Geoff Huegill celebrates after winning the men’s 50m butterfly final at the 2010 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.

Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: The Daily Telegraph GEOFF Huegill wasted no time after completing his fairytale return to the Australian swim team at the Commonwealth Games trials before declaring his intentions to return from Delhi with a gold medal.

Huegill (23.46sec) will compete at his first major international meet in six years after taking out the 50m butterfly in style at Sydney Olympic Park on Thursday night, with a time just two hundredths of a second slower then his old world record set in 2001.

The win capped a remarkable journey for the Sydney Olympic medallist, who has lost 45kg after his weight ballooned to 138kg following the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The 31-year-old, now a muscular 93kg, rated the experience on par with competing at the Sydney Games in 2000.

“It’s been a dream come true,” Huegill said.