City of Oxford's Sam van de Schootbrugge struck gold and silver in the Crawley Spring open meet.

Van de Schootbrugge touched first in the 200m freestyle and finished second in the 400m, as well as setting national qualifying times in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle.

Carly Hayles, 15, won gold in the 200m backstroke, inside the national qualifying time.

Ben Chapman and Drew Finnigan, both 14, achieved long course bests in the 200m freestyle and 50m freestyle. Hannah Vine, 13, in 100m breaststroke and backstroke.

WITNEY secured runners-up position in the Division 1 final round gala of this year's Chiltern Swimming League Competition at Linslade.

It was only the penalty of five "speeding tickets" which stopped them taking the league title for a third successive year.

Sam Bark, 14, set personal bests in the men's open freestyle and butterfly to earn the swimmer-of-the-match award.

The runner-up vote was shared by nine-year-old Holly Coulson, who won the 10 and under breaststroke and Bethany Locke, who took the 14 and under freestyle title.

OTHER WITNEY WINNERS E Moore (breaststroke), N Moore (individual medley), M Colling (butterfly), Philip Bennett (backstroke), R Prosser (backstroke), Redd Pratley (freestyle) and Jake Cockroft (breaststroke).