WORCESTER Swimming Club’s 11-strong team tackled the City of Bristol international open meet.

Several won medals against nationally-ranked opposition.

In the girls’ 12 year age group, Megan Annis produced personal bests and several fast times in the new qualifying window for the Home Nations Championships.

Annis won both the 200m backstroke (two minutes 36.79 seconds) and 50m back (33.78).

She added bronzes in the 50m butterfly (32.29) and 100m butterfly (1.14.22) for her first medals at a long-course level one meet.

Will Gearey and Matt Richards battled for medals in the boys’ 13 year age group.

Golds came in the 100m freestyle (59.10) and 50m butterfly (28.38) for Gearey.

He produced PBs, adding silver in the 100m breaststroke (1.19.25) and 100m butterfly (1.05.26) plus bronzes in the 200m individual medley (2.25.63), 200m freestyle (2.10.60) and 50m freestyle (27.14).

Richards’ best swim came in the 200m individual medley, clocking a PB of 2.22.46.

He then claimed third places in the 400m individual medley (5.09.25), 50m backstroke (32.14) and 50m butterfly (29.64).

In the girls’ 13 year group, Olivia Fletcher won silvers in the 200m individual medley (2.33.31), 200m freestyle (2.15.49), 50m freestyle (28.90) and 100m freestyle (1.01.60).

Leyla Tayar produced PBs in the 100m freestyle (1.09.45), 100m butterfly (1.14.21) and 100m breaststroke (1.30.78) ahead of the West Midlands Championships in Coventry next month.

Sophie Davis pushed hard in the 14 year group for top-10 finishes in the 100m breaststroke (1.24.87) and 50m breaststroke (39.49).

Sam Hall, 15, won the 200m breaststroke (2.34.31) and 50m breaststroke (32.76) with silver in 100m breaststroke (1.12.76).

For the girls, Ellie McGinnes bagged top-10 finishes in the 200m backstroke (2.41.04) and 50m backstroke (34.47) with Yasemin Tayar doing likewise in the 100m butterfly (1.12.95) and 50m butterfly (32.25).

Lucy Clayton, 16, powered to bronze in the 50m breaststroke (34.89).

In the open age group, Anthony Redfern, 19, was unlucky not to grab gold in the 50m freestyle, being edged into silver in 24.42.

He also won bronze in the 50m butterfly in 26.45.