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Welcome to Germany's capital city, Berlin, for the European swimming | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Championships. In 2012 when Team GB was riding the crest of a wave | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
swimming was the one sport that underperformed. At last year 's | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
World Championships we barely made a splash, bringing home just one | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
bronze medal. British women was dead in the water, we had sunk without | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
trace, something had to change. For the British swimmers competing at | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
last months Commonwealth Games it really was case of sink or swim. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
COMMENTATOR: Ross Murdoch is going to take the gold for Scotland, and | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
utterly brilliant swim, can you believe it? Look at that, he is just | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
realising what he has done. Halsall looks like she is going to get it, | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
another Commonwealth record. It is called again for Fran Halsall. A | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
great swim from Chris Walker-Hebborn. Hannah Miley wins | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
gold for Scotland, brilliant swim from her. Can add PC win the gold? I | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
think he is going to, yes he does. -- Adam Peaty. Jazz Carlin gets gold | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
for Wales, what a brilliant swim it was. That is an enormous thing to | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
do. Gold. Then proud, England. Nobody expected anybody other than | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Australia to top the medal table at the Commonwealth Games. Just look at | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
the home nations. Combines they had 15 gold medals. Only four behind | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Australia, how good sign is this for British swimming? Fantastic, in | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
world terms USA is the powerhouse, but below that Australia is probably | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
the second best nation in the world. For GB, the team as a whole, running | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
close, it was exciting. Without Australia and China, some of the big | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
hitters, how big is the opposition at the Europeans? Good, in world | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
terms if you look at the best teams in the world, USA, Australia, China, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Japan, Brazil. With certain swimmers in certain events there are other | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
countries. European swimming has been strong across the years, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Germany, Italy, France, all have good swimmers. Reading between the | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
lines, grasping at straws, Team GB could do very well here. They should | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
do very well. It was a huge surprise, not huge, but look two | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
years ago to the Olympic Games as last year the World Championships | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
with one bronze medal, it was not looking very good. To coming here | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
after the Commonwealth Games I am optimistic. They will have | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
confidence. Absolutely. It is amazing how in two years they can | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
make a huge difference. A lot of the swimmers are very young, 18, 20, in | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
another two years time for the Olympics they will be towards their | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
prime. Not all of the big hitters are here, why not? Some people like | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Hannah Miley, Michael Jamieson, Siobhan Marie O'Connor, they looked | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
at the Commonwealth Games, that was the major meat for the summer. I | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
would have said you are racing, in shape, just come here. For those | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
swimmers within their programme, they said that is the focus for the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
summer, they will take it easy. It is a lot of hard work on your mind | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
and body going into the Olympics. That get cracking with the men's 400 | :04:17. | :04:28. | |
meter freestyle. -- let's get cracking. COMMENTATOR: We start with | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the men's 400 meter freestyle. Steven Milne is arguably the | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
favourite. The swimmers just coming out. A massive opportunity for | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
Lelliott. Ahead of the local favourite who finished ninth in the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
heat. It really is wide open for the rest of the field. They will be | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
thinking, this is my big opportunity to take a gold medal at the major | :05:02. | :05:02. | |
games. Who got the best start? Closest to | :05:03. | :05:18. | |
us, Lelliott, good start from him but over on the far side, well away, | :05:19. | :05:33. | |
it looks like Stjepjanovic doing well. Going out too hard on that | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
first 50. Use holding onto that lead. They will be looking to reel | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
him in. Only 150 metres to go for the Serb to hold on. His tactic is | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
to go out like a hair on the greyhound track. Everybody has a | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
chance, I have to take the raids on. His last 50 metres is going to be in | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
a world of pain and it will be down to the swimmers who have tasted | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
better. Stephen Milne is in one of those centre lanes. A little bit of | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
the pace. He will need to step up to get in with the medal. The other | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
British swimmers still holding onto second place. Still over two seconds | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
lead for the Serbian. At the moment does not look like anybody will be | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
able to reel him in. He was born in Abu Dhabi but chose to swim for | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Serbia because that is where his parents were from. He looks like he | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
might win the first medal of the meat for Serbia. This is where you | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
feel you have an elephant on your back. Making a big move. The | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
Italians have a great history of distance freestyle swimming. Less | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
than 25 metres to go and the Serbian is hanging on, it is tight with five | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
metres. What a swim to take gold. A superb Bronze for Lelliott. | :07:19. | :07:31. | |
Stjepanovic really took that race on. You would not have thought | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
coming into the meat that Lelliott would be walking out of here with a | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
bronze medal. It is the teenager from Bath who will be on the medal | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
roster later. Unbelievable. I was not expecting that. I knew I could | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
do better from this morning. After I talked to my coach, he said I was | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
going to hard down the first 200. I tried to work the arms more and | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
focus on the legs, it really paid off. First senior medal for him, how | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
much confidence will it give Lelliott? He came sixth in the 1600 | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
freestyle. A shorter distance, but a mature swim on the outside of the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
pool, could not see anyone else and stuck to his own race plan. 19 years | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
of age with two years to go until the Olympics. Not a great result for | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Stephen Milne. Sometimes it is about just making the final. He went in | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
fastest. We thought he had a big shout. He had a lot of big names | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
around him. A lot of people save stuff for the final. Different race | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
tactics can throw you. He stuck to his own race. Through James Guy into | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
the mix, he got a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games for England. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
His time would have won that race. It is really exciting times. Cue | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
James Guy throwing things at the telly. The women's 100 metre | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
individual medley. Anna Miley gave the home crowd plenty to shout | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
about. She was pushed by Eddie Wilmot. It looks like it will be | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Anna Miley, she is streaking away, this is a brilliant swim, Hannah | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
Miley wins gold for Scotland. Brilliant swim for Hannah Miley. No | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
Hannah Miley at the European Championships. It gives a new Wilmot | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
the chance to step out from under her shadow. -- gives Amy Wilmott. | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
What an extraordinary swimmer Katinka Hosszu is, of Hungary. | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
Belmonte in second place is a world medallist. She has been taken apart | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
by horses at the 200 metre mark. -- taken apart by Katinka Hosszu. She | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
is miles ahead of the field. Wonderful swimming. So far inside | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
that European record. If there is a weakness to the medley it will be | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
the breaststroke for her. I cannot see anyone challenging Katinka | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Hosszu. When she turns onto the freestyle she will be so strong. Amy | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Wilmott having a good breaststroke leg. Mireia Belmonte still going | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
well. A new expect to see Amy Wilmott very | :10:31. | :10:44. | |
strong in the closing stages of this 400 metre medley. She has moved into | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
third place but it is Katinka Hosszu who is just powering through. No | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
surprise, the amount of training and racing this girl does it is no | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
surprise to see her really dominating this race. Belmonte and | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Amy Wilmott will not know what is going on here, they will think they | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
are having a shocking performance but that is not the case, it is | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Katinka Hosszu who is putting together the best 400 metre medley | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
of her life here. She will turn in the scary time here of 3:26, she has | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
every chance of breaking the European record. The big question is | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
can Amy Wilmott with 100 meters to go hold it together for a medal? She | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
taken Maria Belmonte. What a battle between the two freestylers. A new | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Wilmot very good, but Mireia Belmonte is a silver medallist. Amy | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
Wilmott could not get past Hannah Miley at the Commonwealth Games, | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
will she have any luck here? This is like a time trial swim for Katinka | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Hosszu, it is her own European record, her own best time she is | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
aiming to beat. Extraordinary swimming from the iron Lady. The | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
first of goodness knows how many races she is doing at these | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
championships. She is just holding onto that European record pace. That | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
line is moving swiftly, will she be able to hang on? She is outside her | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
European record. What time will it be? What a swim for Katinka Hosszu | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
out on her own. Belmonte got in there for second place with a silver | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
medal. Another medal for Britain and Wilmott. Hats off to Katinka Hosszu, | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
she is one tough lady. We will see her and Mireia Belmonte many times | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
this week. Congratulations to Wilmott, coached by Lisa Bates. What | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
a season she has had, really turned it around this year. Really happy | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
with that. I thought I could try and catch Belmonte but she was a little | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
bit stronger than me. I am happy with that only two weeks after the | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
Commonwealth. Day two at the European swimming | :13:15. | :13:26. | |
Championships and it is time to see a Commonwealth Games hero in action. | :13:27. | :13:27. | |
Ben Proud goes in the 1500 metres Then | :13:28. | :13:41. | |
Ben Proud goes in the 1500 metres fly. He is such an exciting | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
prospect, what makes him so good? The interesting thing is in real | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
terms he only really started training three years ago. He has | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
swum before but only been in a proper programme for three years. He | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
still has the worlds fastest time, that time would have won that race. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
He will be disappointed he did not do a little bit better but it is the | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
experience. He has got fast twitch. He has got rich? There are slow | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
twitch fibres for long distance swimmers, he is a sprinter, fast | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
twitch fibres. This is the beginning of his story. Only 19 years of age. | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
Adam Barrett as well, only .2 behind Ben Proud, that was his best time. | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Ben Proud has a bright future, if he continues training hard in the setup | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
he is in I expect huge things from that guy. Things can only get | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
better. We will get royalties from M people after this. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
He qualified second-fastest for this, but can he beat the 2011 world | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
champion Jeremy? COMMENTATOR: Ben Proud just 19 years of age. These | :15:03. | :15:14. | |
are some world-class swimmers going in this 50 metres butterfly, not to | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
mention Florent Manaudou. Two men in the centre of the pool, in lane five | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
in pink and black trunks, getting a fantastic start. Great speed. Now it | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
is about the other swimmers trying to chase him down. A fantastic start | :15:35. | :15:46. | |
from him. Looking good, but... The windows to Manaudou. Eight the gold | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
medal. Florent Manaudou was leading the race up until one stroke to Gulf | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
-- one stroke to go. Florent Manaudou got such a great start. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Look at the streamlining under the water. Absolutely beautiful | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
swimming. He is a big match player, this chap. He did not quite get his | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
finish. He let the Belarussian get back in but Ben Proud has got to be | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
so happy. And a tie for bronze between Ben Proud Andriy Govorov. | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
Four men on the podium. Ben Proud is adding to his medal collection. If | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
he put them together all at once, he would fall over? He such an exciting | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
prospect. After the Commonwealth Games gold medal, and his time in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
the 55, it would have won the race, the fastest time in the world. I'm | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
so excited because he has only really been swimming for three | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
years. Only been training properly, I mean. He is down in Plymouth, | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
training and seems to be getting a reading right. Florent Manaudou is a | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
unit. He is a strong lad, Olympic champion at the 50 free. It is a big | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
field. He can go faster. But he did well. To do all of that in such a | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
short time, to announce himself on the senior stage, credit to him and | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
