BRITAIN OFF TO GOLD WINNING START
British swimmers Liam Tancock and Lizzie Simmonds won gold
in Sydney to start their competitive season strongly at the
Australian leg of the FINA World Cup series (Short Course).
Double World Championship medallist Tancock (Loughborough
University) set a new British record in the heats of the 100m
Individual Medley and then lowered it once more on his way
to winning gold in the final in a time of 53.71.
Australians Leith Brodie in 54.00 and Adam Lucas in 55.37
took silver and bronze respectively and in doing so pushed
out Britain's Gregor Tait (City of Edinburgh) into fourth
in a time of 55.79.
European Junior Champion Simmonds (Lincoln Vulcans) continued
to impress in her transition to the senior ranks and was a
convincing winner of the 200m Backstroke in 2:05.21. Meagen
Nay of Australia took the silver in 2:06.65 while her team
mate Tayliah Zimmer secured the bronze in 2:07.82.
Britain took four medals from day one of the competition
with a silver and bronze also added to the ranks along with
three Scottish Records.
Ellen Gandy (Beckenham) took silver in the 100m Butterfly
in a time of 59.36. Gold went to Australia's Felicity Galvez
in 57.63 and Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden took the bronze in 59.47.
Fran Halsall (City of Liverpool) was fifth in 59.82.
Jo Jackson (Derwentside) grabbed the bronze in the Women's
800m Freestyle in a time of 8:28.16 while Kylie Palmer of
Australia won the gold in 8:15.96 while Yurie Yano of Japan
took silver in 8:26.14.
Hannah Miley (Garioch) bettered the Scottish Record for the
200m IM twice in the heats and final and swam 2:11.92 to take
fourth place with gold going to Stephanie Rice of Australia
in 2:10.88.
British team mate Cailtin McClatchey (Loughborough University)
also set a Scottish Record in the heats of the 200m Freestyle
when she went 1:57.52. However, McClatchey was unable to improve
on that in the final when she finished seventh.
City of Newcastle's Chris Cook finished just out of the medals
in the Men's 50m Breaststroke when he came home fourth in
27.60. Gold went to Christian Sprenger in 27.12.
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