The men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay team won the gold medal and claimed a championship record at the World Junior Championships 2008.

The team, which features Robert Bale, Ryan Bennett, Thomas Parris and Christopher Walker-Hebborn, performed excellently and touched home in a time of 7:20.18.

The squad have been focused on relays for this meet, the principle behind the relays focus is to continue efforts to provide strength in depth within British Swimming with 2012 in mind.

The silver medal went to Germany who finished in 7:20.27 and bronze was won by Japan in 7:24.71.

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The 2nd FINA World Junior Championships take place in Monterrey, Mexico from 8th to 13th July 2008.

The British Swimming squad comprises:

Emma Wilkins (Plymouth Leander)
Sasha Matthews (Arnold)
Jenna Turner (Ealing)
Liesje van de Velde (Beckenham)
Zoe Hester (Plymouth Leander)
Lauren Collins (City of Birmingham)
Emma Bird (Bramcote Swimming Club)
Charlotte Barnes (Trowbridge)
Rachel Haigh (City of Newcastle)
Lucy Worrall (Stockport Metro)
Robyn Matthews (City of Edinburgh)
Rebecca Turner (Ealing)
Chris Dart (University of Bath)
Daniel Sliwinski (Preston)
Robert Holderness (Millfield)
Robert Bale (Carnforth Otters)
Jack Dunn (City of Sheffield)
Ryan Bennett (Preston)
Daniel Scott (Glenrothes)
Chris Walker-Hebborn (Offshore Centre)
Thomas Parris (Offshore Centre)
James Doolan (Offshore Centre)

For further details contact British Swimming Media Officer Gemma Field on 01509 632262, 07917 726431 or email gemma.field@swimming.org

British Swimming is the National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain.  It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport. The members of British Swimming are the three Home Countries national governing bodies of England (Amateur Swimming Association), Scotland (Scottish Amateur Swimming Association) and Wales (Welsh Amateur Swimming Association). British Swimming seeks to enable its athletes to achieve gold medal success at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

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