British Swimming Championships 2010
Dates: 29 March-3 April Venue: Ponds Forge, Sheffield
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Rebecca Adlington dominated the 400m freestyle final to win her third title at the British trials in Sheffield.
Main rival Jo Jackson withdrew to leave Adlington in total control on Friday, equalling the world's fastest time this year in four minutes 5.50 seconds.
"It's so hard when you haven't got that person pushing you. I'm really pleased with that," said the 21-year-old.
Lizzie Simmonds beat Gemma Spofforth in the women's 200m backstroke while Liam Tancock won the men's 100m backstroke.
Several swimmers joined double Olympic champion Adlington in posting global fastest times for the year to date, including Simmonds, who recorded a lifetime best of 2:06.79 as she defeated 100m world champion Spofforth for the second time at the meet.
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I didn't get a very good night's sleep so I'm just looking forward to having a week off
Rebecca Adlington
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Tancock's winning time of 52.85, nearly two seconds faster than his nearest rival, would have been a world record prior to the introduction of ultra-fast hi-tech swimsuits last year.
With one day of British trials remaining, Adlington's focus now switches to August's European Championships in Hungary - for which she has now qualified in all three of her freestyle events, having won the 200m and 800m titles earlier in the week.
"I've been so tired all day and I didn't get a very good night's sleep so I'm just looking forward to having a week off," she admitted, having finished almost four seconds clear of Jazmin Carlin in second.
"But I'm really looking forward to the Europeans. It's a tough one for the freestyle distance events especially - the 800m, things like that."
Fran Halsall won the women's 50m freestyle final in a time of 24.77, while Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, the 16-year-old who won the women's 50m breaststroke in style earlier in the week, eased to victory over the 100m distance in 1:08.51.
Ajulu-Bushell, whose switch from representing Kenya to Britain and England is being formalised, has not lived in Kenya since she was 10 and returned to the UK in 2007, where she is a class-mate of diving world champion Tom Daley at Plymouth College.
She admitted: "The whole competition has been a really big learning curve for me.
"It has been a new type of pressure for me - pressure to perform, pressure to qualify but I'm not really fazed. It's all pretty new. But I'm pleased with my decision."
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James Goddard took the men's 200m individual medley title in 1:57.76, two seconds ahead of Joe Roebuck, and Michael Rock added the 100m butterfly title to his 200m crown in 52.66.
Robert Holderness took the 50m breaststroke in 28.73 and Georgia Davies set a new Welsh record of 28.54 in the 50m backstroke final.
Jackson withdrew from the 400m freestyle final following several months in which her asthma has worsened, leaving her gasping for breath after races throughout the week.
Though she said she was "gutted" on micro-blogging website Twitter, her withdrawal does not ruin her chances of competing for Britain at August's European Championships in Hungary.
Jackson has qualified for a place in the British relay team for the Europeans and, under the selection policy, could also be offered places in individual events - even though she failed to qualify in any of the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle races in Sheffield.
There is still time after the British trials for any swimmer to reach the Commonwealths, but the home nations' qualifying procedures for October's Games in Delhi differ.
Swimmers winning finals in Sheffield will almost certainly appear, but the selection process for the Commonwealths will be completed by the European Championships and individual English, Welsh and Scottish national trials at different dates in the summer.
A separate process applies in Northern Ireland.
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