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Teenager Dan Jones is making waves

Teenage swimmer Dan Jones continues to make waves in his blossoming career after capping a hectic summer with more medal winning success.

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The Oswestry Otter captain, a key member of the Shropshire team, powered his way to five personal best times at the Welsh National Championships in Swansea on his way to two golds.

He then had to leave the Welsh Nationals midway through after being called up to swim for Swansea Aquatics at the GB National Championships in Sheffield to form part of the club's 4x100m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay team.

It was the first time the club had put out such a relay team as there had never enough swimmers at that level before.

And the team managed to reach the finals in both events, with Jones producing four personal best times during heats and finals to reduce his time in the 200 metres freestyle from 1.54 seconds to 1.51.

Then, in the 100m relay, he launched another terrific swim to drop his time from 52 seconds to 50.9 which was another terrific achievement for the young swimmer.

The team swam so well that they reduced their finish time in the 4x200m relay by nine seconds to win silver – their second medal of the championships after also taking silver in the 4x100m.

Living over the border in Powys, Jones remains member of Oswestry Otters and the Shropshire team, although he has now moved to Swansea to train full time and further his career in the pool.

He has represented Shropshire, the Otters and Wales at national and international level since the age of eight and is now working towards target of a place at the Commonwealth Games 2018 which take placeon Austalia's Gold Coast.

Since moving to Swansea in April, he has been training hard with the Swansea Aquatic Elite Performance Squad to help him reach that goal and is eyeing further success next season.

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