his trainer and his team. If you know you are capable of a certain | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
time, what stops you delivering it always? If I knew the answer, I | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
would still be in there. It is one of those things, on a given day, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
when the gun goes off, whenever it is, it is being at your best | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
consistently and delivering. After having the Commonwealth Games four | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
weeks ago, trying to go back into training, how many weights do you | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
do, how much work in the water, trying to get it right is a fine | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
line, to peak twice but he has done a good job and I will let him off. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Congratulations to Ben Proud. Let's turn our attention to the men's 100 | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
meter backstroke and we have the Commonwealth Games champion in this, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Chris Walker-Hebborn, he qualified second fastest but if you want cops | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
what -- top spot in this one, he's going to have to see of the 2011 | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
world champion, Jeremy Stravius. COMMENTATOR: We are hoping to see | :18:09. | :18:23. | |
the calm, confident, cool Chris Walker-Hebborn we saw at the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Commonwealth Games. He will be up against Jeremy Stravius of France, | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
who anchored the freestyle team to a gold medal last night. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
As they get underway, a good start from Jeremy Stravius, really pulled | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
himself high out of the water but Christian Diener Germany in lane | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
two, close to us, has got away very fast as well. Great start from him. | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
He is really turning over. You can see the difference in his stroke | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
rate between the other swimmers. Whether he will be able to keep that | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
up over 100 metres remains to be seen. Christian Diener turns first | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
ahead of Jeremy Stravius. Where is Chris Walker-Hebborn? He has got to | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
dig deep. I would have liked to have seen a bit faster but this is where | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
he has dabbed the confidence. He is working his way back into the peel. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
He has every chance. Great swimming from Walker-Hebborn, coming through | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
the field. He is against Jeremy Stravius. Who will have the longest | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
arms? Walker-Hebborn eases past, what a swim. Gold medal, 53.32. That | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
will feel good. You don't have too many better seasons than winning | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
gold at the Commonwealth Games and the European champ in chips. He has | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
been in the wilderness for a few years but has done the business. I | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
am made up for him. -- European Championships. I'm | :19:46. | :19:58. | |
really happy with that. It has been a long season. Still got quite a few | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
races to go. That tops it off for me. I can kind of enjoy it now. I | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
can get on with it. The British team supporting him, | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
great team spirit in the camp. So many swimmers picking up medals, so | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
the atmosphere must us be fantastic at the team hotel. It is great to | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
see. He has turned it around. He could have caved in to just being | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
known as the person who could not quite deliver at major | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
championships, but this year, Chris Walker-Hebborn has turned it around. | :20:33. | :20:48. | |
STUDIO: Chris, congratulations, how impressive was that? It is the | :20:49. | :21:27. | |
nominal, to win the Commonwealth Games and then go back to back in | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
the Europeans against another world-class field. It is one of | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
those things about going from championship to championship, | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
consistency. That will do his team and him so much confidence. He has | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
got to which, hasn't he? A lot of twit. I love seeing sprinters do | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
something because historically we have been known as a nation of | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
middle and long distance swimmers. How fantastic to get the first | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
golfer Team GB? I don't want to jinx it but could we start a gold rush. | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Next up, Fran Halsall in the 50 meter fly. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
COMMENTATOR: Sarah Sjostrom in the centre of the pool, the world | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
record-holder. Fran Halsall is going to be one of the top competitors. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Are one of the top four in the world, going into the 50 metres | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
butterfly. The question is, can Fran Halsall keep it going? Can she get | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
another medal? Fantastic start from Jeanette | :22:27. | :22:40. | |
Ottesen. She really made the most of the underwater work. Fran Halsall in | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
the blue hat, you can see, three lanes out, going well. Inge Dekker | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
moving through the water well but Sarah Sjostrom is starting to ease | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
past Annette Alderson. Head town into the water. -- Jeanette Ottesen. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
You would not believe she had done the 100 free just before. Fran | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
Halsall takes bronze. Sarah Sjostrom, under 25 seconds. It | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
looked like she did not breathe at all. 24.98 and the gold medal. Fran | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
Halsall with another bronze medal for Great Britain. It is a tough | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
race, five of the fastest girls out there were in that race. It is a | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
totally different situation to what I was in in the Commonwealth Games. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
I was only one point four I did there. Hopefully I can maintain that | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
through the week and do a good 50 free towards the end of it. How | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
happy will she be with that? The bottom line is, coming into this | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
race, Sarah Sjostrom broke the world record by 0.5 seconds and she has | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
got another 0.5 seconds faster. She is another level. She is that good. | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
She is in a league of her own in a sense. So Fran putting another medal | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
in the bag, she will be pleased. It is a long summer for some of these | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
swimmers. The best thing about the British athletes coming here is | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
seeing how they performed at the Commonwealth Games and then three | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
weeks later. Some of them will get faster, they will look at their | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
programme coming into major championships in the future and | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
change their programme coming in the future and change their programme | :24:19. | :24:27. | |
coming into of the Commonwealth Games, Ross Murdoch, was more | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
surprised than anyone that he got the gold and he is up next in the | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
100 metres breast broke with Adam Peaty. This is a great chance for | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Team GB to get a gold. They were not big shocks because they have been | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
coming up on the world scene but when it came to the Commonwealth | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
Games, they took the world by storm, Adam Peaty beating Cameron van der | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Burgh and Christian Sprenger, arguably the two best breast broke | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
through Ms in the world. And then Ross Murdoch came out of Michael | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Jamieson's shadow. They are exciting, very young and they have a | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
lot more to give. We have brilliant British breast stroke swimmers. That | :24:58. | :24:58. | |
was a mouthful! COMMENTATOR: The two British | :24:59. | :25:16. | |
swimmers are in the centre of people. -- of the pool. Great start | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
coming from Adam Peaty. And Ross Murdoch. But also, in the early | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
stages, it is the Frenchman who got away well. The power of Adam Peaty, | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
lifting himself high out of the water. Ross Murdoch with a slightly | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
different stroke, smoother. Adam Peaty finishes strongly but Deirdre | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
is to tennis, the Lithuanian, out fast as well. -- Airdrie is to | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
tennis. He knows what it is all about. Adam | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
Peaty will have to work here. Maybe he is holding something back because | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
he seems to be turning it on now, going a bit more to the arms, | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
working them. Can he and Ross Murdoch pull through on the second | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
leg? What a battle unfolding in the middle. Ross Murdoch, try to hold | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
off Adam Peaty. The Lithuanian dropping off and Adam Peaty is | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
powering through in the centre of the pool, like he did in Glasgow. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Lighting to the finish, but a gold medal nonetheless for Adam Peaty and | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Ross Murdoch gets a silver. The Lithuanian was out so quickly and | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
gets a bronze. So made up for Adam Peaty, what a season, only just | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
turned 19 as well. 58.96, the winning time. Absolutely amazing, | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
coming into the start of the season, I did not have that many objectives. | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
The Commonwealth Games was the main aim, so to carry it over to the | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
Europeans and perform that well, last night as well, amazing. It is | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
great for me to come here, my first European Championships and I put | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
myself in a position to get a medal and delivered. So, we really are | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
very spoilt for men's brushstrokes swimming in Britain at the moment. | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
-- breaststroke. These two are just 19 and 20. No reason to think we | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
won't be watching these guys swim and enjoying it for a few more | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
years. He still looks 11th. He has got the body of a wet left about his | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
face looks about 11. What a summer this guy has had. STUDIO: A British | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
one-two and a phenomenal finish by Adam Peaty. Could this be going any | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
better? I have not seen an evening where we have done a one-two in the | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
Europeans ever, or for a long-time. If you watch the way he swims the | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
race, he sits back down the first length, they are all in a line and | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
then he brings himself through. It shows you that he has his own plan | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
and he has such confident at the moment. A lot of other people would | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
try to go with other swimmers but he does his own race. Is that something | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
you get from competing more often? Absolutely, the more you race at | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
this level, the more confidence you become. You have got the knowledge | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
on the blocks to know you can do your own race and not get carried | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
away by other people. Going back to the home programme, because we have | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
these two, Jamieson, Willis, every race they have got at home is like a | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
World Championship because they have got the best in the world around | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
them. They are pushing themselves to another level every time. I can feel | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
you getting very proud. Young years, walking around the poolside | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
now, and I know a lot of people because I was in the sport for 25 | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
years at a senior level, people ask me how exciting it is because every | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
session, we have got a name and an opportunity. And those guys are | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
delivering. It is easy going in number one but you have to come out | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
the same. Seeing Adam Peaty do that is exciting and makes me feel proud. | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
Hopefully Lizzie Simmonds can get caught up with it because she goes | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
in the 200 meter backstroke now. By her own admission, she has has had a | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
couple of years but she qualified second fastest for this. Time for | :29:05. | :29:05. | |
the final. Commentator you need to watch out | :29:06. | :29:22. | |
for Duane da Rocha Marce and Simona Baumrtova of the Czech Republic. The | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
final is underway, and in Lane 5, we will be watching for Lizzie | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
Simmonds. What a fantastic start, and also a good start from Simona | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
Baumrtova of the Czech Republic. Both of them have left Duane da | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Rocha Marce way behind Angie is having to fight to come through. We | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
could not have asked for a better start from Lizzie Simmonds. Now she | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
needs to put the race together. Simona Baumrtova leading at the 50 | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
metre mark. She is a 100 metres specialist so no surprise she will | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
take the race on but will she be able to hold on in the closing | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
stages? She is great on the short course, Simona Baumrtova, ten medals | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
and the European Short course. The long format might start to tell. | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
Lizzie Simmonds is in a good place with Jenny Mensing, getting in the | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
mix but you don't want to lose touch too much. I was getting nervous, | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
telling her not to go out too fast but now I am saying, come on, | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
Lizzie, you have to get with it, stay with them all the way and don't | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
watch lane for too much. Swim your own race. -- Lane four. Baumrtova is | :30:26. | :30:39. | |
leading. The Burling goal -- the Burling girl swimming in front of | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
her home crowd. -- Berlin. Simmons has given herself every | :30:43. | :31:04. | |
chance at 150. Fabulous underwater work from Lizzie Simmonds. There you | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
go, it is not all about the swimming, the turns have to be | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
fantastic as well. The work she has been doing with Dave McNulty in Bath | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
is paying off. She could win this. What a swim from Lizzie Simmonds. A | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
beautiful turn has put her in contention. But will Marce get the | :31:25. | :31:41. | |
touch? DA Rocha Marce gets the gold medal. She looked very composed | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
there, Lizzie Simmonds. Another medal for Great Britain, very close | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
to gold. I am sure Lewsey will be happy to be on the podium. A little | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
disappointed not to have got the gold, I tried a tactically different | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
race. It backfired because they swam a similar type of race, thought | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
