Shayna Jack in race against time to heal for Commonwealth Games

Australian swimmer Shayna Jack has posted a photograph from her hospital bed as a race for recovery begins ahead of the Commonwealth Games in England next month.

Controversial Australian swimmer Shayna Jack has documented her post-operation recovery from a broken hand she sustained in training last week.

The Commonwealth Games gold medallist, 23, missed the rest of the World Swimming Championships and is now in serious doubt for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games which kick off late next month.

Shayna Jack is all smiles post operation on her broken hand which she sustained during a training swim for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

In an Instagram post on Sunday, Jack said she had returned home to Brisbane and had gone straight into surgery at the St Andrews War Memorial Hospital.

“I may not be showing it before surgery but I was full of mixed emotions,” Jack’s post read. “Cannot thank the staff at St Andrew’s Hospital enough for looking after me with special mention to my amazing surgeon Dr Fredericksen.

Shayna Jack post operation after she broke her hand during a training swim for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games held next month.

“Now looking forward to getting straight back into the grind to rejoin the team in Charters on the 15th of July.”

In 2020 Jack was banned from competitive swimming for two years for a doping violation.

Her test was leaked to the public after she was forced to withdraw from the 2019 World Swimming Championship in South Korea.

Scans of Shayna Jack's hand post-operation after suffering her hand injury. It is unclear whether Jack's injury will heal in time to take her place on the Commonwealth Games team.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport originally banned Jack for four years, however, found that because she did not deliberately take the drug, the penalty would be halved.