BRITISH GAS SWIMMING MEET LIVE: Day four (From Swindon Advertiser)
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BRITISH GAS SWIMMING MEET LIVE: Day four
Updated 10:21pm Sunday 10th March 2013 in Sport
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- Final day of action
- Ex-Wootton Bassett School pupil Jazz Carlin wins third gold medal of meet in 400m free
- Swindon's Grant Turner takes bronze in 100m free
- Ex-Swindon Dolphin flyer Tilly Gray fourth in 100m fly showdown
- Miley pulls out of 200m back
- Tweet using #swimadver
- Reporting by NED PAYNE
7:00pm
That about concludes our online coverage from Leeds. Look out for more in tomorrow's Adver. With four gold medals and one bronze from this weekend, Swindon has plenty to celebrate.
6:58pm
Gray was fourth in 59.87 seconds. Very good championships for her overall having made three finals and won the 200m fly.
6:53pm
No medal for Gray in the 200m fly. Jeanette Ottesen Gray wins it in 58.99. Alys Thomas gets a PB for silver (59.62) and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor also gets a PB (59.63) for bronze.
6:51pm
Jazz Carlin is going to finish this week as the joint-most decorated swimmer with three golds, just as an aside. Joe Roebuck managed the same feat.
6:46pm
Can she follow up her 200m gold with another medal?
6:43pm
Tilly Gray imminent in the 100m fly final...
6:41pm
BRONZE MEDAL
No gold for Turner, but being in heavy training I suspect he will be more than happy with that. Anthony Ervin triumphed in 49.21 ahead of Sebastiaan Verschuren (49.47) with Turner in third, making him the top Brit, incidentally (50.33).
6:19pm
Three more finals and then Turner goes.
6:08pm
Grant Turner is up next in the final of the 100m free. Bit of a wait first, though.
6:03pm
Jazz wanted to rebuild her confidence after the disappointment of last year. This must have done her self-belief the power of good.
6:01pm
GOLD MEDAL
That's a third gold medal out of three for Jazz Carlin. What a super few days she is having. The Swindon star clocks 4:07.14 to lead in Swindon-born Hannah Miley, who ends up with silver in 4:09.30, which is a PB for her.
5:45pm
Hannah Miley and Jazz Carlin are not far off competing in the 400m freestyle final. Carlin is after her third gold of the championships don't forget.
10:35am
THIS SERVICE WILL RESUME AT 5.45PM.
10:34am
That concludes our coverage this morning. Don't forget to join us from 5.45pm when our local swimmers contest three finals.
10:33am
Well, there is no sign of Miley at the starting blocks. She seems to be sitting this one out.
10:28am
One remaining race in terms of local interest this morning, as Swindon-born Miley races in heat four of the 200m back. This will be her 12th race in four days.
10:18am
DOUBLE COMMONWEALTH GOLD MEDALLIST ROSS DAVENPORT ON TILLY GRAY
She is having a fantastic championships after winning the 200m fly. She must have so much confidence at the moment and maybe she can go under the minute barrier (in the 100m fly) tonight. Speaking to the coaches at Loughborough, she came back with so much determination in September and really cracked on with the work.
10:15am
QUALIFIED
Gray has made the final as the sixth-fastest swimmer in 1:00.51 with Denmark's Jeanette Ottesen Gray the fastest qualifier in 59.08. Its a tough field in the final with the Netherlands' Ranomi Kromowidjojo and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor also set to compete.
10:12am
Here we go.
10:07am
The 100m fly heats are underway and Gray races in the fifth and final heat.
10:02am
QUALIFIED
Turner is through to tonight's final and will be among the favourites to take gold. The former Swindon Tigershark qualified third-fastest with Sebastiaan Verschuren the quickest in 49.71 seconds. He was the only swimmer to go sub-50, Renwick was the second-fastest qualifier.
10:01am
DOUBLE COMMONWEALTH GOLD MEDALLIST ROSS DAVENPORT ON GRANT TURNER
"I do think the likes of Grant Turner are the future of this event (100m free) and hopefully they can crack on."
9:59am
Robbie Renwick wins it in 50.83 seconds with Turner one hundredth of a second behind in second place.
9:58am
Kane Haggett leads at halfway.
9:57am
Turner is up. Here we go.
9:55am
The 100m free heats are underway and Turner is in heat four. He was the fastest 100m freestyler in Britain last year and had a cracking swim in the 4x100m relay at the Olympics.
9:47am
Don't forget to keep an eye on this liveblog from 5.45pm tonight when we will bring you coverage of the finals, at which there should be significant Swindon involvement. And tweet throughout the day using #swimadver on Twitter.
9:39am
After the heats of the men's 200m IM and the women's 50m breast, Turner, Gray and Miley are all in action in quick succession in the 100m free, 100m fly and 200m back respectively.
9:28am
QUALIFIED
Carlin and Miley are comfortably into tonight's final. Matthews was the fastest qualifier for the final with Miley second and Carlin third.
9:28am
Hannah Miley, who was born in Swindon, has just rattled out a 4:13.71 to win the last heat in a personal best time.
9:27am
Swindon's Jazz Carlin looks good to make the final of the 400m free. She came second in the penultimate heat behind Sasha Matthews. Carlin timed in at 4:13.85 while Matthews clocked 4:13.24.
9:22am
It's the final day of the British Gas Swimming Meet. Let's have some heats to kick us off.