other people would be out faster than me. It is a good learning | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
experience and I am pleased to be back on the podium. That was | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
amazing, she was nearly not in it, then she nearly won it. For 150 | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
amazing, she was nearly not in it, were not in the race then came back | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
in the last 50 metres. It is about doing your own race plan. The last | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
turn she did nearly 50 metres underwater. She stayed under and | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
came back, brilliant. Incredible to see because she popped up after | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
everybody else and when she did she was ahead, it was like, when will | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
she surface? They will train batch so much in the training room. You | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
can do 50 metres on every wall underneath the water, that is XT | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
metres that can be done underwater. Coming off the last war, your legs | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
and arms are burning, your lungs, stay underwater, that is hard. -- 60 | :32:54. | :33:02. | |
metres. She has shown real strength of character. Look at any athlete, | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
there is no bible for an athlete, this is the training pattern you | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
follow, to get the best out of yourself. She is in Bath, should one | :33:10. | :33:22. | |
Maria O'Connor, Chris Walker -- Chris Walker-Hebborn. We have the | :33:23. | :33:35. | |
mixed four X 100 meter relay. Italy were the fastest qualifiers, in the | :33:36. | :33:37. | |
centre of the pool. COMMENTATOR: Three out of the eight | :33:38. | :33:51. | |
going on in the backstroke. It makes for a very strange race. Such a | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
massive mix. You can see the lead that the men get over the women. | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
Having to dive into that kind of wave and wash and try to claw it | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
back. We will see how it unfolds. In the early stages four men leading | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
the way. It is Russia just ahead of Great Britain's Chris | :34:15. | :34:25. | |
Walker-Hebborn. Chris Walker-Hebborn in the blue hat in the centre of the | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
pool starting to come through. Morris of starting to fight back. | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
Chris Walker-Hebborn starting to come through. Onto the breaststroke | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
leg it is Adam Peaty who will be going in the water. For Great | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
Britain. What a start, what an amazing start from Adam Peaty, | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
fantastic performance from him there. I have not seen too many of | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
these mixed medley relays, but it cannot harm being out in front. He | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
is going very well, Adam Peaty. He is up against Italy in lane for. | :35:03. | :35:12. | |
They have Pellegrini on the last leg. Fran Halsall would not mind a | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
few metres advantage over Pellegrini. A male swimmer will be | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
going up against Jemma Lowe on the butterfly leg. It is quite | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
misleading how far he is ahead of the Russian swimmers, Italy have two | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
female swimmers on the second half, same as Great Britain. Unlikely they | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
will be able to get past, but is that lead going to be enough? What | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
can the Russian do? It is Jemma Lowe, the Welsh swimmer who swam for | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
them at the Commonwealth Games in the water on this 100 meter | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
butterfly leg, she could not have asked for a better opportunity. Adam | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
Peaty swam a fantastic breast stroke leg. Here come the Russians. Oh my | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
god, this is where the mixed medley relay gets interesting. Jemma Lowe | :36:10. | :36:18. | |
has got to get into the wall, it is all about what sort of finish the | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
Russians will have here. They have every chance, Great Britain, of | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
taking home the gold medal. This is where it hurts on butterfly, ten | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
metres to go. Fran Halsall is no slouch, she will love this | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
opportunity. A great takeover. Great Britain leading with 100 metres to | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
go. 3.1 seconds clear of the Netherlands and 3.2 clear of the | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
Dutch. No more male swimmers to go, certainly not the medal contenders, | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
surely nobody can get close to Fran Halsall, she has swum an event here | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
this evening, but she will have the legs to hang on. Great turn from | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
her. I may have doubted the mixed medley relay, did not think it was | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
up to much, but I have changed my opinion, what a fantastic | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
performance from Great Britain coming down the last 50 metres with | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
Fran Halsall, three of these four swimmers have gone to light. Superb | :37:18. | :37:23. | |
anchor leg from Fran Halsall, she loves bringing the team home. She | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
had an insurmountable lead from Jemma Lowe. Great Britain take the | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
gold medal, mixed medley relay. Netherlands take silver and Russia | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
in bronze medal position. That is the third gold medal of the night | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
for Great Britain. We know it is a new event, but it is a world | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
record, 3.44, no idea whether it is good or not because we have not seen | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
too many of these races. It is a new event, but it is a world record for | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
Great Britain. Previously held by Australia. It was set earlier this | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
year in Perth. Two seconds quicker. It was so good, such a good relay to | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
be part of, to going ahead and think all I have to do is maintain this, | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
it was fantastic, credit to these guys for putting me in this | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
position, it was really good fun. Can you put your finger on where it | :38:15. | :38:22. | |
was one? -- won. This morning we met up, we knew we had something special | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
come into this, we got giddy about it. All three of us had races this | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
evening, to come back and do that again and get a medal and a record | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
is more than we could ask for. Well done. Three of those four have | :38:34. | :38:45. | |
already been on the podium, two have already heard the national anthem | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
tonight. What an evening swimming for Great Britain. An unbelievable | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
start of the European Championship. Team GB at the top of the table and | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
running away with it, aren't there? When we look at the moment we have | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
nine medals. I have never seen that before, I have been around for a | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
long time, for 25 years. It is normally dominated by Germany, then | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
France, Italy, Russia. To say we are there on top at the moment, only the | :39:16. | :39:18. | |
moment, we have a lot of good swimmers to come also we could | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
potentially be at the top of the medal table. Why is Team GB at the | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
top of the table? It is a golden era, when we have good swimmers, it | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
is whether you leave a legacy. I said there was a big hole, Jazz | :39:34. | :39:42. | |
Carlin stepped into empty shoes. David Wilkie, Adrian Moorhouse, | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
Duncan Goodhew, James Gibson, we still have good breaststroke is. We | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
need good swimmers in certain events. -- good breaststroke | :39:51. | :39:58. | |
swimmers. Is Team GB good enough to top the medal table on the world | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
stage? In the Olympic Games, World Championships, America is the | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
dominant force. Lucy Franklin, Michael Phelps, but then in any | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
race, they are odds-on favourites to win. We have Ross Murdoch, Fran | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
Halsall, Hannah Miley, Adam Peaty, they could potentially be Olympic | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
champions. We have never had handfuls of swimmers that I have | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
said could be potential Olympic champions. Surely performances like | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
this make Team GB seem a force to be reckoned with. You will not write | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
them off. Take Sarah Sjostrom, the world 's best swimmer at certain | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
events at the moment. And I say that right? I am leaving the musical | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
references to you. She is another level. Look at James Franks... The | :40:46. | :40:57. | |
best in their events. Some events will be weaker than others. Some of | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
the worlds best swimmers are here and we can consistently compete | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
against them and beat them, when the rest of the world is in there, we | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
can still do well. Plenty to be excited about in the short and | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
long-term. Can Team GB top of the medal table at the end of the week? | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
Potentially, yes, we have a lot of good swimmers to come. Adam Peaty | :41:18. | :41:23. | |
and Fran Halsall go again. There are several swimmers not here, a lot of | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
top swimmers are not here. If we put them in I can guarantee we would be | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
top of the medal table in Europe, that is exciting. It gives the | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
others who are here something to aim for. Something to think about. Two | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
fantastic days of swimming and plenty more to come. | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
We start date three with the 1500 meter freestyle final, it featured | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
Stephen Milne and the bronze medallist from day one, J Liley at. | :41:56. | :42:02. | |
Both were dust outside the medals, finishing fourth and fifth. It was | :42:03. | :42:11. | |
won in European record time. There was no British interest in the first | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
races on day three. In the men's 200 meter individual medley, Team GB | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
against the Hungarian legend. The 200 individual medley final. | :42:24. | :42:51. | |
Good butterfly swimmer. He will take that race out. Being challenged by | :42:52. | :42:59. | |
the blur of Germany. In the lane closest to us. And Heinz of Germany | :43:00. | :43:00. | |
as well. Keebler is taking it out on the fly. | :43:01. | :43:22. | |
-- die blah stop Deibler. A beautiful view of the swimmers | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
rolling their shoulders, heads perfectly still. Just the shoulders | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
that are moving. Cseh starting to edge into the lead is now. Kicking | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
into the wall. At the halfway point it is Cseh leading. Britain's | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
Roberto Pavoni in 1's medal position at the halfway mark. What can he do | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
on the breast stroke legs? Not his strongest. He is good at freestyle | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
as well. Cseh in the centre of the pool. It is close. Come on, Pavoni, | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
this is where you have to work it. Fantastic performance here, but it | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
could be a four way split. Pavoni has to get himself in the mix. He | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
has determining one of the top three spots. Get yourself at, Roberto | :44:08. | :44:17. | |
Pavoni. It was Deibler who turned first for Germany, pursued by Cseh. | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
Four swimmers in the race for three medals. Pavoni is digging deep but | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
these medals could go absolutely anywhere at this point. Cseh | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
fighting back, so is Deibler, who will get to the wall and get the | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
touch? It is Cseh who takes gold medal for Hungary for the fifth | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
straight time. The German second and a wonderful bronze medal for Roberto | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
Pavoni. Fantastic breast stroke lead made the difference. -- leg. The | :44:50. | :44:59. | |
European bronze medal well-deserved. Confirmation of a bronze medal for | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
Pavoni. Cseh makes it five in a row and takes the gold. I am over the | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
moon, it is my first medal at a senior competition, it is great to | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
get up on the podium. I have seen a lot of guys do it from GB already | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
this week and wanted to be one of them. Today was such a close race, | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
when I finished, my first reaction was disappointment because I so how | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
close I was to the goal. -- I saw. I am happy. | :45:30. | :45:44. | |
It was so close in the end. Yes, any one of five of them could have won | :45:45. | :45:51. | |
it. But he fought for every it and got there and almost took out Laszlo | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
Cseh. Without Michael Phelps, you would have been one of the world's | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
best swimmers. Laszlo Cseh has got buckets of international experience | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
and Roberto Pavoni, not so much. When you are against someone like | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
that, can it get into your head? Before you come up to the pool | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
before the race, Laszlo Cseh has been around for a number of years | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
and achieved great excess. He would have been looking at Laszlo Cseh, | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
the way he was behaving and what he was doing, and walking out to | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
poolside, would have been nervous. But that was the thing I was most | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
impressed by. From the Commonwealth Games, to hear, Roberto Pavoni has | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
got one second faster. He and his coach will go back before the next | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
Championships, looking to do things differently. The exciting thing is, | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
he knows he can be better with different preparation. Not a bad way | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
to end the day, bronze medal for Roberto Pavoni, which wraps things | :46:44. | :46:44. | |
up for day three of competition. In the first final today, Welsh | :46:45. | :46:57. | |
woman Jazz Carlin is chasing her first European title. She got top | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
spot in Glasgow but can she retain her golden glow in Berlin? | :47:02. | :47:15. | |
COMMENTATOR: A big shout for a gold medal in this one with Jazz Carlin. | :47:16. | :47:22. | |
She is fastest on paper. But that does not mean anything. | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
So, the women's 800 meter freestyle final is underway. Jazz Carlin is in | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
Lane 4, for Great Britain. The final is underway. Jazz Carlin is in | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
reigning Commonwealth champion after that fantastic swimming Glasgow a | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
few weeks ago. You can see her in the blue swimming cap, closest to us | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
in the two yellow lanes, and one lane up from her, Mireia Belmonte | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
Garcia of Spain. She has a huge programme of events. This is Jazz | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
Carlin's first event of the Championships. But Mireia Belmonte | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
Garcia has already picked up a medal in the five K, and is doing ten pool | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
events at these championships. A different programme. She will be | :48:12. | :48:17. | |
very tough to beat. Easier to talk about the events they are not doing | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
rather than the ones they are. They are doing the majority of the | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
