Haywood won the 100m breaststroke at last week's British Olympic trials

Lincoln's Kate Haywood and Exeter's Liam Tancock are Great Britain's main medal hopes on Thursday at the World Short Course swimming in Manchester.

Haywood, 21, qualified fourth for the 50m breaststroke, and 22-year-old Tancock scraped into the 100m backstroke final, qualifying eighth.

Lizzie Simmonds (100m backstroke) and James Gibson (100m breaststroke) also have finals on Thursday night.

Mark Foster will swim in the 50m freestyle semis alongside Matt Tutty.

Foster, who will be 38 next month, qualified second fastest in the morning's heats.

Thomas Haffield and Euan Dale qualified for the opening final of the night, the 400m individual medley - Haffield qualifying in first place - but both will have to contend with imposing US star Ryan Lochte.

Hannah Miley will do battle with Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry once again in the first 100m individual medley semi-final.

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Miley set a new European record in Wednesday night's 400m individual medley, but had to settle for silver as Coventry smashed the world record.

Fran Halsall claimed two British records in Thursday morning's heats, in the 50m butterfly and 100m freestyle.

Halsall will compete alongside GB team-mates Jemma Lowe, in the fly, and Caitlin McClatchey in the free.

The British men's 4x200m freestyle relay team qualified second behind the USA for their final, which rounds off Thursday night's programme.