BETH Aitchison gave herself a timely confidence boost with two record-breaking Littledown swims just days before this week’s trials for the European Junior Championships.

The Bournemouth Collegiate School swimmer is currently top of the British rankings for 15-year-olds in the 100 and 200m breaststroke following her title-winning swims at the Dorset County Championships.

Her results make her a major contender for the British team for Poznan, Poland, in July, which will be selected from results at the British International Meet, which starts in Leeds today.

In what may be one of her last swims for Seagulls following BCS’s split from the Christchurch club, Aitchison toppled records held by two of Dorset’s most accomplished breaststrokers and added the senior, junior and age group county titles in the 50 and 100m breaststroke to the 200m gold from the previous week.

Her time of 1:11.28 in the 100m knocked 0.75sec off the junior competition best time (CBT), set by Alex Savage in 2002, the year before she swam in a relay final at the World Championships in Barcelona.

In the 50m Aitchison’s 33.24 sliced 0.88sec off the junior CBT set in 2009 by former national age group champion Naomi Vides.

The times also brought her with a second and half-a-second of the Dorset junior records, held since 2000 by Charlotte Evans, who went on to become ASA senior national champion the following year.

Savage holds the senior records from 2005 (32.31 and 1:09.54).

Swim Bournemouth’s Jay Lelliott picked up where he left off the previous weekend, breaking his own senior Dorset record and senior and age group CBTs with winning times of 1:59.62 in the 200m backstroke and 2:00.59 in the 200m butterfly.

His 200m freestyle time of 1:51.72 also smashed the senior CBT and fell just 0.3sec short of the Dorset senior record, held by Martin Littlefair since 2010.

Poole’s Todd Price set his first Dorset senior record with a winning 4:40.65 in the 400m individual medley, lowering a Seth Chappels mark that had stood for 13 years. The time also broke the senior CBT held by Joe Poynter.

Breaststrokers Noah Vides (Poole) and Zak Aitchison (Seagulls/BCS) both broke two CBTs in their respective age groups.

Vides, 16, claimed the senior titles over 50 and 100m with times of 30.89 and 1:07.02, while Aitchison, 14, won both junior golds in 32.01 and 1:08.09.

Swim Bournemouth’s Ellie Kerslake, 16, set a senior and age group CBT as she became county champion in the 200m backstroke in 2:18.13.

In the younger age groups, Poole’s Jessica Richens slashed nine seconds off her PB to set a new age CBT as she won the 13yrs 200m butterfly in 2:29.60.

Swim Bournemouth’s Lucy Brain, 13, claimed another set of senior, junior and age group titles in the 200m freestyle in 2:10.08, while Abbie Quarrie’s winning 1:33.94 set new figures in the 10yrs 100m breaststroke.

Two boys went under the old CBT in the 9yrs 200m backstroke, Swim Bournemouth’s Ryan Symington taking the gold in 2:56.12, Seagulls’ Nathan Gerrard the silver in 2:57.43.

Bournemouth’s Finn Trehane and Seagulls’ Jacob O’Hara both set age CBTs as they respectively won the 11yrs and 10yrs 100m breaststroke (1:26.86 and 1:34.20).

Seagulls’ Harriet Perfect added her name to the records list with a 12yrs CBT in the 200m backstroke (2:26.77).

Poole’s open girls’ team of Katie Mills, Vicky Joy, Jasmine Holmes and Maddy Kemp set the final CBT of the weekend as they won a thrilling 4x100m freestyle relay, while Poole continued their three-year domination of the 12/u boys’ titles, winning the 4x50m medley.

Seagulls won the girls’ and boys’ 14/u medley relay and the girls’ 12/u freestyle while Swim Bournemouth won the men’s 4x100m medley.

With only the long distance events to go, Swim Bournemouth lead the overall points tall by 826 with 2,890, ahead of Seagulls (2,064) and Poole (1,579).