Commonwealth Games medals table LIVE: Full standings as Aimee Willmott takes GOLD

The 2018 Commonwealth Games is underway in Australia and you can get the updated medals table right here.

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have all sent their teams to Gold Coast seeking to bring back medals.

There are some heavy favourites for podium places, such as diver Tom Daley, swimming sensations Adam Peaty and Jazz Carlin, and the Brownlee brothers.

Australia will also be hoping for a medal-filled Commonwealth Games, while Canada, India and New Zealand all have large squads competing.

But which country will top the medals table? Back in 2014 in Glasgow, England came out victors with 58 golds, with Australia (49), Canada (32) and Scotland (19) trailing behind.

It could certainly be a different story this year, however.

Commonwealth Games medals table

Mack Horton gave Australia a golden start before their women's 4x100m freestyle relay team smashed the world record as the hosts grabbed two titles on the first day of swimming at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Thursday.

Horton became the first Australian since Ian Thorpe in 2002 to win the men's 400m freestyle and clinched the host nation's first gold of the Games before the relay team ended the session in a world record time.

The Australian quartet of Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell were roared home by a fervent crowd to clock three minutes, 30.05 seconds and break their own record of 3:30.65 set at the Rio Olympics.

Canada finished second in 3:33.92 with England third almost five seconds further back.

"We weren't expecting that at all tonight," Bronte Campbell told reporters. "When we set the world record (at Rio) it was a really quick time and we weren't expecting to get near it tonight. I don't know how that happened.

"I think there is something to be said about a home-crowd advantage. We've never had that before and we can see what that does for us."