Heidi Earp and Rosalind Brett used the experience gained at the Sydney Olympics to make their mark on day two of the British Winter Short Course Championships.

Earp the nineteen year old moved women's breast-stroke up a notch when she lowered the national record for the 200m breast-stroke. She admitted "I wanted to go for it in the heat" adding "That's what's wrong with British swimming, people not swimming fast enough in the heats".

After a morning swim of 2min 28;28sec she set the pace from the start in the final. The teenager took the race on from the start and never relented to take victory for a third consecutive year.

She sliced one and a half seconds off the five year old mark held of Marie Hardiman, when she touched home in 2min 25;24. The university student said "I've been getting so close to the records (short course) but now I've smashed it, I'm pleased."

Also satisfied was Bill Sweetenham the new National Performance Director he wants swimmers to go hard in the heats and faster in the finals.

With the absence of Susan Rolph the former European champion, in the 100m freestyle Brett seized the opportunity to caused an upset. Brett the twenty one year old who swam the 4 x 100m freestyle relay in Sydney, out paced the former Commonwealth champion and record holder, Karen Pickering, and Alison Sheppard the Scottish record holder, to produce the second fastest time ever by a British swimmer of 54.23.