

Jack was welcomed on the top step by Harris, who raised her arm, with the 27-year-old once again moved to tears before being given a guard of honour by the entire swim team poolside.

After announcing her retirement on the eve of the games, Jack finished her final meet with a team gold and two individual bronzes, with the impact she’s had clear to see with Perkins saying it was an “honour” to share the pool with Jack in her final race.

Jack admitted it was hard to stay composed knowing it would be the end.

“I’m proud of everything in the end,” Jack said.

“Sometimes it’s hard to get up knowing it was the end. Being able to compose myself was really hard. I couldn’t have done it without my teammates and my beautiful family in the stands.

“I just hope I made my country proud, and I hope everyone at home is proud of everything I’ve done, but also the person I am.”

However, there was not long to digest Jack’s incredible career as Kyle Chalmers, Ben Armbruster and Cam McEvoy produced one of the greatest 50m butterfly finals ever seen.

Not only did they secure a sixth podium sweep for Australia, but they somehow managed to find two golds, with Chalmers and Armbruster finishing in a dead heat in a Games record 22.73.

McEvoy also swam under 23 seconds in one of the fastest-ever finals.

It’s the first time two Australians have finished in a dead heat for gold at the Commonwealth Games.

“Epic. It doesn’t get any better,” Armbruster said.

“Huge redemption for myself and to perform like that, I know I’m exactly where I need to be.”

“I don’t think it could be any better,” Chalmers concurred.

“We’re two country boys, and now we’re top of the Commonwealth world.

“To be able to tie in the semi and again in the final, there is no better feeling.”

However, the individual performance of the night was from Kai Taylor, who won his first individual gold medal in a boilover in the 200m freestyle.

In a stacked field, all eyes were on Sam Short and England’s James Guy in the middle of the pool, but Taylor burst out of the blocks in lane one and never looked back.

He led from start to finish to produce what was perhaps Australia’s most unexpected gold from the pool at these Games in what was described as a smash and grab by great Ariane Titmus.

“Honestly, I don’t think it’s sunk in yet. I’m just over the moon,” Taylor said.

“I just wanted to go out hard, in the outside lane, and I was paying the price in the last 50, but I dug deep.”

“It’s been amazing. I’ve worked extremely hard over the past year, and I’m just so happy.”

Despite missing out in the 200m, Short responded in the 1500m less than two hours later, holding off a fast-finishing Dan Whiffen from Northern Ireland to complete a sweep of the 400m, 800m, and 1500m events.

Britt Catelluzzo produced a personal best at the perfect time in the women’s 200m butterfly to defy local hope, Keanna McInnes, who was charging home with the crowd behind her, but the Australian held on by 0.2 seconds with Lizzy Dekkars claiming bronze.

Australia were denied a podium sweep by the barest of margins in the women’s 100m S9 freestyle with Lakeisha Patterson setting a personal best to claim gold ahead of teammate Emily Beecroft.

However, having led in the early stages, Victoria Belando Nicholson came up short by 0.02 seconds to take fourth.

Fittingly, the swimming program was rounded off by the men’s and women’s 4x100m medley relays, where Australia made it a clean sweep of the team events in Glasgow.

Having both been in third at the halfway mark, Alex Perkins and Matthew Temple produced stunning butterfly legs to put Australia in the lead, allowing both teams to set a Games record and the men to reclaim the title they lost to England in Birmingham.

It meant that at the conclusion of the swimming program, Australia took home a massive 76 medals, with South Africa next best on 22 in what is easily our greatest ever peformance.