Duncan Scott ended the 2022 British Swimming Championships by collecting his third gold medal of the event in the men's 200m freestyle on Sunday.
After finishing atop the podium in the 400m and 200m individual medley races - setting a new British record in the former - Scott posted a time of 1:45.54 to clinch the 200m freestyle title.
The 24-year-old took the crown after finishing second in the event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and he was "delighted" to end his Championships with another gold medal after being left less than impressed with performances in the heats.
"To be honest, I was quite disappointed with how the heats were as a 200m Freestyle in Britain as a whole, I thought we were quite lazy this morning," Scott told British Swimming.
"I don't know if it was a couple of us feeling sorry for ourselves on last day of the meet, but I just thought the standard we need to try to hold, it wasn't good enough. But some people moved it on quite a bit there tonight. It was good to see. I just hope we are able to keep moving things on the rest of this year and the next few years then into Paris.
"The 200m Freestyle on the last day of a trials is always a battle because day six in Ponds Forge is quite a difficult one. For that, it makes it that bit better because it is such a battle.
"I'm really delighted with my week's racing, it's been pretty challenging, the first time I've had the 400m IM in the schedule too which adds to that intense fatigue, so I'm happy with it."
Silver medallist Thomas Dean was less than two tenths of a second behind Scott with a time of 1:45.73, while James Guy finished third after clocking 1:46.44.
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