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JEMMA LOWE was in recordbreaking form again at the weekend, smashing the 200m butterfly mark at the Middlesbrough Open.

The Borough of Stockton swimmer set a new mark of 2.04.01. Stockton team-mate, Jessica Dickons had set the previous record of 2.05.09 when winning bronze at the World Short Course Championship's in Manchester last month.

Jemma's new mark ranks as the third on the all-time list and just 0.5 seconds short of the European record set in December last year by Poland's Olympic Gold medallist, Otylia Jedrzejczak.

Coach Phil Taylor said "Jemma is just in fantastic form right now and producing performances that are an inspiration not only to us at Stockton but everyone involved in swimming locally.

"It's so pleasing that her latest British Record swim was done before a local group of enthusiastic swimmers and officials here on Teesside at the Neptune Centre in Middlesbrough.

"Just before she swam I said to another coach that this is the closest that we will get to the Olympics hoping for a performance worthy of an Olympic Games. It was moving that everyone present lined the pool and gave a standing ovation for a fantastic performance.

"For Jemma it is another step in continued progress towards competing in Beijing and hopefully a crack at breaking the world record. She produced a swim worthy of an Olympic medal never mind an Olympic final and we're hoping that she can achieve that in Beijing."

11:12am Tuesday 13th May 2008

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