Three swimmers based at the University of Bath's Intensive Training Centre helped set new British records at the LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul.

Bath pair Darren Mew and Matt Clay joined forces with Craig Gibbons and Antony James to set a new national best of 1:34.20mins for eighth place in the final of the men's 4x50m medley relay.

"We all worked really hard for this," said Clay.

"We went in there with a target of getting the record and we just put our heads down and got on with the job."

Clay then helped the 4x50m freestyle relay team, which also featured Bath's Ian Hulme along with Gibbons and Charlie Turner, finish sixth in a British record time of 1:25.41.

The quartet had already broken the old record in the heats where they clocked 1:25.75.

Hulme appeared in his first senior international final when he clocked 53.43 to take 10th place in the men's 100m individual medley.

Speaking afterwards, Hulme said: "It was pretty tough out there. I was nervous and waiting in the call room was a bit daunting but I wanted to swim well.

"If anyone had said to me before this week that I would be swimming in the final I wouldn't have believed them, so it's been a great meet for me."

Clay, meanwhile, reached the semi-finals of the men's 50m backstroke, finishing eighth in 23.99.

"It was a mad rush out there," said Clay. "I was slow off the start and the competition was tough."

University of Bath swimmer Chris Walker-Hebborn is one of 14 Brits to feature in the E-Stars team that will tackle the might of the USA at the British Gas Duel in the Pool meet in Manchester tomorrow and on Saturday.

Double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington is also in the team, while the legendary Michael Phelps features for the USA.