Leiston Pickett kickstarted the day for Australia as she won gold in the women's 50-metre breaststroke before Thomas Fraser-Holmes added a second in the men's 200m freestyle as he finished 0.48 seconds clear of team-mate Cameron McEvoy in a tough battle over the last lap..
Elliott took the Australian performance to another level as the teenager set a new world record time of 1:05.32 in the women's 100m freestyle S8 as she defeated England’s Stephanie Slater as fellow Aussie Lakeisha Patterson took bronze.
“I was hoping to do that," she told the ABC.
"When I knew I didn't break it this morning, I really wanted to get it tonight.
"(I've wanted to break it) since the world championships last year in Montreal.”
The Australian men's 4x100m freestyle relay team then completed a successful day in the pool in Glasgow as Tommaso D'Orsogna, Matt Abood, James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy stopped the clock in a Games record time of three minutes 13.44 seconds, ahead of South Africa and England.
Chad le Clos gave South Africa a fast start as they led Australia by 0.75 seconds after the opening 100m.
But it was the much-maligned figure of Magnussen, the nation’s villain after the Olympics in London two years ago, who swung the race in Australia’s favour as he delivered in the third leg, putting in a strong final 50 to close the gap to just 0.07 seconds before McEvoy entered the water for the last lap.
McEvoy and South African Caydon Muller continued to duel it out over the last 100 metres but ultimately it was the Australian who edged ahead to claim gold.
"I probably didn't get us off to the best start that we were hoping for, but still, that is what happens in the relays,” D’Orsogna told Channel 10 immediately after the race.
"If someone falls down, the rest of the boys are there to pick up the slack. That is what these boys did. A huge thank you to them.”
It wasn’t just the pool where Australia was excelling as it was another golden night in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome as well, with Jack Bobridge winning a second gold medal in as many days as he produced a stunning performance to defeat fellow Aussie Alex Edmondson in the men’s individual pursuit.
Just a day earlier, the pair had combined to win gold in the men’s team pursuit but Friday found the two Aussies pitted against each other in 4000m individual final, with 25-year-old Bobridge winning out, claiming gold in a time of 4.19.650.
Edmondson faded a little at the end to finish five seconds behind Bobridge, but it remained a quality day for the family as his sister Annette won silver in the 3000m women’s individual pursuit behind English world champion Joanna Rowsell. Australian Amy Cure claimed bronze.
“Alex is like a brother to me now," Bobridge told Fairfax. "We raced London together and we're going to be together right through to Rio (the 2016 Olympic Games) and hopefully beyond. If he won or I won, it was a win for all of us."
Kieran Modra and Jason Niblett also won bronze in the men's para time trial tandem as Peter Lewis was fourth in the men’s sprint. New Zealander Sam Webster ended up winning a tense final men’s sprint over English triple Olympic champion Jason Kenny 2-1 to end a 48-year domination of the event by Australia.
Over in Carnoustie, Laura Coles took out the nation’s first shooting gold medal as she won the women’s skeet event on Friday in Glasgow.
Twenty-seven-year-old Coles shot 14 out of 16 targets in the gold medal shoot-off to edge out Welsh hope Elena Allen by a single target.
Cypriot Andri Eleftheriou won the bronze medal shoot-off as another Australian, Lauren Mark, made finished in sixth.
Coles, though, appeared set for a big day when she qualified for the event by hitting 70 targets from 75 shots, an effort one shy of Mark’s Commonwealth Games record, set in Manchester in 2002.
In a bizarre twist of fate, Coles said her success can be traced back to former Prime Minister John Howard’s gun buy-back scheme, implemented following the 1996 tragedy at Port Arthur.
“Pop had shot clay targets in the past and given away the sport. But he'd kept his gun until the gun buy-back, where you either had to get a gun cabinet or hand your guns into the police," Coles told Fairfax.
"My Grandad didn't want to get a gun cabinet so my Dad already had one because he had guns. And there was no way he was going to hand his guns in, so Pop just gave all his guns to my Dad and in there was a 12-gauge trap gun.”