Perth swimmer Stephen Milne has been selected to represent Great Britain in this summer’s World Championships in Russia.
The Perth City Swim Club member won 1500 metres gold in the British Championships last week, and is one of six Scots to make the 30-strong squad for the week-long August event.
Hannah Miley, Ross Murdoch, Robbie Renwick, Dan Wallace and former Strathallan School pupil Duncan Scott are the others.
Scottish Swimming’s national coach Alan Lynn said: “Congratulations to the six Scottish swimmers selected for this summers’ World Championships.
“Following our successful Commonwealth Games performances in 2014, the competition this year gets tougher as they take on the best in the world.
“Everyone is back in training to make sure that their performances move on in Kazan and we are confident that they will do this.”
Miley added: “Scottish swimming is really strong at the moment and it’s great to see.
“We are a contender and it’s not just going to be fully dominated by the English. It’s nice that the Scots can produce top and world class athletes.
“We’ve got the facilities, we’ve got great coaches about and it’s a really good course for Scottish swimming to step up in and make a mark on.”
Meanwhile, Adam Peaty insists Great Britain’s swimmers are no longer prepared to be bullied out of gold medals.
The 20-year-old established himself as a favourite at the World Championships by destroying the 100 metres breaststroke world record by more than half-a-second at the British Championships.
The Uttoxeter swimmer, who burst on to the international scene last year with six gold medals and one silver across the Commonwealth Games and European Championships as well as setting a new 50m breaststroke world record, will now aim to back it up when global medals are on the line in Russia.
And Peaty believes the British team as a whole will head to Russia in rude health.
“It’s nice to have set a mark out to prove how strong British swimming in general can be,” Peaty, who believes he can go “quite a bit faster”.
“Hopefully in these next few years British swimming is going to be a force to be reckoned with and we are not going to be bullied by all these other countries.
“Going to the Worlds I can hopefully move it (the record) on again and show Great Britain is not this little nation that gets second and third.”
Britain’s swimmers endured a disappointing London 2012, failing to land a gold medal and having to settle for just two bronzes, won by the now retired Rebecca Adlington, and a silver.
At the World Championships the following year they fared even worse, bringing a meagre one bronze medal home from Barcelona.
And, with one year to go before the next Olympics in Rio, Peaty says there is a strong desire to bounce back.
“Definitely,” he said. “I wasn’t there in 2012 or 2013, so you get the aftermath. We are on the up now, so we’ve got to keep that momentum going.
“We are very strong at the moment.”