Star swimmer Lewis Clareburt has won New Zealand's first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Clareburt was seventh at one stage in the men's 200m butterfly final, and still trailed in third with 50m to go.

But the Kiwi stormed home in a remarkable finish to pip Australian rival Harrison Turner by 0.33sec.

Clareburt trailed Turner in second to last place after two laps and then sat fourth with 50m remaining before charging past to win his third Commonwealth Games gold.

It is Clareburt’s sixth career Commonwealth Games medal. He finished in a winning time of one minute 55.05 seconds to edge Turner by 0.33s with fellow Aussie Matthew Temple in third.

Earlier, Joshua Willmer has added to Commonwealth Games gold four years ago with a silver medal swim in Glasgow this morning after initially finishing third in the 100m breaststroke SB9 final.

Willmer won gold in the SB8 category at the last Commonwealth Games but had to move up a category to SB9 for this year’s event.