DAVID Murphy led the way as City of Oxford members amassed seven open gold medals at the South East Regional Winter Championships in Portsmouth.

Murphy took the senior championship honours in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke events with respective times of 28.0secs, 59.83 and 2.13.27.

Murphy also took bronze medals in the 200m and 400m individual medley (2.05.99 and 4.26.28 respectively),

Clubmate Kate Mills won the 50m and 100m butterfly in 28.05 and 1.02.25, while Emily Nisbet’s victory came in the 200m butterfly in 2.15.75.

Emily Wood (2.27.99) won the 200m breaststroke and added a silver in the 100m breaststroke (1.09.79).

All four swimmers have been selected for the South East Region team to compete at the Fédération Francaise de Natation, Golden Tour Camille Muffat in Nice, France from February 2-6.

This is one of the most important pre-Olympic meets, attended by world class swimmers.

Callum Smart added junior championship golds in the 50m breaststroke (29.23) and 100m breaststroke, the latter in an Oxon & North Bucks junior county record of 1.02.81.

Smart’s times also saw him take silver and bronze respectively in the open category.

Lewis Gilchrist won silver in the 200m junior backstroke (2.07.73) and bronze in the 100m backstroke (1.00.13.

Maia Little added a bronze medal in the junior 100m breaststroke in 1.12.83 with Connor Bryan getting bronze in the junior 200m breaststroke in 2.20.65.