Sporting Digest: Swimming

ASA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Finals (Sheffield): MEN: 50m freestyle: 1 M Fibbens (Barnet Copthall) 22.90sec; 2 M Foster (Barnet Copthall) 23.15; 3 A Rapley (City of Sheffield) 23.19. 200m backstroke: 1 A Ruckwood (City of Birmingham) 2:01.90 (British record); 2 G Robins (Portsmouth Northsea) 2:03.83; 3 J Fleet (Borough of Waltham Forest) 2:03.99. 200m butterfly: 1 K Crosby (Warrington Warriors) 2:02.11; 2 J Hickman (Stockport Metro) 2:04.04; 3 D Warren (City of Leeds) 2:04.30. 400m freestyle: 1 P Palmer (City of Lincoln) 3:55.46; 2 A Clayton (City of Leeds) 3:56.03; 3 S Mellor (Satellite) 4:02.08. WOMEN: 50m freestyle: 1 K Pickering (Ipswich) 26.40; 2 A Sheppard (Milngavie and Bearsden) 26.70; 3 S Rolph (City of Newcastle) 26.94 (English junior record). 200m backstroke: 1 K Osher (Barnet Copthall) 2:14.86; 2 J Deakins (City of Coventry) 2:15.91; 3 H Slatter (Warrington Warriors) 2:18.56. 200m butterfly: 1 M Madine (Irl) 2:17.05; 2 H Jepson (City of Leeds) 2:18.47; 3 H Slatter (Warrington Warriors) 2:19.48. 800m freestyle: 1 S Hardcastle (Borough of Southend) 8:50.91; 2 E Arter (City of Leeds) 8:58.59; 3 S Colling (Derwentside) 9:00.21.