MAKING her first appearance since the Barcelona Olympics, Sharron

Davies set a world record in the 25 to 29-year-old 100 metres free-style

of 58.68sec at the weekend's Glasgow Invitation Masters at Whitehill.

The 29-year-old also won a gold in the 100m breast-stroke in 1min

15.47sec.

Hull's Jack Hale set the event's second world record with a time of

35.28sec in the 70 to 75-year-old 50m butterfly, the stroke which he

introduced to competitive swimming.

JANI Sievinen set a European 50 metres back-stroke short-course record

of 24.81sec at the Finnish championships in Hyvinkaa on Saturday.

Sievinen bettered the previous record of 25.01 set by Sweden's Rudi

Dollmayer in January.