programme. In the early stages, important to check out Jazz | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
Carlin's turn. I think she is the fastest in the water but her turning | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
is not always the best. Mireia Belmonte Garcia, she loses maybe | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
half a metre or a meter on her. That will not do you any favours when you | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
have 15 or 16 turns to do in the event. She's the best swimmer, far | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
and away but Mireia Belmonte Garcia no pushover. Jazz Carlin got about | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
five seconds, in terms best times, but that was the Commonwealth Games. | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
These two will go head to head and have a right old ding-dong. | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
Now and 600 metres, it is a head to head battle with Jazz Carlin and | :49:04. | :49:10. | |
Maria Belmont Garcia. For the first time, Jazz Carlin pushes off the | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
wall in first place. She is starting to make a move. She is sat on the | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
hips of Maria Belmont Garcia for the majority of the race but like we saw | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
and the Commonwealth Games, she is not leaving it to a sprint finish in | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
the closing stages. She is trying to break early. At the moment, Maria | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
Belmont a Garcia not responding but what can Jazz Carlin do? Garcia has | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
been pulling away from her on every turn but Jazz Carlin is trying to | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
extend the lead, and looking like she is really managing to step up a | :49:42. | :49:48. | |
gear. Yes, come on, Jazz Carlin. You have got about 125 metres to go and | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
you are showing Marriot Belmont Garcia who the boss is. She may have | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
the stamina but you have broken Garcia who the boss is. She may have | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
with 100 metres to go. It looks like Jazz Carlin could win Great | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
Britain's fourth gold medal. Beautiful swing form Jazz Carlin. At | :50:08. | :50:18. | |
the whistle, she leads by 1.65 seconds, turning the race around in | :50:19. | :50:21. | |
the space of 100 metres. She was just behind going that point and she | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
finished that 100 metres nearly two seconds ahead. She has broken | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
Belmonte. Surely she cannot find another gear? She has left five or | :50:31. | :50:36. | |
six metres clear. With 50 metres to go in the 800 freestyle, Jazz Carlin | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
has stepped up the pace. She is dust outside the European record spit. | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
This is a fantastic swim from Jazz Carlin. -- just outside. Perfectly | :50:47. | :50:53. | |
timed. Unbelievable, in 150 metres, she has taken seven metres out of | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
it, Jazz Carlin. She knows she has won it at this stage. How good must | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
it feel? Superb swim from Jazz Carlin, she comes to the wall and | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
take the gold medal in 8:15 .54. Superb swimming, and gold again for | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
Great Britain, and gold again for Jazz Carlin. She could challenge for | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
the world record if her turning wire as good -- was as good as | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
Belmonte's. I guess I'm never happy but well done. There we have | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
confirmation, Jazz Carlin is the European champion in a new | :51:30. | :51:30. | |
championship record time. I can't believe it. Off the back of | :51:31. | :51:41. | |
the Commonwealth Games, I thought it was going to be tough but to do a | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
personal best like that, in a great race with a strong field, to come | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
out on top, I'm so happy, I can't believe it. Jazz Carlin with a big | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
smile on her face and rightly so. A championship record. She is the | :51:54. | :52:01. | |
European champion, 2014. It adds to her Commonwealth Games gold medal as | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
well. You can't tell smiling back at her, to see the big grin on her | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
face. -- help smiling. She so deserves to be on top of the podium | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
this summer. Both at the Commonwealth Games and here. She has | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
worked really hard, stepped up from the 200 and 400. Her coach said he | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
thought she would be good at 800 and it has worked. She has got the gold. | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
STUDIO: Huge congratulation, gold medal at the European Championships | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
for Jazz Carlin, back-to-back titles. She must be thrilled but | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
also relieved. She has been in Rebecca Adlington's shadow, the | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
never-never girl, and has been sick and ill going into major meetings in | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
the last couple of years. The Commonwealth Games was excellent but | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
she has gone three seconds faster, here. What was so impressive was | :52:51. | :52:56. | |
that Belmonte was with her at 650 metres and in the last 150, she tore | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
her apart and took six seconds off her. That bodes well. The only other | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
person that can stay with that pace is the American girl. It is not like | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
you are doing massive competitions every week. How easy is it to find | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
and maintain form? Can she kicked on? To me, when you do all the | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
training, identify and understand swimmer not wanting to come to the | :53:21. | :53:23. | |
Europeans. It is a long year but Ukraine a lot during the year, for | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
one competition. -- Ukraine a lot. Why not do another? She probably | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
thought she had peaked at the Commonwealth Games but she has gone | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
three seconds faster now. Is there more to come? A lot of coaches will | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
go into major meetings, seeing the way the swimmers have rested and | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
what training they do leading into competitions. Another lady who is | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
delighted she came here is one who already has a bronze medal and now | :53:52. | :53:53. | |
she goes in the 200 metres individual medley. Can she go one | :53:54. | :53:55. | |
matter? -- better. COMMENTATOR: Aimee Willmott will try | :53:56. | :54:05. | |
to challenge in this one. Katinka Hosszu, in the centre yellow | :54:06. | :54:25. | |
lanes in the black swimming hat. She holds the European record and she is | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
the class act in the field. No one should get near Katinka Hosszu. She | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
is the class act. Siobhan O'Connor might have given her a run but she | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
is not here. Aimee Willmott has put in a good fly leg, which did not | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
happen yesterday in her semifinal. She is really taking this to her. | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
There is definitely a medal up for grabs. You never know, she might | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
even be able to catch her. This is Katinka Hosszu's strongest rogue, | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
the backstroke. Breaststroke is probably her weakest but she has | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
given herself over a body length lead. No surprise to see Belmonte | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
well off the pace, having literally just finished the 800 free final. | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
Gutsy, but a pretty gruelling attempt to swim two races | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
back-to-back. It looks more like a swim down for Belmonte, for me. | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
Aimee Willmott had a fantastic breaststroke leg in the semifinals | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
she had to really work it. She needs to get into medal contention. No | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
doubt who the winner is going to be, Katinka Hosszu can have a cup of tea | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
at 150 but Aimee Willmott looks fantastic coming through, with 125 | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
to go. She has got to keep working. Then the medal will be hers. Superb | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
restaurant leg in the 400 medley gave her a bronze medal. They turn | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
for the final 50 and Katinka Hosszu is ahead of Aimee Willmott. The | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
superb breast stroke leg has put into second place. Aimee Willmott is | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
working very hard in the freestyle leg. She has got to keep the | :56:06. | :56:12. | |
Austrian firm. She has do look out for the outside lane. Aimee Willmott | :56:13. | :56:15. | |
seems to be heading. No doubt who the winner will be. Katinka Hosszu | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
has led from the gun and she is heading into the wall for a | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
fantastic swim, taking the title in a championship record time. And | :56:25. | :56:31. | |
Aimee Willmott takes silver. Lisa Zaiser of Austria takes the bronze. | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
Jamie Moore what with another medal. She had bronze and now she has a | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
silver. There is the winner, Katinka Hosszu with a championship record. | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
Fantastic swim from her, great championship record. But look what | :56:45. | :56:47. | |
it means to Aimee Willmott. She might well have a smile on her face. | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
This girl cannot stop winning championship medals. Confirmation of | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
Aimee Willmott's silver, and the championship record and second gold | :56:59. | :57:01. | |
medal of the meat for Katinka Hosszu. | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
I'm really happy with how I swam, I managed to step it up through the | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
heat and the semifinal and final. I'm chuffed I progressed my time and | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
have come away with a silver which is better than bronze. Another medal | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
for Aimee Willmott, bronze and silver, after two silver medals in | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
Glasgow. How exciting prospect is she? Very exciting, leading into | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
Glasgow, a lot of people thought she would pip Hannah for the title but | :57:31. | :57:33. | |
she has the experience and a better time and on the day she delivered. | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
After getting the experience in Glasgow and now here, we talk about | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
the Olympics in two years time but she is one to watch. I know between | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
her and Hannah, every competition they have against each other will be | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
a dogfight. She's moving from Middlesbrough to London. How will | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
that affect things? She will be moving away from family and friends | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
but potentially to a better coach? Everyone adapts in different ways | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
and react in different ways. For her, the pool in London is a really | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
inspiring environment. It is one of those. If you are not a swimmer, you | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
won't get this but some pools, you walk in and it has a wow factor. She | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
will have that everyday, the best acidity in the world, one of the | :58:15. | :58:17. | |
best coaches in the world, given what she has done with her at the | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
moment. She has got the right ingredients, and in two years time, | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
she will be one to look out for. That is not a feeling exclusive to | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
swimmers. When I go to that cool, I don't look like a swimmer but I feel | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
like one. Now for the men's 200 metre breast road. Ross Murdoch, the | :58:34. | :58:38. | |
golden boy of Glasgow 2014, going up against Andrew Willis. Earlier this | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
week, that was a Team GB one-two but that involves Adam Peaty. | :58:44. | :58:58. | |
COMMENTATOR: Varies the line-up for the men's 200 metre breast stroke | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
final and two British swimmers going in a second, Ross Murdoch, the | :59:05. | :59:06. | |
fastest qualifier. Ross Murdoch is in the centre of the | :59:07. | :59:21. | |
pool, the fastest qualifier from the heats. What can he do in this final? | :59:22. | :59:26. | |
So much promise this summer and he has already delivered so much. Marco | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
Koch, the home favourite, will be trying to win Germany's first gold | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
medal. It was quality, Andrew Willis in Lane 3, yesterday, during the | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
semifinal, started off so smoothly, starting to tie up on the fourth | :59:43. | :59:47. | |
length a bit. You have to just swim your own race on these stroke | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
events. Don't worry about yet arrested tennis in Lane 2, swim your | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
plan, make sure you are there. -- Giedrius Titenis. Ross Murdoch is so | :59:58. | :00:00. | |
composed in the centre of your picture. Beautiful, technically, | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
such a proficient swimmer. Not the biggest, but he makes up for his | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
technical ability, Ross Murdoch. Ross Murdoch, one of the new kids on | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
the block but these swimmers, they have seen enough to know that he | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
finishes strongly. At halfway, Giedrius Titenis of Lithuania is | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
leading. No surprise he has taken the race out because he is better at | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
the 100. This is where Ross Murdoch turns up the pace, this is the | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
length that makes all the difference on his races. Here he comes, | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
challenging Marco Koch, one lane up from him, closing in on him with | :00:38. | :00:55. | |
every stroke. They are ahead of the European Championship record time. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Ross Murdoch might have the ability. A fantastic turn from Koch, Murdoch | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
trying to chase him down with every single stroke. Speeding up his | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
stroke rate, Koch, his stroke is going up and down. Can he get to the | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
wall first? And is Koch gets the win, just three tenths ahead of | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
Murdoch. Titenis in third. Koch took that race on and Ross Murdoch left | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
himself a little bit too much to do. I thought Murdoch might take Koch at | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
the end. He did seem to tie up a little bit, maybe a little bit more | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
race experience, you have to keep that stroke really long. He was so | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
strong. Just into the finish. He is reaching Murdoch. Reaching at the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
end. Paul Andrew Willis just missing out. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
reaching Murdoch. Reaching at the end. Paul Andrew -- poor. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Confirmation, championship record for Marco Koch. Andrew Willis in | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
fourth place. The last 50 metres I was catching, I ran out of fuel a | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
little bit, but it is the race tactics and how it went on the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
night. It is a tough ask to come out here and PB again. There he is, Ross | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Murdoch. What a season this young man has had full is Marco Koch will | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
have looked at the race split and know how fast Ross Murdoch finished. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
He probably would have adapted his tactics for that. He took the race | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
out really strong. He was pushing for that world record, we thought he | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
would almost get it, in the end silver. A fantastic race. Have a | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
look at his progression over the last year. From just making the | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
semifinal at Barcelona and the Olympics, to beating Jamieson. Then | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
coming in here. Although he lost the race, the time he did was very close | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
