Jack McMillan enjoyed a memorable evening at his training pool as he won the 200 free ahead of Olympic champion Tom Dean on day two of the McCullagh International in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
McMillan, who won the 100m free on day one, led throughout to stop the clock at 1:48.24 with Dean second in 1:48.45 and James Guy, who won 4x200m freestyle gold with Dean at Tokyo 2020, rounding out the podium in 1:49.63.
McMillan, who set an Irish record of 1:46.66 on the lead-off of the Irish 4×200 relay in Tokyo, trains with Bangor Swimming Clubs at the same Bangor Aurora staging the four-day meet.
Freya Anderson also completed the 100-200 double with victory in the women’s race in 1:59.66.
Dan Jervis had a winning margin of over 50 seconds in the 1500 free, with a time of 14:51.29 as the Welshman added to his 800 free title on day one.
Molly Renshaw, sixth in Tokyo, won the women’s breaststroke in 2:26.55 ahead of Loughborough training partner Abbie Wood (2:26.84) and National Centre Dublin’s Niamh Coyne (2:27.84).
Like Renshaw, James Wilby completed the breaststroke double with a 2:12.66 victory in the men’s race.
Conor Ferguson took gold in the 100m backstroke, his specialist event in 55.63, to add to Thursday’s 50m bronze.
Swansea’s Medi Harris claimed gold in the women’s final in 59.24, the only swimmer under the minute mark.
Adam Barrett, who won European and Commonwealth medley relay gold back in 2014, edged a tight 50 fly in 24.00, 0.03 secs ahead of Jacob Peters (24:03).
Harriet Jones won the women’s one-length race in 26.71 ahead of Tokyo Olympian Danielle Hill (27.07).
Charlie Hutchison won the men’s 400IM (4:22.91) and Ashleigh Baillie won the women’s 800 free in 8:51.36.