Swimming: Jamieson goes to great lengths in 200m win

MICHAEL JAMIESON, the former City of Edinburgh swimmer, made a huge breakthrough by winning the 200m breaststroke on the final day of the British Gas British Swimming Championships in Sheffield.

The 21-year-old had already clinched a first GB cap when he finished second to Edinburgh's Kris Gilchrist in the 100m breaststroke earlier in the week and he will now have the chance to swim in two events at the European Championships in Budapest in August. But while the Glasgow-born youngster took the title in 2:11.14, Paris-based Gilchrist had to settle for third in his specialist event. He clocked 2:11.60 and just missed out in a blanket finish to Bath's Richard Webb.

Jamieson and 26-year-old Gilchrist spent most of the last four years training together, initially at the Royal Commonwealth Pool with the now extinct City of Edinburgh Club, before they followed head coach, Fred Vergnoux, to Paris. But Jamieson moved to the British Intensive Training Centre at Bath last September.

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"It has worked out really well," he said. "I was delighted that Kris and I got the gold and silver in the 100m last Wednesday and claimed the two European places, but the 200m is my main event and so to win the title is special."

Jamieson and Gilchrist are among the eight Scots who should be named in the GB team for the European Championships.

Hannah Miley, Robbie Renwick, who won the 400m freestyle and took silver in the 200m, David Carry, Caitlin McClatchey, Andy Hunter and Lucy Ellis complete the list. Ellis finished third in the 100m freestyle in Sheffield to clinch her selection as a member of the 4 x 100m freestyle relay squad.

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