There are a lot of Australians bemoaning the 2026 Commonwealth Games being held in Glasgow instead of regional Victoria, but don't make the mistake of thinking Iona Anderson is one of them.Anderson emerged as Australia's biggest backstroke star of these Games when undisputed queen Kaylee McKeown withdrew due to glandular fever.In the 200m, she finished sixth, over two seconds slower than the time she swam at the Australian trials in June.But in the 100m, she touched first and it could not have been a better place for her first individual gold medal at a senior meet, storming past Canadian veteran and nine-time Commonwealth medallist Kylie Masse.Anderson got it done in the home of her forebears, if not herself, welcoming the controversial late change to the Scottish capital."Personally, for me, I think Glasgow's better than Victoria So it was great to come back here and do it."Basically her entire family is from Scotland, Grangemouth on her mum's side and Dumfries and Galloway on her dad's.Anderson was even named after the small island of Iona off the west coast of the country.As she took her victory lap, the 20-year-old found her grandma Pam, who had been riding every drop of water displaced by Anderson's furious charge home."She was pretty emotional, there wasn't many words," she said."She's just really happy and stoked for me