 Edmond was a comfortable winner |
Ian Edmond, Melanie Marshall and Mark Foster brought Britain's gold haul to seven on the final day of the European Short Course championships in Dublin. Edmond broke the European record in the men's 200m breaststroke before Marshall won the women's 200m freestyle and Foster took the 50m butterfly.
Edmond's time of two minutes, 5.63 seconds saw him come home ahead of Andrew Bree, who won Ireland's first medal of the championships.
Marshall struck late to overhaul defending champion Alena Popchanka.
The British swimmer finished in a time of 1:55.10 with Josefin Lillhage of Sweden pipping Popchanka for silver.
Double Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband broke his own European record in the 200m freestyle.
The Dutchman's time of 1:41.89 seconds beat the mark of 1:42.45 he set in January.
Van den Hoogenband then led the Dutch 200m freestyle relay team to a new world record of 1:25.55.
Mark Veens, Johan Kenkhuis and Gijs Damen swam the first three legs with Van den Hoogenband clocking 20.73 for the anchor leg, the fastest time of the race.
Hungary's Eva Risztov won her second title of the championships with a comfortable victory in the 400m individual medley.
Germany's Antje Buschschulte set a European record of 2:04.23 to win her second gold of the meeting in the 200m backstroke.
The old mark had been set by Briton Sarah Price, who had to settle for fourth.
Defending champion Peter Mankoc of Slovenia and Finland's Jani Sievinen shared gold in the men's 100m individual medley in a dead-heat after both clocked 53.35 seconds.
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