Great Britain won gold at the first archery World Cup tournament of 2008, with Alison Williamson, Naomi Folkard and Charlotte Burgess winning the women's recurve team event, their second successive World Cup gold, having won the team tournament on home territory, in Dover, last August.
Gymastics, European Championships: Beth Tweddle wins the silver medal in the floor exercise.
An excellent weekend for the British modern pentathlon, with Heather Fell winning gold in round three of the World Cup, following a strong cross country run to secure her first World Cup win. Sam Weale won his first World Cup medal, a bronze, in the mens final.
Sailing: British trio Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson have clinched the Yngling European Championship in Spain.
The favourites for gold in Beijing now hold all three major titles - the World Championship, the 2007 Pre-Olympic title and the European crown.
World Short Course Swimming Championships in Manchester.
Team GB won 24 medals in total, five more than any other country, to finish 5th in the medal table:WORLD SHORT COURSE MEDALS
USA: 10 gold, 6 silver, 1 bronze
Australia: 8 gold, 9 silver, 2 bronze
Netherlands: 4 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze
Zimbabwe: 4 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
Britain: 3 gold, 10 silver, 11 bronze
Our golden swimmers were Kris Gilchrist, pacing his 200m breaststroke perfectly, Liam Tancock in the 100 metres backstroke, winning from lane 8 and Rebecca Adlington in the 800m freestyle, beating Austrlia's best, Kylie Palmer by nearly four seconds.
And if I could actually find a list, I'd tell you the rest. Of all the tons of info on the BBC sport website and the links to FINA and the ASA, not one single one of them actually lists all our medal winners. Much as I'd love to sit through every session on I-player, I just don't have the time. Here are the ones I could find, I'm missing a silver medallist - feel free to let me kow who it is! And rest assured, I have emailed 606!
Silver:
Liam Tancock 200m individual medley and the 50m backstroke.
Mark Foster 50m freestyle
Lizzie Simmonds 200m backstroke.
Fran Halsall 100m freestyle.
Hannah Miley 400m individual medley.
Kate Haywood 50m breaststroke
The men’s 4x200m freestyle relay in 6 mins 56.52 seconds, a new European record.
David Davies 1500m freestyle.
Bronze:
James Goddard 200m IM
GB's women smashed the National record in the 4x100 medley relay.
Robbie Renwick 400m freestyle in a British record 3:40.22.
Hannah Miley in the 200m individual medley.
Caitlin McClatchey 200m freestyle,
Jessica Dickens in the 200m butterfly.
4x100m women freestyle quartet of Fran Halsall, Caitlin McClatchey, Julia Beckett and Mel Marshall
Jo Jackson, setting a new British record 4:01.11 in the 400m freestyle.
Liam Tancock 100m individual medley, setting a stunning new European record in the semi.
17-year-old Jemma Lowe when she came in third with a new British record of 56.84 in the 100m butterfly.
Fran Halsall 50m freestyle.
It was a record-breaking championship for Britain's swimmers, who set 44 national records as well as nine Commonwealth and European marks to give them the perfect boost with the Olympics now less than four months away.
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