Competition Day 1

Up for an early breakfast and to the pool to bag some seats (If we had been German we would have been up even earlier and saved our seats with some towels).

The viewing area was packed and hardly any standing room, team GB supporters sat together and like the swimmers were easily the most vocal.

It was well into the morning before Big Ben appeared and stormed through his 50 metre Backstroke to a personal best of 39.00 and taking a full second off his entry time and giving him his first GOLDDDDDDD of the Championships

Joanne was next and her task looked formiddable as she had the slowest entry time in her heat amazingly she pulled out all the stops finishing 4th and knocking an unbelievable 6 seconds off her 100 metres Backstroke time.

Ben rounded off the morning with a 3rd place and European record in the 400m Individual Medley which secured him another GOLDDDDD in the Mosiac catergory.

Off back to the pool to watch other swimmers compete in the world Finals and fingers crossed for the other important result:    can Huddersfield Town beat Brighton at the John Smiths Stadium?????