Thomas And Davies Grab Silver In Japan

Alys Thomas and Georgia Davies struck double silver for Great Britain on the final day of the Japan Open.

Swansea Aquatics ace Thomas followed up her bronze in the 50metres butterfly with second place over the 100m distance.

And Loughborough University-based Davies added silver in the 50m backstroke.

Thomas clocked 58.37secs as Japan’s Rikako Ikee claimed the gold in 57.65 at the Tatsumi International Pool.

Davies finished in 28.08secs as Australia’s Minna Atherton came out on top in 27.80.

Dan Jervis, also of Swansea Aquatics, had taken bronze in the 1500m freestyle on the opening day of the meet.

The trio are among the five Welsh swimmers named in the GB squad for the World Championships in Hungary in July.

They had all taken to the pool after a tough training camp in Thailand as part of the build-up to Budapest – and the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.

Britain’s squad took 19 medals over the three days.

British Swimming Head Coach Bill Furniss said: “This tour has ticked all of the boxes. It’s what we wanted to do – to travel east in year one of an Olympic cycle leading into Tokyo.

“We had a tough camp in Thailand and then came into a really difficult competition, stacked with a great depth of Japanese talent.

“We knew we would have to swim the event in a compromised state, off the back of some very hard work, but we were very close to a 100per cent strike rate of our swimmers moving it on from heats to finals and I’m delighted by this.

“I’m pleased with how the team has coped with the travel and it’s back to the UK now for a few days’ recovery before phase two begins, the hard work continues and we head to the Seven Hills meet in Rome next month.”