Swimming: Robbie Renwick aims to get it right first time as Scots battle for London place

COMMONWEALTH Games champion Robbie Renwick learned an important lesson when he slipped up at the first round of trials for last year’s world championships. The Scot is determined not to make the same mistake when the British Olympic trials start today at the new Aquatics Centre in London.

The City of Glasgow 23-year-old lines up in the opening 400m freestyle, while his main event, the 200m freestyle, gets under way with heats and semi-finals tomorrow followed by the final on Monday evening.

“This time I want to make sure I get through first time,” admitted Renwick, who has recently spent time training in Florida.

“I’m looking forward to the trials and trying out the new pool for a first time. This is where it all starts for London 2012.” Renwick, who reached the final of the 200m freestyle as a teenager at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, is joined by the two 400m individual medley hopes, Hannah Miley and Warrender’s Lewis Smith, as the Scots aiming to earn qualification on the opening day of the week-long trials.

Miley, the world championship silver medallist, is firm favourite to win a seventh straight British 400m medley title, but Smith, who competed in the 2009 world championships, faces a tough task to clinch one of the two places in the men’s event.

David Carry and Caitlin McClatchey – both former Commonwealth Games gold medallists – are Scots aiming to make it to a third Olympics in a row.

Both have their sights set on the 4x200m freestyle squads, as well as the individual events.

Jak Scott (Stirling), the 20-year-old who made his big breakthrough into the British team at last year’s world championships in Shanghai, is another of the Scots chasing a place in the 200m freestyle, relay and individual.

Rebecca Adlington, the double gold medallist from Beijing, gets her programme under way tomorrow with the 400m freestyle. The Nottingham 23-year-old is also in the 200m and 800m freestyle.