to what he did in Glasgow, not far off the world record. How do you get | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
that good that quick? Just training. There is not a magic ingredient in | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
terms of... It is doing what your coach tells you to and finding work. | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
The training he is doing is paying dividends. Silver for Ross Murdoch, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
old for Koch, much to the delight of the German home crowd. Andrew Willis | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
just missed out on that one. In 1976 in Montreal we saw a bit of a breast | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
stroke legend in the shape of David Wilkie. Here is his story. My father | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
was actually working in Sri Lanka and he worked there out of the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Second World War. My uncle was there at the time and thought it was such | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
a great place. He eventually brought my mother over and I was born in | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
1964. Grew up in Sri Lanka, learned to swim there and spent many a happy | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
year there. Because I was swimming from a very young age and because we | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
spent a lot of time at the swimming club, I could not but be, good | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
swimmer. If it was up to me I would have stayed in Sri Lanka, Colombo. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
My father, being a Scot, my mother being Scottish, it was going to be a | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Scottish education for my sister and I, so we were sent back to this | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
country. We used to have swimming at a place with a school pool. There | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
was a pool attendant who looked at us and talked to my coach, Frank | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Thomas, he said we have a good little swimmer, you might come and | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
have a look at him. Frank came down. My father was in town at the time. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
He said, would David like to become a member of the Varsity club? I have | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
done a few thousand laps of this pool, I can tell you. I remember | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
when there were about 25 swimmers swimming up and down here, it was | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
like swimming in a harbour, it was that rough. Good memories and some | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
tough memories. Invariably the pool was freezing cold. We were tough | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
swimmers in those days, we could handle that. The whole thing was a | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Victorian bath and I began to train a bit harder and push myself a | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
little bit more, then I was picked for the Scottish team to swim in the | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Commonwealth Games. And I won a bronze medal. A child perhaps for a | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
home medal from David Wilkie in the men's 200 meter breaststroke final. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
They should have felt a lot more nervous than I did. I coach said | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
it's looks like I was reading a comic behind the blocks, but I do | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
not think it is true. Wilkie has made such astonishing progress | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
recently. There were 2000 people here in 1970, you can imagine the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
atmosphere in what is a huge building, a young guy swinging his | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
four lengths in his first real major international competition. Had it | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
not been in Edinburgh I probably would have not got gold medal. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Wilkie kicking as hard as he can. It is going to be Mahoney. Wilkie in | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
third. I suppose the bronze was the catalyst of the rest of my swimming | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
career. The Commonwealth Games in 1974 for me was an important things | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
going. Two golds and a silver is not bad. If I had had silver at the 1972 | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Olympics I was determined to get at least one gold medal. My main event | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
was breaststroke, I trained so hard for it. It was a joy to win, it | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
really was. David Wilkie is absolutely superb. Look at him go. | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
It is Wilkie! And it is a new world record for Great Britain and David | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Wilkie. What a swim. The gold medal for the 200 metres breaststroke in | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
Montreal 1976. And the wearer, Britain's David Wilkie. David, you | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
must be a very happy man. Very happy, I am glad the hard work I put | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
in is finally paying off. I am very proud wearer. When I went to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Aberdeen, the traffic stopped. Look for get inspired. Click on that | :07:24. | :07:43. | |
and find details of events and activities happening in your area. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Time to turn our attention to the women's 100 metres backstroke | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
featuring Jordan Amis. -- George Davies. Katinka Hosszu is | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
back in the pool. The girls are away. A good start | :08:01. | :08:15. | |
coming from Nielsen in the white swimming hat in the centre of the | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
pool. Perhaps Baumtova can do something more in the Hundred than | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
her previous race. The Dane looks brilliant. George Davies has two | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
work on the second 15. I have no idea how Katinka Hosszu is there. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
She has already swum this evening, won the medley. She might fade at | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
the end. If George Davies focuses she could get on the shoulder of | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
Nielsen. -- Georgia DAvies. She's finishing strong, so is Katinka | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Hosszu. The girls are coming back at her. It will be so tight for the | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
finish, who is going to get the touch? I joint victory, Nielsen and | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
Katinka Hosszu take joint first place, how many times have we seen | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
this at the championships already? Joint gold, Katinka Hosszu and Mia | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Nielsen. What a swim. Just look at this finish, so | :09:19. | :09:31. | |
important to spot that finish. Mia Nielsen guiding in at the end. She | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
is only 17 years of age. The experience of Katinka Hosszu, who | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
spotted that finish to perfection. It was a joint victory for Katinka | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Hosszu and Mia Nielsen with George Davies back on the podium for Great | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Britain and the bronze medal. I am really pleased I can be on the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
podium after last night's semifinal, I was not that happy with the time. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
I lost a bit of confidence because I was not quite on the same form as I | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
was at the Commonwealth Games but I have managed to come back tonight | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
and drop my time quite a lot. To be on the podium again is just a bonus. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
That could not have been any closer. Really exciting, the main | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
bit funny about watching Georgia DAvies, she was coming back over the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
last 25 metres. She is normally a 50 metres swimmer. She was fighting. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
More work on that back end and she could be a real contender, she could | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
have potentially won that race. It is good experience, isn't it? | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Absolutely. She made her senior debut four years ago, all of this is | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
about experience, getting to the point where you stand on the block | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
and are confident in your own ability, you have been in the | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
situation many times before and you relax. Standing on the podium is not | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
a bad experience. Gold in Glasgow, bronze tonight. One man who got | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
plenty of medals in Glasgow is in action might now the 50 meter | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
backstroke. Let's turn our attention to Chris Walker-Hebborn. | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
COMMENTATOR: Chris Walker-Hebborn, winner of the 100 meter backstroke. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
He is the one in lane three. You need a good start. It is a good | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
start. A great start coming from Chris Walker-Hebborn. He really made | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
the most of that underwater work. Has he got the power and speed to | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
turn over? Nothing between the swimmers as they power down the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
pool. It will come down to who can nail the finish, who will get the | :11:41. | :11:55. | |
touch. Morozov takes the gold. Bronze for Chris Walker-Hebborn. It | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
is all about his finish. He absolutely nailed it. You can see | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
the power of Morozov, freestyler turned backstroke. How close is | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
that? Chris Walker-Hebborn had no right to get a medal, but he's not | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
one. -- he snuck one. Chris Walker-Hebborn taking that medal two | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
hundredths of a second ahead of fourth place. Chris Walker-Hebborn | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
feels like another exciting prospect in Team GB, is this evidence to | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
support he can be want to go for gold? Very much, we have seen in | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Commonwealth Games how well we did, the strength and depth we have. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Coming into the championships with certain names missing, we have been | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
on the podium a lot of time, on top of the podium winning gold and | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
bronze. He has had a fantastic year. Consistently. I am pleased he has | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
come here and raised his game. The more you stand up there, compete and | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
win medals, the more confidence you get. He has swagger and is | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
confident, but lovely to see him do it. | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
On day five Britain still topped the medal table, and Steven Milne adds | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
to the hall? He goes in the 800 meter freestyle. -- adds to the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
hall. Look out for the Italians in lanes two and three. The men's 800 | :13:28. | :13:46. | |
metres freestyle underway. Not the greatest dive from Paltrinieri in | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
lane two. They do not need the quickest start in this race. The two | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Italians in the black swimming hat in lanes two and three. Towards the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
bottom of the screen. They already look like they will have a national | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
championship battle. The turnover from Paltrinieri on the first 50 is | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
an incredibly high tempo for an 800 meter freestyle. He is certainly not | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
afraid. He has to have a lot of confidence in his fitness. Detti | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
next to him, as Karen said, European record-holder, as the form. 742 he | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
has been. The Italians and formidable form, taking it to | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
everybody else on the first hundred. It is going to be behind Jonson and | :14:36. | :14:49. | |
Detti. Paltrinieri raise 100 of a second inside that European record. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
He has dropped off the pace a little bit. That blistering early pace he | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
set. Jonson fighting back into silver medal position and Gabriel | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Detti currently in third. You can see a strong finish coming from | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Stephen Milne. Great performance from Stephen Milne. It is all about | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the head of the race. Paltrinieri looks fantastic, he is starting to | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
hurt a little bit. You can tell, but the European record is still within | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
his lights. Paltrinieri fancies another similar to the macro | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
silver. It is all about the Italian. It is Paltrinieri finishing off this | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
silver. It is all about the Italian. great 800 metres swim, just five | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
metres left for him as he heads into the wall. On that finish. It is a | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
championship record, not a European record. A great swim from | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
Paltrinieri to finish ahead of Joenson and Detti. A really strong | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
finish from Stephen Milne and inside the Scottish record. Confirmation of | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
the championship record for Gregorio Paltrinieri. The same top three as | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
the 1500. It must be so frustrating, the | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
second time for him this week. He finished so strong but did he get | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
his tactics wrong? He was on the wrong side of the pool, to start | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
with. He was in Lane 7 and the action was on the other side. When I | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
said race the other people, he can see across and he should have gone | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
with the others. You say tactically he got it wrong. It was a good time | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
but next time, he should not save so much until the end. If we had gone | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
earlier, he could have potentially have stolen a medal. He will be | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
disappointed. In terms of times, he had a brilliant time tonight and | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
earlier in the week, so plenty to take away from this one. Now it is | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
the turn of Renshaw, she got a bronze in this in the Commonwealth | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
Games but can she do it or even go better at the Europeans? | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
COMMENTATOR: The 200 metres breast road final four women. | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
The women's 200 breaststroke final, in Lane 4, the whites in Hat of | :17:15. | :17:24. | |
Pedersen, the clear favourite. -- white swimming hat. She must be | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
eyeing up the record. She has had a great season and has been posting | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
some superb times this year already. She has been under 2:20, this year. | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
Leading the world. Well, Pedersen looks fantastic on the first 50. | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
Very good will work and a strong butterfly kick. She is not having it | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
all her own way, though, Vitalina Simonova, trying to stay on her hip. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Molly Renshaw, there, in Lane 2, still in the mix. Great start from | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
Rikke Moller Pedersen. You can see the glide she has, the powerful | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
kick, making the most of it in the streamlined position. Looking very | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
comfortable. At the halfway mark, just 0.3 seconds outside the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
European record, which is the world record as well. She is right on the | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
world record time. Being chased by Vitalina Simonova of Russia. She | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
finished sixth in the 100 breast stroke earlier this week. Also | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
coming through, Marina Khan -- Marina Garcia Urzainqui. It is a | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
thing of beauty, Pedersen's 200 Breast Rd. It looks pretty good. She | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
