JACOB Peters blasted to another national record and led a 24-medal spree for Poole swimmers at the South West Youth Championships.

The 15-year-old sliced 0.17 seconds off his own British age group record as he won the 16yrs 50m butterfly in 25.10 at the regional showdown in Plymouth.

The time also broke the South West and Dorset junior long-course records – Peters’s 40th county record in 10 months and one of five set by Poole swimmers at the event.

Peters is now just 0.16 seconds outside a Dorset senior record set 14 years ago by Seth Chappels, whose time of 24.94 in 2002 put him alongside former world champion Mark Foster on the British Championships podium.

Peters also won gold in the 50m backstroke and 100m butterfly (28.19 and 56.18) and silver in the 50 and 200m freestyle (24.87 and 54.15).

Harriet Perfect, 15, broke her own Dorset senior and junior records as she won the 16yrs 100m backstroke in 1:04.94.

She won silver in the 50 and 200m backstroke in 30.82, also a county junior record, and 2:21.39.

Team-mate Jazz McCrea won gold, silver and bronze in the 15yrs 100m butterfly, 200m medley and 50m fly respectively, setting a Dorset junior record of 28.82.

Poole’s Thea O’Keefe won medals in four of the five freestyle events – gold in the 16yrs 200 and 800m and silver in the 100m and 400m.

Emily Clarke won gold in the 17-and-over 400 and 800m freestyle and silver in the 50m fly, while Jasmine Holmes won a hat-trick of bronze medals in the 17/o 100, 200 and 400m freestyle.

Poole completed their tally with silver and bronze from the 17/o freestyle and medley relay team of Madison Kemp, Leonie Wiehle, Clarke and Holmes.

Their 24 podium placings took them to fourth in the medals table behind swim scholarship outfits Plymouth Leander, Millfield and Mount Kelly.

Christian Tai won four medals to top a Bournemouth Collegiate School tally of 11 that placed them ninth in the table.

Tai won gold in the 15yrs 400m individual medley (IM) and a 100m butterfly final in which team-mate Jack Arnell was second, plus silver in the 200m fly and bronze in the 50m fly.

Lottie James won the 16yrs 100m breaststroke with team-mate Tamsin Edge third while Alesha Gibson took silver in the equivalent 15yrs final.

Zoe Gannaway won silver in the 200m freestyle and bronze in the 400m free.

Amy Mills added a bronze to the BCS tally in the 15yrs 400m IM in 5:17.80, keeping Poole’s McCrea out of the medals by 0.01sec.

Abbie Manns and Morgan Long put Swim Bournemouth on the podium with bronze medals, Manns coming third behind Gibson’s second place in the 15yrs 200m breaststroke, Long in the 16yrs girls’ 50m freestyle.