World Champion James Guy delivered Britain’s first medal of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015 in Qatar with a comfortable victory in the 400m Freestyle.
The Millfield swimmer, who won gold at this year’s World Championships in the 200m Freestyle and silver in the 400m Freestyle, was a full two seconds ahead of the rest of the field and Stephen Milne (Perth City) joined him on the podium with a hard-fought bronze.
The British squad rounded off day one at the Hamad Aquatic Centre, Doha with silver in the 800m Freestyle thanks to Jazz Carlin (National Performance Centre, Bath).
Britain’s swimmers are currently undergoing a hard block of work to lay the foundations on which they can build their performances for 2016 and, over the next two months, they will combine this with race preparation and process practice across a number of events.
The winter events begin this week when 22 athletes across both Podium and Podium Potential programmes compete at the FINA World Cups in Doha (2-3 Nov) and Dubai (6-7 Nov).
A further squad of 12 athletes will compete at the LEN European Short Course Championships in Israel (2-6 Dec) and a small group of seven will take part in this year’s U.S. edition of the Duel in the Pool which takes part in Indianapolis (11-12 Dec).
The Amsterdam Cup (11-13 Dec) will be attended by a group of seven while athletes also have the chance to compete at the Scottish and English short course championships in December.