Gold medallist Georgia Davies admitted she put extra pressure on herself going into the 50m backstroke final at the 2018 European Swimming Championships following her record-breaking swim a day earlier.

Davies set a new European best time of 27.21 in her victorious qualifying heat on Saturday morning at Glasgow’s Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

She followed that up with a victory in the semi-finals, placing her as firm favourite going into Sunday evening’s final.

The 27-year-old didn’t disappoint, getting the better of Russia’s Anastasiia Fesikova and Finland’s Mimosa Jallow to take the gold medal, but she revealed she felt the weight of expectation.

Davies said: “I never would have expected the record to go in the heat and I think that meant I put a bit of extra pressure on myself and thought that people were going to expect me to go faster.

“When it comes to the final times are just so irrelevant. You just have to swim your own race and it’s about who can get their hand on the wall first.

“I didn’t mind about the time tonight but I really wanted to win.”

It was a third European gold medal for Davies, and the first in individual competition. Her two golds at London in 2016 came in the 4x100m and 4x100m mixed medley relays.

She’s no stranger to winning gold in Glasgow either, having won the 50m backstroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

It was one of two gold medals for Britain on the third night of action in Glasgow. Soon after, the team of Calum Jarvis, Duncan Scott, Tom Dean and James Guy won the 4x200m freestyle relay final.

For Scott, it was the second medal of the night. He’d already claimed a silver in the 100m freestyle, where he finished behind Italy’s Alessandro Miressi.

Scott said: “It’s a team with a couple of new faces and everyone executed their legs really well.

“In the 100m I was just happy to get through each round. It was one of those races where I could just as easily have finished sixth.”

Georgia Davies Reacts to European Record Swim at Glasgow 2018 – Video