WORCESTER Swimming Club’s Tazmin Pugh shone at Stockport Metro’s winter meet with Ellesmere College Titans team-mates Harry Bamforth and Chloe Golding.

Ex-Pershore High School pupil Pugh set a British and regional junior record for 15-year-old girls of two minutes 8.86 seconds in taking the 200-metre butterfly gold.

She tops the United Kingdom and European rankings ahead of Russian rivals.

Pugh heads to Toronto, Canada, for the Ontario Junior International for Team GB juniors next week with the first races on Friday.

At the Stockport meet, Vale swimmer Bamforth produced a 20-second personal best in the boys’ 15 years 1,500m freestyle with his 16.41.15 taking silver medal and making next month’s ASA National Winter Championships.

Pugh, in the girls’ 15-years category, won gold in the 400m individual medley in 4.44.95.

Evesham’s Golding, 17, set a PB in the discipline in 4.49.92.

Bamforth set more PBs in the 200m individual medley of 2.21.26, the 100m freestyle of 58.51 and the 200m backstroke of 2.15.04.

He set his fifth PB of the meet with 4.17.74 in the 400m freestyle.

Golding and Pugh qualified comfortably for the 15 and over 100m backstroke final.

Pugh then took gold and her PB of 1.00.70 put her first and fifth in the United Kingdom and European rankings respectively and eighth best time ever in Great Britain.

Golding secured silver in 59.52.

In the 200m freestyle, Pugh’s PB and regional junior record time of 1.59.95 beat three Belgians as she claimed gold to top the British rankings with the fourth best time ever.

On the second day, Bamforth clocked 4.51.00 in the 400m individual medley and a PB of 1.04.47 in the 100m backstroke.

Pugh set another regional junior record in the 200m individual medley of 2.16.27 for first in the UK and fifth in Europe before claiming the skins title by winning all her races.

Golding collected silver in the 50m backstroke in 28.54 and managed a PB of 4.20.79 in the 400m freestyle.