British quartet advance
Hannah Miley, Lizzie Simmonds, Georgia Davies and Kris Gilchrist all progressed to Sunday evening's finals at the European Short-Course Championships where Amaury Leveaux set his fourth world record of the competition.
The Frenchman lowered his own mark to 22.18seconds in the heats of the 50 metres butterfly after becoming the first man to break the 45-second barrier in the 100m freestyle on Saturday.
The 23-year-old also set a new mark in the 50m freestyle meaning there have so far been six world records and, with Alexandra Putra's efforts in the 200m backstroke and France in the men's 4x50m medley relay, 25 European records set in Rijeka.
Todd Cooper set a personal best of 23.77secs but just failed to progress along with Michael Rock, fourth in Saturday's 200m event.
Gilchrist is third fastest into the 200m breaststroke final. James Gibson, 100m bronze medallist, and Richard Webb both took four-second chunks off their PBs but failed to progress.
Simmonds had to watch as her European 200m backstroke record fell to Putra in the heats.
The Frenchwoman clocked 2mins 2.36seconds to wipe 0.24secs off the mark set by the 17-year-old at the World Short-Course Championships in March.
However, the Briton went in the next heat and managed to secure qualification as fourth fastest into the final with the French pair of Putra and Alexianne Castel both looking ominous.
Georgia Davies has had a highly-successful competition, lowering her PB with every race and the 18-year-old squeezed into the final as the eighth fastest qualifier.
European record holder Miley was third fastest through to the final of the 400m individual medley in 4:31.97.