is under the European record split, her world record split but Molly | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
Renshaw is in fifth position and she still has a chance. This is where | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
she has two Bridge, got to work like she did at the Commonwealth Games. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
-- has to push. Let's see her get into the mix. Pedersen is ahead of | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
world record pace. Right on the Red Line, the European record, the world | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
record. It is going to come down to the touch. Can Rikke Moller Pedersen | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
get the touch? It is starting to drift away in the closing stages as | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
she ties up on the breast road, coming towards the end. It is | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
Pedersen, taking the gold medal. -- rest stroke. Molly Renshaw comes | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
through to take silver and Jessica Vall, third. What a swim from the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
18-year-old Molly Renshaw, just like at the Commonwealth Games, storming | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
through in the closing stages, a superb silver medal but there is | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
your winner. Wow explanation mark that is all we can say about a swim | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
like that. -- wow! You can see the power they generate, coming out of | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
the top of the water and diving into each stroke. Look at the distance | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
that Rikke Moller Pedersen had a head. And look at the distance from | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Molly Renshaw, to take silver. What a swim from her. And various | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
confirmation of the result. -- there is confirmation. I never | :20:20. | :20:32. | |
inspected to go that fast at the end of the long season so to get more | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
than half a second personal best is more than I can ask for. And a new | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
British record. Yes, I did not think of that but I can't complain. We | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
thought Molly Renshaw was out of it and then she might win it. Where did | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
that come from? Down the last length, she kept calling them back. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Pedersen is the world record holder but down the last length, her stroke | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
flowed, she did not panic, the timing was there. It was a really | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
mature swim, two seconds than she has been before. Out of the pool, | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
she showed great mental strength as well, having missed the Olympics. It | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
is one of those, turning a negative into a positive. In London, she did | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
not go, lost on a technicality, did not make the qualifier, appealed and | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
it did not happen and she was only 16. It can make or break you and it | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
has made her. Now she's winning medals at major championships and it | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
can only better from here. It feels like a great time for British | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
swimming but going forward, the future looks bright. You have a list | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
of young, potential good summers like Ben Proud and Adam Peaty and | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
she is part of that. Did I tell you are used to swim? I was 38 but now | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
it is a lot younger. Chris Walker-Hebborn and Hannah Miley, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Fran Halsall the oldest and they are 24. When I was on the team, they | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
were the young ones. 18-24, now, two years before the Olympics in Rio, | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
which we are already focusing on, they will be in prime. Let's move on | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
to the men's 100 metres freestyle. It was a one-two for France, Florent | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Manaudou taking his third gold of the championship so far and he has | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
got even more chances in the pool, so look out for him. Fabien Gilot | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
took silver and the bronze went to Italy. Next up, the women's 100 | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
meter butterfly final. Jemma Lowe is going for Team GB. If she wants to | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
take gold, she will have to get by one of these rumours of the | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
tournament, Sarah Sjostrom Sweden but other British swimmers have done | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
well against a world-class field tonight, so hopefully that will set | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
up Jemma Lowe nicely. Let's see what happens. | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
COMMENTATOR: The star to watching this one, Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden. | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
-- in this one. The 100 metres butterfly final, featuring the 50 | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
metres world record-holder, Sarah Sjostrom in Lane 4. At a very fast | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
start coming from Jeanette Ottesen in the white swimming hat in Lane 5. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
She is the danger that Sarah Sjostrom has do watch out for. Inept | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
artisan, great 50 metres speed on freestyle and butterfly, taking this | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
on. Sarah Sjostrom is the master of keeping the pace going over 100 | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
metres. Fantastic from Sarah Sjostrom. She knows what she's | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
doing, hanging on the shoulder but I like the look of Jemma Lowe in Lane | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
7. She has put herself in the mix for a medal but she has to bring the | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
second 50 home. It is all about the head of the race between Sarah | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
Sjostrom and Jeanette Ottesen. Jeanette Ottesen hanging onto the | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
lead and Sarah Sjostrom trying to make a move. It's a great battle | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
between Denmark and Sweden. And Jeanette Ottesen hang on? It will | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
come down to the touch. And the windows to Jeanette Ottesen! 0.01 | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
seconds ahead. What a surprise that she took the championship record, | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
that has stood for so long, since 2002, and Sarah Sjostrom take the | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
silver. Ilaria Bianchi of Italy taking the bronze. Jemma Lowe | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
finishing sixth. You can't breathe, the last two strokes will lose you | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
race is only 100 flight and Sarah Sjostrom as proof that. Don't | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
breathe in the red zone. She was ahead with five metres to go. She | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
has got to get her head down. That is what Jeanette Ottesen does, gets | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
her head down on the last two strokes, and steals the victory. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Jeanette Ottesen, European champion and a championship record time. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Sarah Sjostrom has do settle for silver. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
In the end, Jeanette Ottesen winning by the tiniest of margins but given | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
she beat Sarah Sjostrom, is it a bigger victory? Genk everyone was | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
shot because Sarah Sjostrom had not been on form leading into this but | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Jeanette Ottesen is the second fastest in the world in that | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
distance. It showed you about getting the detail right, the | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
reactions to the start, turn and finish, if you get something wrong, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
that is the difference between winning and losing races. What about | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Jemma Lowe? She got the gold from earlier in the week but this is the | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
individual. Slightly disappointed. She has been faster. It was not bad | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
but when you look at the other athletes, if I was her coach, I | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
would go back and look at Sarah Sjostrom and Jeanette Ottesen, they | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
are bigger and stronger. She needs a bit more speed so I would work hard | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
on getting more strength in the gym and hopefully that will translate | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
into the water and she can get on the podium. Other female members of | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
the team have done that and it has worked. Absolutely. Now the men's 50 | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
metre breast row, Adam Peaty goes in this one, the semifinals but he has | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
been in brilliant form this season so let's | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
COMMENTATOR: Adam Peaty going in the second semifinal of the men's 50 | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
metre backstroke. What can he do in this? The reigning European champion | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
in this one but Adam Peaty in the centre of the pool, looking high, | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
strong and smooth and he is edging further and further ahead with every | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
single stroke. Adam Peaty in a class of his own, a big glide into the | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
wall. It is a world record! 26.62, the world record for Adam Peaty, | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
with a glide into the finish! He cannot believe it, Adam Peaty, it | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
has just dawned on him, he is the fastest 15 East -- fastest 50 metre | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
restricts women in history. He has come out of the lane, cannot believe | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
it, the dons are on show, get in there. A real power. Although it was | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
not the best. He did not come up the fastest, getting into great | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
streamlining, whole-body going through, the one hole in the water. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
A big, powerful break-out as well. As he is going down, here, so much | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
power but look at the finish, a world-record swim. Oh, my gosh! He | :27:17. | :27:28. | |
can go 0.3 quicker. Confirmation of the new world record for Great | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Britain's Adam Peaty, to take semifinal number two, looking good | :27:33. | :27:33. | |
for the final tomorrow night. Feeling like I never have before, I | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
don't think it will sink in for a few weeks. Tomorrow is a new day. | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
Who knows what it brings? Where did the speed come from? I don't know, | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
probably my winter training and a really good season. I have been | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
getting faster every year. It is great to come out here and break a | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
record. Adam Peaty with the world record. He is in phenomenal form | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
coming off the back of the Commonwealth Games but that is | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
incredible. It is huge, it was by 0.4 seconds as well. He pushed Van | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
den Berg close in the race, the world record-holder, it is one of | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
those times, the semifinals when you can let loose. The final is a bit | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
more tense but he knew he had made the final Sony cut loose and had a | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
go. He was surprised. A good time to get on the block and show off the | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
dons but phenomenal for him. What does this mean for the final? Can he | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
go quicker? He should win the race and on that time, he will win it a | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
bit ahead of the rest of the field. It should not be tight but when it | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
comes to finals and it is about the medals, you tend to try to go a bit | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
quicker. He may try to break the record again but I don't know. He | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
has to do it tomorrow. He has a bright future. Not a bad way to end | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
day five, a world record and a silver medals at Team GB. -- and a | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
silver medal for Team GB. No medals yet for Team GB on basics | :29:08. | :29:16. | |
but this is a real chance, Fran Halsall and Georgia Davies in the 50 | :29:17. | :29:17. | |
metre backstroke. COMMENTATOR: And they are separated | :29:18. | :29:33. | |
by two lanes. The women's 50 metre backstroke final, a big chance for | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
the Britain, and away they go, Fran Halsall prides herself on good | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
starting budgie is better known as a freestyler. What can she deliver? | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
Georgia Davies, one of the great British champions. Not much between | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
them as they cover the first of the race. Mercedes Peris Minguet and Mie | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
Nielsen between the girls but it is a British one-two at the moment. The | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
two of them come close together, and Mie Nielsen and Mercedes Peris | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
Minguet, they touch, and it is a golden one-two for Britain with Fran | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
Halsall just in front of Georgia Davies. And the smile on her face, | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
enjoying the victory. She has got home by just 0.01 seconds. Fantastic | :30:14. | :30:21. | |
performance from Fran Halsall, winning it by throwing herself at | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
the wall but her start was fantastic. Just do the left of your | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
screen, she has really worked the underwater butterfly leg kick. And | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
then straight up into her stroke. Not known for her backstroke but | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
look at the finish. It looked like Georgia Davies would take it but | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
Fran Halsall by 0.01 seconds. was like a fun event coming in. I | :30:40. | :30:55. | |
hoped to dip under 28 seconds. I did that and managed to get more medals | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
so I cannot complain. You are not done yet, are you? I hope not. My | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
main event is tomorrow. Arguably the race we have been waiting for | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
all-day, 50 meter breaststroke final. Adam Peaty set a world record | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
coming into this, what effect will it have on tonight? | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
The rest of the field will say it is about us trying to win silver | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
because Adam Peaty is in a league of his own, .7 of a second faster than | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
the rest of the field when he broke the world record yesterday. This | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
event is nailed on for him, it is just how fast it is going to go. Can | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
he go quicker? Absolutely, he made a couple of mistakes yesterday. You | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
look at the little things you could have done differently when you break | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
a world record. He glided into the wall a little bit, there is more he | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
could have done there. Let's watch as Adam Peaty takes to the stage. | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
COMMENTATOR: So much expectation, in lane number four, what a golden year | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
he has had. That world record, 26.62. Peaty, mergers quite late out | :32:00. | :32:13. | |
of the water. Just behind the likes of Titenis from Lithuania. Peaty, | :32:14. | :32:21. | |
now famed for the second half of his races, alongside these leaders, now | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
digging in. Peaty going strongly. On the far side... Peaty is too strong | :32:28. | :32:42. | |
for them. Titenis finishes second. A really good swim from this bristling | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
young talent. He will be happy with another gold medal around his neck | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
but I don't think, looking back, his coach will be too happy with this | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
start. He was half a metre down on the Little Wayne Jan. You can't | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
