SINGAPORE SLING SHOTS

Stirling-based swimmers bound for stint in World Championships

- STUART MCFARLANE

A group of Stirling-based swimmers are preparing to jet out to Singapore tomorrow as they prepare to hit the pool for the World Swimming Championships.

The ten-strong contingent will include eight athletes competing for Great Britain - anchored by Olympic legend Duncan Scott and rising stars Angharad Evans and Katie Shanahan.

The group, all coached in Stirling University's coveted high-performance programme, also includes Keanna Macinnes, Holly McGill, Freya Anderson, Lucy Hope and Jack McMillan for Britain alongside Paige van der Westhuizen and Arvin Shaun Singh Chahal.

The latter two athletes will swim in the event for Zimbabwe and Malaysia.

Scott, who became Scotland's most decorated Olympic athlete with his seventh and eighth medals in Paris last year, is relishing his sixth World Champs and will be hoping to add to his hardware tally.