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Warrender's Lewis Smith put the finishing touches to his preparation today for the European Short Course Championships which get underway in Debrecen, Hungary tomorrow.

The annual meet is the showcase of the short course swimming season in Europe and will play host to some very fast racing over the next four days.  Several world records will no doubt be under threat as world famous swimmers such as Laure Manaudou, Marleen Veldhuis, Stefan Nystrand, Oleg Lisogor, Laszlo Cseh compete for honours.

Smith is part of a 31 strong Great Britain team which contains a mixture of established senior internationals seeking medals, and rising youth stars using the meet for experience.  On the opening day Smith will contest the 200 I.M. and 400 Freestyle events.  These will be followed by his favoured 400 I.M. on day 2 where he will be aiming to make the final, and finally the 200 Butterfly on day 3.

Warrender's head coach Ian Wright is in Hungary with Smith as part of the British team's eight strong coaching staff.