really do that on a 50. He is so strong and powerful he did get back | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
into it. He missed the war when he broke the world record. A better | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
finish there. A marvellous meeting continues for Adam Peaty, gold medal | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
again. Titenis and Dugonjic second and third. I am really happy with | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
that one, slower than the heats and the semis, coming off a massive high | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
last night. I hope that by the Olympics I can find you in that and | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
get stronger through the rounds. Welcome to the final day of | :33:28. | :33:37. | |
competition here in Berlin. Fran Halsall already has two gold medals, | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
last night's was a surprise. Let's see what she can do in the 1500 | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
meter freestyle we are about to find out who the fastest woman in Europe | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
is. The 50 meter freestyle is the first | :33:49. | :34:06. | |
up for the women tonight. Two girls have enjoyed a fantastic year of | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
swimming, Fran Halsall and Sarah Sjostrom. And away they go. Fran | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
Halsall seemed to get a very good start ahead of Sjoestroem. Ottesen | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
for Denmark swimming very fast in the early stages. Al Gore has a | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
distinct the early stages. Al Gore has a | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
as they enter the closing stages. The blue cap of Fran Halsall. Can | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
Sjoestroem get her back? Ottesen behind. Fran Halsall is European | :34:36. | :34:43. | |
champion and she has beaten seals strum and Ottesen. What a tremendous | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
week will stop Francesca Halsall, another big winner in the pool. What | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
a stellar start Fran had, it was that start that made all the | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
difference. The third medal of the week. Fran Halsall, URS die. -- you | :34:59. | :35:10. | |
are a star. To get inmates is where it is close, get your hand on the | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
wall first, dumping you have to make a habit of, you have got to want to | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
do it. Especially in the 50. To win by such close margins and freestyle | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
being so close. My race practice is going really well and I am looking | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
forward to moving on in the future. This girl this week has been | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
unbelievable, gold in the 50 backstroke, gold in the medley | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
relay, another gold here on the 50 freestyle. Last night was not Fran | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
Halsall's event so she went into it relaxed, tonight more pressure, but | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
it did not seem to show. She was very relaxed going in. Surprise to | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
have come out on top. It is her revenge, she is the fastest swimmer | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
in the world this year, she won the Commonwealth Games then had to, to | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
do job again. She looked like a pond skater in the pool. What do you mean | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
she is like a pond skater? What you try to do when you swim along its | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
pull yourself out of the water, as much of your body outside the water. | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
The faster a speedboat goes the more of the body is outside the water. | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
What you are trying to do is gate across the water. It worked, it | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
worked forward to diet. -- it worked for her tonight. She's only 24 years | :36:28. | :36:35. | |
of age, phenomenal. Well done, Fran Halsall, let's what Ben Proud can | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
do. COMMENTATOR: Ben Proud will go for Great Britain, the 19-year-old | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
in lane number five. What a task ahead of him, Florent Manaudou for | :36:45. | :36:52. | |
France looks red hot at the moment. Proud was the last man to strip down | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
on his blocks, Manaudou seemed to get a tremendous start. He has arms | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
like trees as they powered through the water. Manaudou is relentless in | :37:01. | :37:07. | |
his power here, he has the advantage over Ben Proud. Hard to see Ben | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
Proud getting back. Manaudou looking class here as they come home. | :37:11. | :37:16. | |
Manaudou is going to win it for France. Journey out in second, he | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
has had a good week. And Finland in third place. A different class, | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
Manaudou. He was, there he is, four gold medals for him this week. He | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
has broken the competition record and is the fastest man in the world | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
this year. He may swim with those straight arms, slightly unorthodox, | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
but he gets the job done. Florent Manaudou is the winner from journey | :37:44. | :37:56. | |
out and Liukkonen in third place. It is up against the machine, Manaudou. | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
It looks like a beast, it is like a man against the boy in a sense. Ben | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
Proud has a lot of muscle mass and speed, but he is younger than | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
Manaudou. Ben Proud is new on the scene, Manaudou is the reigning | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
Olympic champion, I expected him to win. We will hear a lot more about | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
that boy, Ben Proud. Plenty more to come from Ben Proud. The next | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
athlete has come back from China especially to take part in this | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
event. The line-up dominated in the 50 metres breast wrote for women by | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
the Lithuanian, 17 years old. She has had quite a week. There she | :38:37. | :38:47. | |
goes. Of her body in the pool before the others leave the blocks, it | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
would seem. Meiluttye should kick in now. The | :38:50. | :39:07. | |
prize is definitely going to be hers. Brand cannot finish of | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
strongly. It is all about the clock. Meilutyte strikes gold. What a | :39:11. | :39:32. | |
future she has and what the presence she gives us. I am very pleased. | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
Maybe the time was not as good as I hoped but I am happy to finish my | :39:39. | :39:48. | |
season racing. A convincing victory by Meilutyte. Onto the women's 200 | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
meter butterfly final. A Spanish 1-2. As Belmonte Garcia set a new | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
championship record to claim her second gold of the meat. -- of the | :39:58. | :40:09. | |
meeting. With one gold in the bag already for Team GB, let's see what | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
Roberto Pavoni can do in the men's hundred metre final. Max Litchfield | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
has done very good to get here after a disappointing Commonwealth Games. | :40:23. | :40:33. | |
Pavoni is in five. Next to him is Verraszto. The Germans in six and | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
two. Max Litchfield is nearest to us, trying to get a good start, but | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
you can see he is already a little bit behind as Pavoni goes off like a | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
steam train. It is great to see this, early commitment on the 400 | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
metres individual medley. Such fine margins, you do not want to go off | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
too fast, you want to be about 90-95%. It is good swimming. I am | :40:57. | :41:04. | |
liking the look of Pavoni on this hundred metres butterfly at the | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
start of this 100 IM. You have to play to your strengths. He is a | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
quality swimmer. A nice low head position, making sure he is really | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
efficient. Look at the rat so. He is saying no, I fancy this myself. | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
Verraszto is drawing alongside him, perhaps knows he is ahead towards | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
the halfway stage. It will be Verraszto for Hungary turning in | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
front of Pavoni. Litchfield is still in the mix in third. He is swimming | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
well, renewed confidence perhaps for him after that terrible experience | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
he had in the Commonwealth Games. Onto the breaststroke and it is | :41:45. | :41:47. | |
important that Pavoni can at least stay with, or hopefully get in front | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
of, Verraszto. He has done himself a massive favour on the wall. Because | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
he was behind but just on that wall work he got straight back into the | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
race on level terms. Verraszto swimming quicker, Roberto needs a | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
good turn. Looking great for a medal, the question is, can he win | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
gold? Max Litchfield is nearest to us in third place and a little way | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
in front of the fourth man. Verraszto sets the standard as they | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
come down the pool again. He has moved almost a body length clear of | :42:20. | :42:30. | |
Pavoni. Max Litchfield is in the mix for Great Britain in lane number | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
one. We head towards the culmination of this final. Verraszto is a good | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
freestyler, hard to see him not winning gold. It is, but I am | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
excited about Max Litchfield. The one, Roberto Pavoni, your final | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
hundred. Max Litchfield is having the swim of his life. He is a great | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
freestyle swimmer, he has really performed in the 1500 in his life. | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
It would be great if Great Britain can go to and three. Verraszto for | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
Hungary lead the way. A length and a half to go. Verraszto is to metre | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
clears up of only, looks as though Turrini is trying to come back. The | :43:10. | :43:18. | |
final turn, the rat so, Pavoni and Turrini is now ahead of Litchfield, | :43:19. | :43:20. | |
who really will have to dig Turrini is now ahead of Litchfield, | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
wants a medal. Turrini might take on Pavoni. Pavoni is here to be | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
committed early on in the race. Come on, Max Litchfield, the chance of a | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
light Sunni lifetime, commit over the 25. Verraszto is going to win | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
gold, not a shadow of a doubt. Looks like match Litchfield -- Max | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
Litchfield will only just missed out. Turrini was third and Max | :43:46. | :43:53. | |
Litchfield touches in fourth place. Well done, Roberto Pavoni, you said | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
right at the start he gave it everything from the world go. The | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
world go. Verraszto is just too strong. -- the word go. | :44:01. | :44:12. | |
I am very satisfied with the place, I was hoping to be in a closer fight | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
for the gold, but I did not have enough on the last 50 metres to | :44:20. | :44:25. | |
catch him. I am happy with silver but was hoping for a tiny bit more | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
at the time. Team GB almost had two medals, Litchfield missed out by | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
half a second. Another medal for Roberto Pavoni. This time silver to | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
add to his bronze. A fantastic swim, I am really pleased for him. It is a | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
gruelling event. Another time close to his best. He fought hard towards | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
the end. The more you race, the more experienced you will get. Now we | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
have got him, Max and Wallace. Three guys potentially in the top five | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
swimmers in the whole of Europe. We talk about success, they will be | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
tired. They have had a gruelling summer. From the Commonwealth Games, | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
leading into the European Championships, over four weeks, not | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
just mentally, but physically, these guys never raced two major | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
championships back-to-back. It is a learning experience. The more times | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
they stand on the block and go through this process are more | :45:22. | :45:24. | |
relaxed they become and the better they get at it. Hopefully the more | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
times they are on the block, the more times they will be on the | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
podium. Jazz Carlin goes in the 400 meter freestyle. | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
Commentator macro, Mireia Belmonte is back in the pool. And Jazz Carlin | :45:39. | :45:50. | |
is in Lane 6. Jazz Carlin is a way to the far side, just beyond the | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
last of the yellow lane ropes. She did not appear to get the best | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
start. Pellegrini starts well, definitely. Sharon Rouwendaal of the | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
Netherlands has begun strongly. Jazz Carlin moving into contention, | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
together with Melanie Costa Schmid, as they approach their first term, | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
Melanie Costa Schmid, on the far side, possibly one of the leaders. | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
The early stages of this intriguing 400 metres final. Melanie Costa | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
Schmid still leading at the halfway stage. Mireia Belmonte in third | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
place. Pellegrini a close fourth, and Sharon Rouwendaal in fifth | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
place. Not too far off them. Lotte Friis has got work to do, a great | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
distance swimmer but she has dropped right of them at the nearside in the | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
white cap, and looks completely off it. Jazz Carlin is in front at 250. | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
She has a narrow lead from Mireia Belmonte. Keep your fingers | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
crossed. She is doing everything right. She is apart from her turns, | :46:53. | :46:59. | |
freaking me out a bit. But Sharon Rouwendaal is the ten kilometre open | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
water champion. She does not want for Sam and. But Mireia Belmonte, | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
surely it is impossible she can do the 200 fly and 403 double in the | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
same session? Jazz Carlin, what an opportunity with 100 metres to go. | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
-- 403 double. Pellegrini has the speed by Jazz Carlin going into the | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
turn and what a fantastic turn from Maria Belmondo, how is this | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
possible? She is showing unbelievable technique and remained | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
as bravery, Mireia Belmonte, and is a head in front of Jazz Carlin. | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
Pellegrini, Sharon Rouwendaal and Melanie Costa Schmid there as well. | :47:41. | :47:43. | |
Jazz Carlin tries to get back in front before the final turn. Jazz | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
Carlin on the far side in the dark blue cap, and Mireia Belmonte turns | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
almost alongside her. Sharon Rouwendaal is in contention as well. | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
0.3 seconds and Pellegrini has a big finish. This is an epic. It is an | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
Pellegrini has the speed. Mireia Belmonte is going to be tight but | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Jazz Carlin has gone to the head of the race and she has the legs and | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
has the chance of doing the double. 2013 was a disaster for Jazz Carlin | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
but 2014 is looking rosy. Sharon Rouwendaal coming back, a great | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
finish, can Jazz Carlin hold on? She touches to take the European title. | :48:23. | :48:30. | |
Sharon Rouwendaal second and Mireia Belmonte with an heroic swim into | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
third place. Pellegrini out of the medals and Jazz Carlin's disbelief | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
replaced by a beautiful smile and a tremendous swim. Jazz Carlin has one | :48:40. | :48:47. | |
