Swimming: Smith a happy Warrender as he grabs gold hat-trick

The 21-year-old completed the gold medal sweep with a time of 4:18.02 in his favourite 400 metre individual medley. He finished ahead of Ross Muir, with his Warrender clubmate, Dan Wallace, taking the bronze in 4:22.20.

Smith also won medals in backstroke, freestyle and butterfly events as he bids to get his body accustomed to the new swimwear regulations. Since the turn of the year, men are no longer allowed to wear full body suits.

"It is strange having to swim in shorts again," said the Edinburgh youngster who now trains at the Intensive Training Centre at Stirling. "There is not nearly the same buoyancy as we had with the Polyurethane suits. But it was good to pack in a lot of events and races and I'm very satisfied with my results over the three days."

Edinburgh University's Fiona Booth got her name on the winner's roll by taking the 50m butterfly in 27.90, while Warrender's 14-year-old Fiona Donnelly, already a winner of the 50m backstroke, added the 100m title, the youngster clocking 1:02.28 as she held off East Lothian's Emma Hunter, who finished in 1:02.82.

But the best performer overall at the three-day championships was Garioch's Hannah Miley, who won all ten of the events she entered. Scotland's top swimmer completed the tally by winning the 400m individual medley and the 200m backstroke and breaststroke events in the final session.

"These three days were a big effort after some really tough training," said Miley, who is coached by her father, Patrick. "I'm doing 70 to 75,000 metres a week over 12 sessions in the pool and also have lots of out-of-water work. I'm also having to fit in my sports science studies at Robert Gordon's University, so it is hard.

"But everything is aimed towards the London Olympics and I've decided for the next two years I just have to isolate myself and concentrate on nothing except swimming and university."