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200M BUTTERFLY
Boldizar Kiss set an impressive pace for the first 100m of 56;91 but paid for it over the third length as Poland's Pawl Korzenowski pile on the pressure with Matthew Edwards of Great Britain the fastest qualifier, moving into third place. The Polish swimmer who had the best personal best time of 1min 58;06sec, went from strength to strength finishing some two and a half seconds ahead of the field and the only one to dip under the two minute barrier, with a championships record of 1min 58;32sec this shaved 0;16 off the figures record in 1998 by Russia's Anatoli Poliakov. Kiss dug deep to hang onto silver in 2min 00;80sec. Edwards faded on the closing metres and had to relinquish third spot to Hungary's Adam Madarassy.

50M BREASTSTROKE
Alessandro Terrin completed a breaststroke double when he added the 50m to the 100 won the previous evening. The eighteen year old Italian produced a championships record with a time of 28;12sec 0;42 inside the previous best set three years ago by Hungary's Mihaly Flaskay and place him 0;71 ahead of the silver medallist Gabor Financzek of Hungary. Bronze went to Anthony Thiallet of France, in 29;05.

1500M FREESTYLE
It was third time lucky for David Davies of Great Britain, having been second and third in the 200 and 400m freestyle respectively as the eighteen year old won the 1500m freestyle by almost 25m from Poland's Premyslaw Stanczyk. This was the host countries' fourth gold of the championships and the only one not over the 50m distance and possible the only one that pleased National Performance Director Bill Sweetenham, for at the World Championships the tough talking Aussie would not count medals won any of the 50m expect the freestyle as they are not in the Olympic programme. He did admit it brought satisfaction for the medallists. Davies' who had been disappointing in his tow previous individual swims led from the start challenging his rivals to stay with him if they could. His winning time of 15min 09;59sec was just 0;28sec outside the championships record established four years ago by Igor Chervinskiy of the Ukraine. Stanczyk came hom ein 15min25;24sec with the bronze going to Sebastian Rouault of France, in 15min 34;64.

WOMEN

400M FREESTYLE
Russia dominated this event with Regina Sytch and Daria Parshina taking control from the start, Parshina at fifteen the younger of the duo, led by inches for the first 250m. But then Sytch seeking her third gold medal, stepped up the pace with Parshina trying to hang on. Slowly the elastic started to stretch and eventually snapped. Sytch came home in 4min 12;28sec with her fellow teammate taking silver 1;33 in arrears. Kerianne Payne of Great Britain was comfortable in third place until the final 25m when she came under pressure from Evangelia Tsagka of Greece. The British girl managed to hang on to win her second medal of the championships in 4min 16;64sec 0;64sec ahead of her Greek rival. The championship record for this event has stood since 1986 to East Germany's Heide Grein.

50M BACKSTROKE
Gemma Spofforth gave Great Britain their third gold of the championships, when she lowered her own British junior record to take the 50m backstroke in 29;40sec. This was just 0;06 outside the championships best established last year by Stanislava Komarova of Russia. With five metre to go there was nothing to choose between the first four but it was the British girl who found that little extra finishing just 0;27 ahead of Kateryna Zubkova of the Ukraine. Hungary's Nikolett Szepesi snatched bronze in 29;76.

4x100M FREESTYLE RELAY
Germany led from start to finish to hang onto their title to establish a championship record of 3min 46;78sec slicing 0;66sec off the record set five years ago by another German quartet. The battle was for the minor medals. For the first three legs the positions changed but on the final 100m Russia silver medallist last year, made sure of the runners-up spot again finishing in 3min 49;56sec with the British quartet taking bronze just half a second behind.