Wales Medal Pair Daniel Jervis And Georgia Davies Set Sights On More Pool Success

Daniel Jervis and Georgia Davies are both targeting more success this year after finishing their Commonwealth Games efforts with hard earned medals for Wales.

Part-time painter and decorator Jervis brushed up on his bronze medal in Glasgow four years ago, by taking silver in the men’s 1500m freestyle.

Davies claimed a bronze in the women’s 50m backstroke – her third successive Commonwealth medal in three Games for a competitor who always delivers for Wales.

Both will now aim for the European Championships in Glasgow in August.

Davies then picked up a second bronze on the Gold Coast as part of the 4x100m medley relay team, along with Chloe Tutton, Alys Thomas and Kathryn Greenslade. They finished third behind Australia and Canada but smashed the national record by five seconds.

It completed a very successful tournament in the pool for Wales, following Thomas’s earlier gold medal in the 220m butterfly and Tutton’s bronze in the 200m breaststroke, of five medals – one gold, one silver and three bronze.

Xavier Castelli finished eighth in the men’s 200m individual medley final and Ellena Jones failed to qualify for the final of the women’s 400 metre freestyle which Jazz Carlin opted not to compete in.

Jervis smashed his own personal best by three seconds to finish behind Australia’s Jack McLoughlin in 14:48:67 and said: “I was having such a good time.

Georgia Davies. Pic: Getty Images.

“When you are under water, kicking off the walls, you can just feel the roar of the crowd. To win a silver medal, I’m Ianded. It was so much fun.

“My main aim was to make my mum and dad proud, and my girlfriend, and my family back home. Now, I want to go faster again in the rest of the season.”

Jervis, 21, finished little more than a second behind McLoughlin who won in 14:47:09 and was gaining on the Aussie at the end.

He promised: “That’s bronze, then silver, so next time I want to come back to the Commonwealths and get the gold.”

Davies was defending her Commonwealth title, but was just edged into third place, finishing in 27:90 behind Australian Emily Seebohm who took gold in 27:78 and Canada’s Kylie Massie, who was second in 27:82.

Davies, 27, said: “Fifites are always close, but it just wasn’t my night, tonight.

“Sometimes it’s about who can get their hands on the wall first and who has the longer fingernails.

“I would love to have gone faster, but I’m on the podium for three Commonwealth Games in a row and I’m pretty pleased about that.

“This is the first big meet of the year. We will go on to the Europeans and I definitely know I am capable of swimming a lot faster than that time.

“Hopefully, I’ll get to show that back on home turf in the summer. I’m showing my age a bit! But I’m proud of what I achieved.”

Wales diver Aidan Heslop starts his diving competition in the 3m board on Thursday.