age Mendis, unforgettable, tremendous 400 metres freestyle. -- | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
she has won a tremendous. Unbelievable performance. She has | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
broken the Welsh record on the way to winning the European | :48:56. | :48:57. | |
Championship. I don't think she can quite believe it. | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
I have moved it on from the Commonwealth Games and my times have | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
been quicker. To come away with two gold medals is an incredible feeling | :49:08. | :49:14. | |
to end the season. A new record for Jazz Carlin. The gold medallist, | :49:15. | :49:24. | |
once again this week, and after the games in Glasgow, a summer that she | :49:25. | :49:31. | |
will remember. STUDIO: Another gold for Jazz Carlin and another personal | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
best by due thing she has even more? A lot more. One of the things I've | :49:37. | :49:39. | |
noticed from the Commonwealth Games and here is the turn of speed at the | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
end, she is so quicker which -- so much quicker, which is awesome but | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
she cannot turn and how much does that lose on the opponents? It is | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
kind of exciting, because you have 16 turns in 800 metres and it can | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
make a lot of difference. It is exciting she has that much left to | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
come. I am only slightly laughing because of what you has achieved a | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
ready. Looking at the bigger picture, she can go up against | :50:06. | :50:07. | |
Caitlin Hideki and she needs everything she can get. Doing the | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
double here and winning the Commonwealth Games in world-class | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
times is phenomenal. This is why I say you should coach but it is not | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
my place to say. Let's move on to the women's four X 100 relay. | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
COMMENTATOR: Denmark looked very strong. It is going to be Denmark at | :50:28. | :50:37. | |
halfway with the lead. They are in front by half a second, Great | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
Britain in third place, and going now is Jemma Lowe. She needs to hang | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
in there. She does and Sweden and Italy are going to be strong | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
finishers. Sweden has Sarah Sjostrom on the 100 fly and she is in the | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
water right now. Ilaria Bianchi got a bronze medal in the 100 fly so | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
Jemma Lowe needs a big leg to give Fran Halsall every chance. Jeanette | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
Ottesen turns and Denmark's lead has grown and Italy have nudged past | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
Great Britain into third place. Britain need to hang on and they | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
have Fran Halsall to come on the final leg. Vanilla bloom will go | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
over Denmark. Sweden will rely Michelle Coleman. They had for the | :51:21. | :51:28. | |
closing stages. Erica Ferri only will go for Italy and it looks as | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
though Britain will turn in third place but the gold medal has gone. | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
Definitely but we will have a great race at the head because Michelle | :51:40. | :51:41. | |
Coleman for Sweden, the bronze medallist, and then the Italian got | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
fourth place. Heading down with 75 metres left ago to us, us, Sweden, | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
then Denmark's white cap and Britain in third place on the far side. Fran | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
Halsall doing her level best. She turns in third place, trying to hang | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
on to hang onto the bronze medal ahead of the Netherlands, who are | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
coming home strongly. A great scrap in third place, trying to hang onto | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
the bronze medal ahead of the likes of the Netherlands, who are coming | :52:11. | :52:12. | |
home strongly. A great scrap insulin Sweden's yellow cap and Denmark in | :52:13. | :52:13. | |
the white. -- a great third place on the far side? Coming | :52:14. | :52:23. | |
hard at her, but the battle for gold is between Denmark and Sweden and | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
Denmark when, capping a great week, and Great Britain and Fran Halsall | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
bringing home a bronze medal in third place. Denmark beat Sweden, | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
not for the first time, Steve. You were right, they were the ones to | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
beat. They will be waiting with bated breath because they got | :52:44. | :52:45. | |
disqualified earlier in the week after winning the freestyle relay. | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
It was close. Sweden ran them close the whole way. But Denmark, real | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
qualities will mean this week. But Fran Halsall, bringing it home for | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
Great Britain, and other medal. They can't stop winning medals. Denmark | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
are the champions and Sweden with silver and Great Britain with | :53:06. | :53:07. | |
bronze. A new European record for Denmark, | :53:08. | :53:17. | |
who won the women's 100 metres relay medley. Bronze for the British | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
girls. How useful is the relay for swimmers who are not in the best | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
form, not winning medals? Is it a good chance to get confidence? | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
Looking at Sophie earlier the week, she was injured a few days ago and | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
she swam six seconds off her best time and she was close to her best | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
again. For her, it is a great step forward. Jemma Lowe has not had the | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
best meeting and walks away with a medal. Fran Halsall has got three | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
medals already and gets another. And Georgia has got a couple as well. It | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
is good for everyone. For Britain as a whole, it shows the strength in | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
depth. Let's see what the men can do. In the Commonwealth Games, they | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
blew the field away so let's see what they can do in the European | :53:59. | :54:00. | |
competition. COMMENTATOR: France, with Adam Peaty | :54:01. | :54:14. | |
trying to kick in, in second place as they head towards the halfway | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
stage. France held the advantage over Adam Peaty who is swimming | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
well. Adam Peaty has the lead. The French backpedalling slightly. | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
Hungary and Germany behind them. This has been a tremendous second | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
50, from Adam Peaty. And now, Britain is in front. They lead by | :54:32. | :54:34. | |
over one second from France and Germany. Adam Barrett, a | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
Commonwealth swim which he will never forget, helping to give | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
England the Commonwealth gold. Now he needs to maintain form. Britain | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
have a really good lead, now. That's right but don't count out France and | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
Germany. Steffen Deibler was in the 100 fly final. Look at Adam Barrett | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
go. He doing it again. He did it at the Commonwealth Games. He stepped | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
up and delivered, there. If he can give Ben Proud a body length lead, | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
they have every chance of winning the gold medal. Adam Barrett is | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
doing it for Great Britain, 15 metres to go, he has to get his head | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
down and get to the wall. Ben Proud will be nervous but he has do have a | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
good takeover. Adam Barrett has given Great Britain a fantastic | :55:23. | :55:24. | |
chance of ending the meeting in Berlin with a gold medal again. | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
France in pursuit. 1.7 seconds behind. Now the battle is on. Can | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
Ben Proud bring it home for Great Britain? Looking very good, 1.5 | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
metres clear from France and Hungary, who give chase. Look out | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
because Fabien Gilot is the world champion in the freestyle relay. He | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
knows how to bring it home. But surely Ben Proud has got too much? | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
He has got the speed but does he have the stamina? 25 metres to go, | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
hold on! France coming hard but Britain a metre in France still from | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
France and Hungary. Great Britain and Ben Proud, maintaining form, | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
France trying their best with Fabien Gilot in second place. But more | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
successful Great Britain, who win European gold in the relay. Britain | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
are too strong for France and Hungary. A brilliant way for the | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
British team to enter the European Championships. Well done to them | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
all. Ben Proud, Adam Peaty, Chris Walker-Hebborn but for me, | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
particularly, Adam Barrett, who was relentless, remorseless, with his | :56:32. | :56:32. | |
fly leg. Last night, we set a new record for | :56:33. | :56:48. | |
the best European Championships ever. To come here and go on top of | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
that was even better. Not a lot I can say. I am absolutely over the | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
moon with the performance of the team. I am ready to go home now! | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
Incredible reaction and an incredible performance which means | :57:04. | :57:05. | |
that Ben Proud at Adam Barrett go home with gold medals as well. | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
Fantastic way to finish the competition, and Team GB enter the | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
European Championships at the top of the medal table, with 25 medals in | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
total, ten of them gold. A brilliant performance, just a couple of years | :57:20. | :57:20. | |
out from the Olympics. Joining us now is Bill Furness, the | :57:21. | :57:29. | |
Team GB head coach. People have made a lot of the fact that Team GB was | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
falling short of its targets a couple of years ago but now you are | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
far exceeding them. You have been at the helm for 18 months. What has | :57:37. | :57:43. | |
changed? Behaviours, Chris Spice and I, the performance directors, Aaron | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
initial thought was to do it a British way. We are looking at | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
world-class behaviours, whatever they are. We are getting everyone to | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
do the best they can, all the time, in training and competition. I | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
suppose the biggest change is that we are making them race more | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
internationally. In the Commonwealth Games and this week, you can see we | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
are tougher, difficult to beat. From my perspective, I have to make that | :58:10. | :58:12. | |
a normal behaviour. For Great Britain, this is what we expect, | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
swimming against the best nations in the world and expecting to win | :58:17. | :58:19. | |
medals, it's pectin to win gold medals and breaking records. -- | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
expecting to win gold medals. We can then take that forward to the World | :58:27. | :58:29. | |
Championships and Olympic Games. If it is important to raise, is it | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
important to bring the whole team? Not everyone is here. Is it a shame? | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
Not really because our top priority busy was the Commonwealth Games. We | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
only brought 21 swimmers here on purpose. About a dozen of them are | :58:44. | :58:50. | |
senior swimmers and we have brought some good juniors who have got a | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
feeling for it and got medals. It has worked for us. The people who | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
came here, they were very focused on doing well in both competitions. It | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
is difficult to do. The people who were absolutely focused on the | :59:05. | :59:07. | |
Commonwealth Games finished their season there, and start preparing | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
for next season. It is easy to try to do too much. The athletes who did | :59:13. | :59:17. | |
it here, a very small team but the biggest medal total, have done a | :59:18. | :59:18. | |
great job. Thank you for joining us. And it was not just in swimming that | :59:19. | :59:29. | |
Team GB did well. In diving, we got our first individual European diving | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
gold since 1927. Victory in the ten metres platform on Friday. The | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
Devonshire diversity of the title with five well executed routines, | :59:40. | :59:46. | |
giving her a personal best of 363.7. I came here for a European medal. I | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
wanted a gold medal but I did not expect it. This year has been pretty | :59:51. | :59:55. | |
tough. I have had a lot of competitions. But it ended pretty | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
well. Tom Daley secured silver in the ten metres platform final but | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
was unable to defend his title at the European aquatic Championships | :00:06. | :00:07. | |
in Berlin. The 20-year-old Commonwealth jump in finished with | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
535.45. But the Russian managed 586.1, to take gold. I would | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
535.45. But the Russian managed loved to have retained my title as | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
European champion. But I am actually really pleased with the way I dived. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Lots of positives in there. really pleased with the way I dived. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
them were around a ten and two of them were around seven. I could not | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
afford to miss two dives with the standard of competition. Victor | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
dived amazingly well. It was a nice contest and a good fight to the end. | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Congratulations to the diving team. Lots more sport to come on the BBC. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
The brothers showing the way once again. It is simply stunning. A | :00:57. | :01:15. | |
wonderful performance. Geraint Thomas, what a superb victory. What | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
a star. It is a golden floor routine. Plenty of great sport to | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
come on the BBC. First is the youth Olympic aims in China. The highlight | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
are on Saturday the 30th of August. Daily highlights on the red button | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
from 9am. The world rowing Championships in the Netherlands are | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
live with John in the Dale and Katherine Grainger. -- John | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
Inverdale. If the swimming is anything to go by I recommend you to | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
and into those sporting events. We have had a world record, personal | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
bests, multiple European titles. This is a team that has had a torrid | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
time, how will the mood be in the camp? The boys summed it up at the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
end, how excited and pumped they were. The whole team will be pumped. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
They all defended their titles from the Commonwealth Games. These are | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
world-class wins. Are they world-class? Casual swimming fans | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
will say there is no Australia, America, China, where does this put | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Team GB on the world stage? We were level with Australia on the medal | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
table in the Commonwealth Games. We topped the medal table here. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Watching Australia, America, Japan, of the bigger nations, looking at | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
the rankings, our teams could conflict with those swings. Let's | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
not get carried away, but let's get excited. It has been our catchphrase | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
of the week, plenty more to come. It is fair to say in conclusion there | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
is plenty more to come from Team GB, thanks for watching the European | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Championships with us. For now, goodbye. | :03:04. | :03:07. |