Swimming: Record for Jackson
Jo Jackson beat Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington on her way to setting a new world record for the 400metres freestyle.
Last Updated: 16/03/09 8:10pm
Jo Jackson set a new world record for the 400metres freestyle at the British Gas Swimming Championship in Sheffield.
The Loughborough swimmer, a bronze medallist at the Beijing Olympics, pipped Rebecca Adlington to clock a time of four minutes 00.66 seconds.
Jackson's superb swim at Ponds Forge saw her smash the previous mark set by Italian Federica Pellegrini by almost a second.
Olympic champion Adlington had to settle for second place, her time of four mins 00.89secs also being inside the old record.
Swimming well
"I knew I had been swimming well, I'd been swimming fast in training but you never know how you are going to swim in competition," Jackson said afterwards.
"To get a world record has just blown me away and for Becky to go under the world record as well - I'm so happy.
"I knew it was going to be so tough coming here because Becky is swimming amazing. She really pushed me there, I wanted it so much.
"I've never had the British record in the 400 so it's my first British record in the 400 and the world record! It's not a bad one."
Jackson had entered the competition with the fastest time in the world this year and dominated her heats in the morning, qualifying three seconds faster than Adlington.
The 22-year-old had never previously managed the best time by a British swimmer over 400m but is the record holder for the 200m freestyle.
