Sporting Digest: Swimming

WELSH LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Cardiff): Men: (Saturday) 50m butterfly: 1 S Mavin (Peterborough) 26.11sec; 2 D Russell (Portsmouth) 26.85; 3 M Watkins (Torfaen) 26.94. 100m freestyle: 1 P Brew (Kelly College) 53.39; 2 N Tait (Portsmouth) 53.62; 3 M Battelle (Irl) 53.87. 200m backstroke: 1 A O'Connor (Irl) 2min 6.30sec; 2 C Jones (Cardiff) 2:06.39; 3 R Clement (Gloucester) 2:12.61. 200m breaststroke: 1 A Ayers (Swansea City) 2:22.13; 2 D Sharkey (Trojan, Irl) 2:25.69; 3 P Melhuish (Cardiff) 2:27.17. 400m freestyle: 1 G Robins (Portsmouth) 4:05.79; 2 P Brew (Kelly College) 4:06.87; 3 M Clements (Portsmouth) 4:07.05. (Yesterday) 100m backstroke: 1 A O'Connor (Irl) 58.14; 2 C Jones (Cardiff) 1:00.57; 3 P Griffiths (Cardiff) 1:02.56. 200m medley: 1 Jones 2:11.55; 2 A Birner (Cardiff) 2:14.58; 3 N Tait (Portsmouth) 2:16.50. Women: (Saturday) 50m freestyle: 1 S Hopkins (Chester) 27.46; 2 R Brett (Hull Olympic) 27.55; 3 M Lock (Cardiff) 27.66. 100m backstroke: 1 E Tattam (Portsmouth) 1:05.38; 2 J Ricketts (Wycombe) 1:08.23; 3 J Solomon (Taunton) 1:08.50. 100m breaststroke: 1 H Gorman (Nova Centurian) 1:13.97; 2 L Findlay (Wycombe) 1:14.16; 3 G Galligan (Trojan, Irl) 1:14.38. 200m butterfly: 1 E Rickard (Greenwich) 2:20.44; 2 V Hale (Swansea City) 2:21.34; 3 M Pedder (Portsmouth) 2:23.10. 800m freestyle: 1 K Goddard (Portsmouth) 9:02.16; 2 S Herridge (Kelly College) 9:18.99; 3 S Thelwell (Hull Olympic) 9:29.60. (Yesterday) 100m butterfly: 1 N Goodwin (Nova Centurian) 1:03.68; 2 T Dray (Portsmouth) 1:05.59; 3 J Thompson (Nova Centurian) 1:06.43. 200m medley: 1 L Findlay (Wycombe) 2:20.64; 2 H Gorman (Nova Centurian) 2:27.83; 3 H Nicholson (Gloucester) 2:29.76.