TOMORROW'S Echo Memories is the first part of a story about Jack Hatfield who, 100 years ago, won three medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics - an extraordinary feat given that he was an unfancied 18-year-old and that it was another 50 years before GB won another medal in the swimming pool.

I think this is a fantastic story. Because I also want to get on to one of Jack's sons, also called Jack, I expected my story to run over a couple of weeks. However, because I, as usual, got so carried away with the first part, there wasn't room for the second part, which means next week's third part is already in difficulty and I haven't even begun to write it yet!

Anyhow, as tomorrow's first part concentrates on the 1912 Olympics, here's the second part which is a breakdown of how Jack won his three medals:

JACK HATFIELD AT 1912 STOCKHOLM OLYMPICS

July 7-15, 1912

1,500 metres (silver)

In the heats, Jack swum in 23 minutes 13 seconds, but George Hodgson of Canada smashed the world record by finishing in 22:23.

The semi-final pitched Hodgson and Hatfield together, the Canadian finishing two yards ahead of Jack in 22:26.

The final the following day was also a battle between the two men, with Hodgson finishing in 22 minutes precisely, but swimming on to set a world record in the mile. Jack finished in 22.39, 36 seconds ahead of the Aussie in third.

(In July 2011, Sun Yang of China set a 1,500m world record of 14:34.14 seconds.)

400 metres (silver)

In the heats, Hatfield swum five minutes 35.6 seconds, but speeded up to 5:25.6 in the semi-final just a fifth of a second, or "a bare touch", behind Hodgson who set a new world record.

In the final, Jack went marginally slower 5:25.8 but Hodgson improved his world record 5:24.4 and won gold.

Over this distance, though, Jack had the last laugh. In London two months later, he did 5:21.6 a world record that stood until 1919.

(In July 2009, Paul Bierdermann of Germany set a 400m world record of 3:40.07.)

4 x 200m relay (bronze)

Jack went on the third leg and was very much the baby of a team of medal-winners.

On the first leg was William Foster, 22, who had won gold in the relay in the London Olympics in 1908.

On the second was Thomas Battersby, 25, from Wigan whod won silver in the 1,500m in 1908.

On the final leg was Henry Taylor, 27, from Oldham, who had won three golds in 1908 a feat not even equalled by a Brit until cyclist Chris Hoy won three golds in 2008.

Taylor, who started breaking world records in 1906, had time before the outbreak of war to establish himself as the greatest British swimmer of the era. He then served in the navy, including at the Battle of Jutland, and in the 1920 Olympics, won bronze in the relay.

In the 1912 relay, a tight race, he brought the British team home in third.

Baby Jack was not out-classed. He covered the 200 metres in two minutes 29 seconds "by far the fastest time of any swimmer in the race", said the Echo.