Swimming: Shipley's refurbished pool certainly lent itself to "Festive Fun and Fast Times" at the City of Bradford's 20th annual Christmas Meet.

There were 16 meet records set, 11 other times dipped under the old records and there were eight near misses - within a fifth of a second of the previous best. In addition there were three City of Bradford club records.

There were teams from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England and the Isle of Man among the 32 visiting clubs.

Home club members won four golds, the top swim coming from Tierney Maude in the 14yrs 100 metres freestyle.

She flew off her block and was never challenged, clocking 59-28sec.

That bettered the club record of double Olympian Janine Belton and was only five-hundredths outside the meet best.

Tierney won the final in 60.04sec and then notched a second national qualifying time with 28.02sec in the 50m freestyle. Katie Ford - Bradford's only gold medallist from last year - repeated her success in the 14yrs 100m backstroke, her best time of 1min 8.50sec coming in the heats.

In the youngest age group - ten to 11 years - national swimmer Lorna Dawson won gold for the 100m breaststroke.

Bradford's last gold went to James Moorhouse in the 13yrs 100m freestyle. He held off a strong challenge from Andrew McGurk (Birmingham), finishing only 0.07sec ahead in 60.12sec.

McGurk went on to to take the top 13-year-old boy award, and his twin Joanna was top in the equivalent girls' section.

James also took silver in the 100m butterfly to secure his place as Bradford's top male swimmer of the meet.

As well as Tierney's record, two others set new club marks. Catrin Morgan and Hannah Wharton recorded new best times in the ten years 100m breaststroke and freestyle with times of 1min 30.06sec and 1min 10.94sec respectively.

In one of the fastest ten to 11 years 100m freestyle swims for girls at the meet, five contestants went under the old meet record in both heats and finals, with City's Claire Pinder taking silver in 1min 7.21sec. Added to her other top-six finishes, this made Claire the top Bradford female swimmer.

Alexander Belk proved his class with a silver in the 12yrs 200m individual medley and third place in the 100m backstroke before going to a World-Class Start training camp with clubmate Carey Senczyszyn.

Loughborough University student and world team record holder Belton was also competing on home ground and broke three of her records in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle.

Her three-record feat was matched by team-mate Thea Evanson from Harrogate (200m backstroke, butterfly and individual medley).