Edinburgh’s Kris Gilchrist claimed a silver medal at the British Gas Championships in Glasgow  - but he felt like a winner at the end of the 100m breaststroke. 

With a 200m breaststroke place in the GB team for next month’s world championships in already safe, the 25-year-old took the silver medal in the shorter event in 1:01.51. 

England’s Darren Mew won in 1:01.37 but it was slower than Gilchrist’s time of 1:00.98 from the first set of trails in Sheffield in March and so it is Scot who joins British Champion James Gibson in Team GB. 

“That’s what I wanted,” said the Edinburgh man who trains in France. “The 100m is my second event but it always first on the programme so it means I can blow away the cobwebs in Rome.”

But he does have one complaint looking ahead to Italy – the fact that swimming’s world governing body has not put a ban on some of the new body suits.

“Nowadays it’s not so much about swimming as to what suit someone is wearing,” he claimed.

“I’ve decided on my make, but not the model, for the worlds. But you do stand on the blocks and wonder what the person next to you is wearing.”  

Scotland’s Lewis Smith was gutted to clinch his world spot by a finger tip touch.The Warrender 21-year-old lost the gold medal in the tough 200m individual medley by a cruel one hundredth of a second to Joe Roebuck. The Englishman won in 2:00.92.

But the Edinburgh youngster stayed positive. “My main event is the 400m medley tomorrow,” he pointed out.

“To get into the team for the world in Rome in the 200m would have been a bit of bonus. But I just lost out in the 400m freestyle yesterday by a few tenth, so to even closer today is hard.