Sport in Short: Swimming

OPTREX NATIONAL WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS (Sheffield): MEN: 400m freestyle: 1 P Palmer (City of Lincoln Pentaqua) 4min 47.38sec; 2 I Wilson (City of Sunderland) 3:51:22; 3 S Mellor (Satellite) 3:51:41. 50m breaststroke: 1 J Hender (City of Leeds) 28.26; 2 J Parrack (City of Leeds) 28.52; 3 S Handley (City of Bristol) 29.11. 50m butterfly: 1 M Foster (Barnet Copthall) 24.13; 2 M Jones (City of Southampton) 24.96; 3 J Bradley (Milngavie and Bearsden) 25.17. 400m medley: 1 G Robins (Portsmouth Northsea) 4:16.63 (British record); 2 D Warren (City of Leeds) 4:19.96; 3 M Hooper (Portsmouth Northsea) 4:20.56. WOMEN: 100m freestyle: 1 K Pickering (Ipswich) 55.44; 2 S Davies (Portsmouth Northsea) 56.94; 3 C Huddart (City of Leeds) 57.23. 50m breaststroke: 1 Z Baker (City of Sheffield) 31.66; 2 K Rake (Maxwell) 32.16; 3 L Coombes (City of Southampton) 32.54. 50m butterfly: 1 Davies 28.39; 2 N Goodwin (Nova centurion) 28.54; 3 M Lock (City of Cardiff) 29.00. 400m medley: 1 H Slatter (Warriors of Warrington) 4:45:75; 2 M Hardiman (City of Birmingham) 4:47.89; 3 D Palmer (Killerwhales) 4:50:50. 4 x 200m freestyle relay: 1 Portsmouth Northsea 8:25:70; 2 City of Leeds 8:26:66; 3 Nova Centurion 8:28:15.