Duncan Scott has hailed the Commonwealth Games as "really good" for Team Scotland in the pool - but felt they were close to even more success.
The 29-year-old, from Alloa, finished Glasgow 2026 with one gold and one bronze medal, amongst 12 that the host nation won in swimming competitions.
Scotland's most decorated OIympian, with eight podium places to his name, won Scotland's first gold of the Games, which ended on Sunday, on day two of competition.
That came in the men's 200 metres individual medley, where he set a new Commonwealth Games record of one minute and 56.38 seconds, defending the title he won four years ago in Birmingham.
Scott also medalled in the 4x100m medley, in which Dean Fearn, Joshua Mitchell, Lucy Grieve and Emma Wood progressed to the final, with a Scottish record of 3:48.35.
Scott, Matthew Ward, Angharad Evans, and Keanna Macinnes, the latter two of which also won individual medals, then raced in the final.
Macinnes handed over to Scott for the anchor leg, with Scotland in sixth, but the Wee County star showed his class in chasing down the field, moving to fifth with 50m to go.
He then charged further and, to the delighted of the crowd inside the Tollcross International Swimming centre, touched home for bronze, in 3:43.70, improving the national best set in the heats.
Australia took gold, in a new Games record time, whilst South Africa were second, setting an African best in the process.
Elsewhere, Scott was fourth in the 200m butterfly - an event he won bronze in at the Gold Coast Games of 2018 - and in the men's 4x200m freestyle, in which Scotland finished 1.5 seconds behind Wales, who won bronze.
There was another fourth in the men's 4x100m freestyle, in a Scottish record time of 3:15.27, and a pair of fifth places in the 4x100m medley, and mixed 4x100m freestyle, both in new national best times.
Following the final night of action in the pool, Scott told Scottish Swimming: "It's been a really good Games reflecting on the medal count, but there were also some performances there where we were so close as well in so many other elements.
"And that's really positive.
"The fact that we had a good Commonwealth Games, but also knowing we missed out on quite a bit as well, I think that shows the strength we've got and, time after time at the Commonwealth Games, Scotland punches above it's weight, in terms of size of country we have, and the world-class swimmers we keep churning out.
"I'm incredibly proud to be part of this team."
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