Keri-anne Payne gains in Edinburgh
Despite having trained “not a huge amount” since moving to Edinburgh following her September marriage to Scotland’s former Commonwealth Games champion, David Carry, the new Warrender star claimed the 400m freestyle in 4:10.89. “It’s good to be back in the water and competing again,” said Payne, who won the 800m on Friday and could make it a hat-trick in the 200m freestyle tonight. Charlotte McKenzie completed an impressive backstroke double with victory in the 200m.
Lewis Smith was gutted to miss out on the London Olympics, but a winning 1:59.21 in the 200m butterfly confirmed the Warrender 24-year-old remains on course for a second Commonwealth Games in 2014. Emily Jones (Aberdeen) claimed her first senior Scottish title in the 100m butterfly, while Aberdeen 15-year-old Suleman Butt continued his great run with a third British junior record of the Championships. The 15-year-old clocked 50.45 in the heats of the 100m freestyle, breaking the mark set by Mark Foster in 1986.