Five of City of Oxford's National and Youth squad competed at the City of Milton Keynes Long Distance Open Meeting with outstanding results, bringing home 15 medals between them.

Pippa Canlan-Shaw, 17, Laura Ralph, 14, and 13-year-old Sam van de Schootbrugge each earned three golds and a silver in their four individual events.

Van de Schootbrugge swam personal bests in each event, with his times in the 200m backstroke (2mins 15.25secs) and 400m IM (4.55.62), both qualifying times for 2007 National Age Group Championships.

He won both events, along with the 200m IM, and finished second in the 200m breaststroke.

As a bonus, the 400m IM time earned him the 13-year-old Dutch national age group Record, which he takes from Olympic medallist Pieter van den Hoogenband.

Ralph swimming up in the 14/15 year old category, did especially well to win the 800m freestyle in an excellent best time of 9.32.74, as well as taking gold in 400m freestyle, 200m IM and silver in the 200m freestyle.

Canlan-Shaw took gold medals in the 16 &over 200m IM, 200m freestyle and 200m breaststroke, the latter in a personal best of 2.52.65.

She also won the prestigious girls open 'Skins' competition.

David Norridge bagged a silver in the 14/15 category for 200m backstroke, plus two well-deserved golds in the 200m and 400m freestyle with significant personal bests of 2.06.64 and 4.29.77 respectively.

Simon Ward, 13, had a successful last open meet before emigrating to New Zealand, achieving new bests in three of his four events.