Sporting Digest: Swimming

ENGLAND SQUAD (Preliminary selection for Commonwealth Games, Victoria, Can, 18 to 28 August): MEN: 50m freestyle: M Foster (Barnet Copthall). 100m freestyle: M Fibbens (Barnet Copthall). 200m freestyle: A Clayton (City of Leeds). 400m freestyle: P Palmer (City of Lincoln). 100m backstroke: M Harris (Borough of Waltham Forest), A Ruckwood (City of Birmingham). 200m backstroke: Harris, Ruckwood. 100m breaststroke: N Gillingham (City of Birmingham). 200m breaststroke: Gillingham. 200m butterfly: K Crosby (Warrington Warriors), J Hickman (Stockport Metro). WOMEN: 100m freestyle: K Pickering (Ipswich), S Rolph (City of Newcastle). 200m freestyle: Pickering, A Bennett (Nova Centurion). 400m freestyle: S Hardcastle (Bracknell), V Horner (Derwentside). 800m freestyle: Hardcastle. 100m backstroke: K Osher (Barnet Copthall). 200m backstroke: Osher, J Deakins (City of Coventry). 200m breaststroke: J King (Tigersharks), M Hardiman (City of Birmingham). 200m individual medley: H Slatter (Warrington Warriors), Rolph. 400m individual medley: Slatter. (Remainder of squad to be selected after ASA national championships, Crystal Palace, 28 to 31 July).