Thorpe stops with three

Defending champion Michael Klim won the 100m freestyle semi-final in a Commonwealth record time of 48.81 seconds. Team-mate Chris Fydler was second 49.62 and Thorpe third in 49.71.

American Neil Walker was the winner of the other semi-final in 49.70s, one-hundredth of a second faster than Thorpe.

Thorpe has set three world records, twice in 200m and in 400m, in the last three days and has won three gold medals.

O8217;Neill won her first freestyle title at the championships in the women8217;s 200-metre final. The Olympic 200m butterfly champion beat Americans Lindsay Benko and Ellen Stonebraker to win the final in a Commonwealth record time of one minute, 58.17 seconds.

Malchow swam the second fastest time in history to claim the 200 metres butterfly gold medal. He clocked one minute, 55.41s 8212; just 0.19s outside Russian Denis Pankratov8217;s 1995 world record.