Butleigh swimmer Rob Holderness set a new national swimmingrecord at the Commonwealth games in Delhi on Tuesday.
The former Millfield School student swam a time of 1minute1.90seconds in the 50m breaststroke heats, a new Welsh record. The20-year-old's third-placed finish also earned him a place in thesemi-finals.
Holderness' sister, Georgia, also tasted success on Tuesday asshe made the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle, following her semi-final appearance in the 50m breaststroke the previous day.
The siblings study and swim at Florida State University and havehad plenty of success at national school competitions.
The young athletes also have previous international experience,having represented Great Britain before. Georgia is competing at herthird Commonwealth games at just 22, having first swam at theManchester Games in 2002 aged 14.
In what must have been a nail-biting day for the Holdernessfamily, Rob swam in the second semi-final of his event, missing outon the final by 0.04 seconds.
The race was immediately followed by Georgia in the 100mfreestyle, who was equally unfortunate not to reach the final,finishing seventh in her semi-final.
Both Rob and Georgia are back in action early this morning, Rob in the 50m breaststroke, before Georgia in the 50m freestyle and100m breaststroke.
Rob will finish an exhausting week for the pair by competing inthe 200m breaststroke on Saturday.
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