SWIMMERS from Mount Kelly and Plymouth Leander helped Great Britain top the medal table at the European Junior Championships in Slovakia.
Great Britain won 19 medals in total, including nine golds, in Samorin.
Mount Kelly’s Blythe Kinsman will be returning with two gold medals and a bronze.
The 18-year-old produced a stunning swim to win the European junior title in the women’s 50m backstroke.
She clocked a personal best time of 27.79 seconds to take victory, which puts her seventh on the all-time British list.
Silver went to Denmark’s Martine Damborg in 28.18, with Daria-Mariuca Silisteanu of Romania earning bronze in 28.26.
“It’s a very special medal,” said Kinsman afterwards. “It means so much to me after the last few years when I haven’t quite been able to achieve what I wanted, so I’m really proud.”
She then produced another eye-catching swim to help the GB mixed medley relay to gold in a championship record time of 3:47.07.
Kinsman led them off with a 1:00.64 backstroke leg, before Filip Nowacki, Dean Fearn and Theodora Taylor brought them home to gold.
The Mount Kelly student also won an individual bronze medal in the women’s 100m backstroke. She clocked 1:00.70 to finish third in the final behind Romania’s Daria-Mariuca Silisteannu and France’s Jeanne Lechevalier.
Plymouth Leander’s Jack Brown and Mount Kelly’s Joshua Inglis picked up a relay gold medal in the men’s 4x100m medley event.
Inglis swam the heats to get GB into the final, where Brown was joined by Fearn, Nowacki and Gabriel Shepherd as they took victory in 3:38.09.
Brown and Mount Kelly’s Rio Daodu also enjoyed a medal-winning performance in the men’s 4x100m freestyle event, where they claimed bronze.
There was an individual medal for Mount Kelly’s Edith Price. She took silver in the women’s 200m butterfly event in a time of 2:10.42. Price was only beaten by Belgian swimmer Sarah Dumont.
Price and Kinsman also came agonisingly close to winning a relay medal for GB in the 4x100m women’s medley event, but they were just pipped for bronze and had to settle for fourth place.
Inglis and Daodu did reach individual finals – Inglis in the 100m breaststroke event and Daodu in the men’s 50m backstroke.
There was also success at the championships for Mount Kelly’s Polish swimmer Flawia Kamzol, who won the women’s 50m butterfly final in 26.17 seconds and picked up a bronze in the 100m butterfly event and one in the mixed medley relay.
At the European Junior Diving Championships, Plymouth Diving’s Amelia Underwood reached both the girls’ A one-metre and three-metre finals and claimed two top eight placings.