Tom Bielich swam the second fastest time by a Manx swimmer over 100 metres in Sheffield last week.
Competing at the British Universities Short Course Swimming Championships, his time of 52.73 seconds in the 100m freestyle not only achieved the Bath University student his first Glasgow Commonwealth Games consideration time, but moved him to within less than one 10th of a second of the island record (52.64s) set by Alan Jones in 1997.
Fellow Manx swimmer Charlotte Atkinson took four gold medals at the South West Short Course Championships and achieved a further 10 Commonwealth Games consideration times. She also set five new senior island records in the 100m fly, 200m fly, 200 individual medley and 400 IM, giving her a top-three national ranking in each of these events.
Atkinson, who is now based in Plymouth, achieved almost a five-second personal best in the 200m butterfly with a time of 2m 11.95s which places her at the top of the national age-group rankings.
Ben Kebbell competed at the South East Winter Championships, setting a new junior short course island record in the 200m breaststroke with a time of 2:31.71.
That record was held by Guy Davies who was also in record-breaking form in Manchester. He lowered his own senior island record over the weekend to a new best time of 1.08.1 for the 100m breaststroke at the North West Winter Championships.
This was enough to take bronze in that event, adding it to the silver he took in the 200m breaststroke in a race he finished behind Team GB athlete Russell Smith form Stockport Metro.
Davies was joined in Manchester by both Laura Kinley and Luke Guthrie.
Kinley, returning from a back injury, confirmed her Commonwealth standard in 50m breaststroke and Guthrie set new personal bests in four events including 200m freestyle where he was top Manx swimmer in the long-course pool in 2m 2.3s.
Isle of Man Swimming Club head coach Lee Holland was delighted with the performances and said: ‘After the success of our national championships, to see the records continue to tumble is a real encouraging sign, especially at this time of year when they are training so hard.
‘It really is exciting in a Commonwealth year to see such fast times and more athletes achieving the Games consideration standards.’