Three golds among five-medal haul for University of Bath swimmers Jono Adam and Ed Mildred at first LEN European U23 Champs
University of Bath student Jono Adam and training partner Ed Mildred won five medals between them, including three gold, at the inaugural LEN European U23 Swimming Championships in Dublin.
Adam, who studies Sports Performance, was the first European home in the men’s 50m backstroke final on Saturday, touching the wall in 25.12 to edge out Greece’s Evangelos Makrygiannis by one-hundredth of a second.
He repeated the feat in Sunday’s 100m backstroke final, again finishing runner-up to South Africa’s Pieter Coetze but taking the European title in a time of 53.67.
Adam’s first medal of the weekend had come in the mixed 4x100m medley relay final, where he helped Britain place third overall and win European silver in 3:47.15.
Mildred – who, like Adam, is a member of the British Swimming Performance Centre Bath squad coached by David McNulty and Jamie Main at the Team Bath Sports Training Village – claimed the European 100m freestyle gold in 48.90.
“It’s a pretty good feeling,” he told LEN TV. “I haven’t been on the top step of a podium for a while so it’s nice to be back up there. I can take a lot of confidence into an Olympic season, which is the biggest season of them all.”
He was back on the podium in the last race of the weekend, the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay final where Britain won European silver in 3:28.52.
The 🇬🇧 team finished 2nd on the Euro U23 🏊🏻♀️ Championship medal table (5🥇’s to Ireland’s 6), but won more honours (13) than any other nation in 🇮🇪!
Day 2&3 saw…
🥇🥇 Jono Adam,🥇 @keanna2001
🥇 @EdM1ldred, 🥈 @lily_booker01
🥈 mixed 4x100m free,🥉Alex CahoonTheir interviews👇 pic.twitter.com/1SVRhyTnAW
— Nick Hope – the athlete’s journalist (@NickHopeTV) August 14, 2023
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Pictures credit: LEN / István Derencsényi.
