Britain leads the table in the pool with tomorrow's open water event determining the overall IPC World Swimming champion. The British haul of 24 gold, 14 silver and 14 bronze medals puts them just one gold ahead of the USA and four golds clear third-placed Ukraine.

 

Britain was neck and neck with America going into the final night of competition and there was little to tell the countries apart as both nations secured three individual golds. It was down to the final event of the Championships to determine the winner and Britain's 20-point 4x50 metres medley delivered the gold to propel them to the top of the table.

 

The quartet of Fran Williamson, Natalie Jones, Liz Johnson and Jane Stidever put in a solid performance at the end of a busy meet to take gold in 3min 28.97sec.

 

In the individual event, Watts swam to her fourth gold of the meet with victory in the S1 100m freestyle.

 

Watts, who set a world record in the 200m event earlier this week, was just outside her lifetime best to touch in 2:57.73.

 

"I'm really chuffed with that," she said. "I could see the girl in the next lane and she was chasing me all the way. I knew she was close and I had to put a bit of acceleration on.

 

"I've had a great time out here and the support staff and coaches have been amazing. Without their support I wouldn't have achieved what I have. My coach Eddie McCluskey has been brilliant. The work he has done on my starts and turns has really made a difference."

 

Swansea's Dave Roberts added another gold to his collection with victory in the S7 50m freestyle. Roberts kept off British team mate and world record holder Matt Walker to take the title in 28.73 seconds.

 

"I'm on top of the world," said Roberts. "There was a lot of pressure going into this race. I've been behind Matt all year and so I knew it was going to be tough. My aim was to get ahead at the 25m mark and if I was leading there I knew I could finish it off. It was a great race and it's good to have top quality competition like that."

 

Walker finished in 29.32 for bronze behind American Lantz Lamback who touched in 29.19.

 

"I don't know what happened," said Walker. "I've not swum well all week, it's been a bad meet for me. I've had a really good year in general though and there's always another day. And on the positive side, I'm still the world record holder."

 

Kenny Cairns grabbed further individual gold for the team, and a bronze medal performance in the 20-point 4x50m medley team boosted his personal contribution to two gold and two silver.

 

Cairns won gold in the S3 100m freestyle in 1:53.84, just three hundredths of a second off the British record, before joining up with teammates Anthony Stephens, Gareth Duke and Sascha Kindred for the relay bronze and a new British standard of 2:51.59.

 

"I've trained really hard this year for the distance events and I knew the competition would be tough," said Cairns. "All the races here have been hard and they've all been very close which is good for the sport.

 

"I came here looking to win medals and swim personal bests so I'm really pleased to have got two gold and two silver. The conditions haven't been great for me coming into this meet, but it's the same for everyone so to have achieved what I did is brilliant. I'm just happy all that hard work paid off."

 

In the S2 100m freestyle, Jim Anderson won silver in 2:23.45 behind new-boy Dmitry Kokarev of Russia to bring his meet total to one gold and three silver medals.

 

"I gave it everything tonight and I'm really shattered," said Anderson.

 

"I went six seconds quicker than this morning, which is good. I did all I could but the Russian is younger and stronger than me. I'll have the think about my race plan now and I look forward to racing him again in Beijing or at the European Championships next year if they go ahead."

 

Swim Swansea's Anthony Stephens snatched bronze in a tight S5 100m freestyle. After a slow start, Stephens put on the gas for the final 25m and hit home in 1:17.18 to edge out world record holder Sebastian Rodriguez of Spain.

 

"I'm a bit disappointed with the time, I was hoping for a PB," said Stephens. "I knew it would be a fight for the bronze but I'm surprised with the result. It's the end of competition and the 200m Freestyle really took it out of me. I'm sore and tired so I'm just pleased to medal."

 

Kindred collected his third individual medal of the meet with bronze in the S6 50m butterfly. He touched in 34.01 behind Russia's Igor Plotnikov and new world record holder Peng Li of China.