By Andy Hampson, PA Sport

P>Adam Whitehead failed in his bid to complete a breaststroke double on Sunday night.

The 100m gold medal-winner was forced to settle for fourth in the 200m final as Piper won in a time of 2:13.10.

Aussie Jim Piper held off a powerful finish from South Africa's Terence Parkin with Canadian Michael Brown taking the bronze medal.

Whitehead's disappointment came after South African Roland Schoeman had earlier ended Mark Foster's eight-year reign as Commonwealth 50m freestyle champion.

Commonwealth record-holder Schoeman snatched victory by just 0.01secs from Australia's Brett Hawke in a time of 22.33secs in the final.

Foster, winner in both Victoria and Kuala Lumpur, had to settle for bronze after clocking 22.47.

Afterwards Foster could not hide his disappointment saying: "I'm bigger, stronger, fitter and more experienced than before and it still wasn't there," he said. "I was certainly up for it but I'm just not doing myself justice.

"Maybe I've been racing too much. I've got to look at it closely and find out what's wrong."

Petria Thomas claimed her third gold medal of the Manchester Games with a convincing victory in the 200m butterfly.

The 26-year-old, a winner in both the 100m freestyle and 4x100m relay, led from start to finish to win from England's Georgina Lee in 2:08.40.

Lee's silver was her second medal of the Games after her gold in the 4x200m relay.

Portsmouth's Margaretha Pedder held off a strong late challenge from Canada's Jennifer Button to take bronze.

"I've come fourth and fifth so often that to finish on the podium is just tremendous," said Pedder, 22.

"I'm one of the happiest people out there. It was grit and determination that got me there."

Jennifer Reilly followed up her success in the women's 200m individual medley with gold in the 400m event.

The 19-year-old maintained half a length's advantage over Kiwi Elizabeth van Welie for much of the race to win in 4:43.59.

England's double gold medallist from the 400m and 800m freestyle, Rebecca Cooke, finished in joint fourth alongside Elizabeth Warden.

Cooke recovered from seventh at the halfway mark to clock a personal best of 4:47.23 but had too much to do on her specialist discipline to prevent Jessica Abbott of Australia taking bronze.

Grant Hackett claimed Australia's fourth gold of the night as he completed his expected victory in the men's 1500m freestyle.

Hackett, with four medals to his name already but for once with no Thorpe to contend with, romped home in a time of 14:54.29.

It was well outside his own world record but still almost 13 seconds ahead of silver medal-winner Graeme Smith of Scotland.

Smith and Australian Craig Stevens, swimming either side of Hackett, were neck and neck for most of the race but the Scot powered ahead in the final length to take second spot.

England's Adam Faulkner claimed fourth place.

"To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get closer to Grant," said Smith.

"When he is not at his best, I should have capitalised. I'll have to go away and look at it.

"But it's been a great week for Scotland and the rest of the home nations. To have the England swimmers cheering me on tonight was really good."

The Australian domination of the evening's proceedings continued as their women's team triumphed in the 4x100m medley.

In a tight contest, Jodie Henry did just enough on freestyle anchor leg to edge out the South Africans and take victory in a Commonwealth Games record time of 4.03.70.

England's quartet of Sarah Price, Kate Haywood, Lee and Karen Legg claimed bronze.