Bethany Firth starred on the second day of competition at the British Para-Swimming International Meet by securing her second world record in the 200m Individual Medley.
Firth lowered the world record in the 100m Breaststroke to get an ideal start to the Meet and continued to impress in Glasgow by knocking two second off the world record.
Firth was in the lead from the start of the race and continued her dominant performance throughout the race. She set the SM14 record to 2:22.14 and swam under the IPC Swimming World Championship qualification time.
“I think this week is going really well,” Firth said. “I am really happy with how it’s swimming and I’m really glad everyone is supporting me at home. It really encourages me and it’s really helping.
“I do feel more confident with the IM than the Breaststroke and the Breaststroke is hard in that race but I think that since I got the world record yesterday it has really encouraged me to go a bit faster and it showed in the pool tonight.”
Four-time Paralympic Champion Ellie Simmonds (Loughborough University) took the silver with a time of 3:06.44 (962 points). The time puts her in contention for selection for the IPC Swimming World Championships.
Jessica-Jane Applegate (UEA Norwich) took the bronze with 936 points and a time of 2:27.37.
The men’s 200m Individual Medley saw Ollie Hynd (Nova Centurion) secure silver with a time of 2:24.00 which earned him 937 points.
In this morning’s heats, Hynd swam to 2:23.99 and both times put him in contention for selection for this summer’s World Championships.
“This pool holds some good memories for me and I really enjoy racing here,” Hynd said. “It was a little bit slower than this morning which I am a bit disappointed about. But I got the time so that is good.
“Trials are always a stressful time so to have got the time this morning meant I could enjoy tonight a little bit more. We always want to be faster in finals but it wasn’t to be tonight but I am happy to have got the time.”
Other athletes that swam to the time in the 200m Individual Medley are Sascha Kindred (SM6, Leominster) and Jack Thomas (SM14, Swansea Aquatics).
Kindred touched in his heat in 2:42.82 and then 2:44.53 in the final while Thomas lowered the British SM14 record in the heat with a time of 2:17.60. He swam to 2:17.87 in the final.
National Performance Centre’s Hannah Russell (S12) won the bronze in the 50m Freestyle with a time of 27.64 and a total 922.
City of Manchester’s Matthew Walker won the gold medal in the men’s 50m Freestyle with a time of 28.36 and took a total of 929 points.
Lyndon Longhorne, who trains at the National Performance Centre in Manchester, broke the SM4 British 150m Individual Medley record twice through the day. He set it at 2:49.91 in the heats and then swam to 2:49.60 in the finals.