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Matt Richards is a double Olympic relay champion and won the 2023 world 200m freestyle individual title [Getty Images]
Matt Richards has created Wales swimming history by winning a fourth Commonwealth medal at one Games.
Richards, 23, claimed silver in the 200m freestyle alongside James Guy after the Englishman recorded the same time with Australian Kai Taylor taking the gold.
Only Valerie Davies in the first Games in 1930 and Michael Richards and Martyn Woodroffe 40 years later had previously managed three swimming medals in one Games.
Matthew Richards has now surpassed them with his tally of two silver and two bronze with the swimmer having not won a Commonwealth Games medal before Glasgow.
He was part of two bronze relay squads before claiming his first individual podium position with silver in the 100m freestyle on Tuesday night.
Theodora Taylor, 17, continued her breakthrough meeting with a fourth-place finish in the women's 50m freestyle.
Wales have won six medals in the pool with three silver and three bronze, which is an improvement on the two third place finishes in Birmingham in 2022.
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