Shetland swimmer Andrea Strachan has qualified for the trials for this summer’s London Olympic Games. She is the first isles swimmer to have reached such a high level in the sport.

Swimming star Andrea Strachan has been awarded a national sports scholarship given to Scotland’s most promising student athletes, including Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games hope­fuls.

They did it again! Shetland’s Andrea Strachan powered her way to a remarkable fourth gold medal in the 100m individual medley at the island games last night while Amy Harper took a second off her qualifying time in the 100m freestyle to take the silver. And Shetland has its first games medal in the men’s swimming courtesy of Felix Gifford who won bronze in the 400m freestyle.

Shetland swimmer Andrea Strachan won an unprecedented third gold medal tonight, taking the 100m breaststroke title at the island games in the Isle of Wight. She had broken the games record in her heat earlier today in a time of 1.11.88.

Shetland’s women swimmers made their remarkable island games even better tonight when Andrea Strachan won a second gold medal to add to last night’s and Amy Harper, who had already won a silver, secured a bronze.

Shetland swimmer Andrea Strachan won gold in the women’s 50m breaststroke at the island games tonight, breaking the tournament record for the distance for the second time in one day, while Amy Harper took silver in the 200m freestyle.

Andrea Strachan won the bronze medal in the 50 metre breaststroke at the British Gas Amateur Swimming Association National championships being held at the Pond Forge leisure centre in Sheffield yesterday.

Swimmers Andrea Strachan from Lerwick and Amy Harper from Gulberwick are competing in this week’s Amateur Swimming Association National Championships (ASAs) at the Pond Forge Leisure Centre in Sheffield.

With the island games just around the corner Gulberwick swimmer Amy Harper’s form in the pool continues to go from strength to strength.

A first milestone for every young competitive swimmer is to go under 30 seconds in the 50 metres freestyle, and at the weekend 13-year-old Chloe Nicolson of the Lerwick Swim Team did just that.