KRISTINA NEVES had never swum for more than one hour at any one time before yesterday.

KRISTINA NEVES is no stranger to winning titles and the Guernsey swimmer insisted she was delighted to bag yet another after taking gold at Sainsbury’s School Games.

KRISTINA NEVES has broken another two long-standing Guernsey records in a dominant display at the Hampshire County Championships in Portsmouth.

ONE of the oldest records of the Beau Sejour Barracudas’ Specsavers Series has been broken by 11-year-old Louis Tostevin.

KRISTINA NEVES admitted her taste of the London 2012 Olympic big time was a frustrating one with the after-effects of illness causing the Guernsey teenager to be a little shy of her best.

KRISTINA NEVES has clinched a place on the British team for the European Junior Championships.

IAN POWELL twice broke his own 200m backstroke island long-course record at the British Gas Championships at the Aquatics Centre in Olympic Park.

THE London 2012 Olympic pool has yielded another island long-course record.

TOP Guernsey swimming coach Alison Frankland is urging realism as the island’s top four swimmers compete in the new London 2012 Olympic pool over the coming week.

GUERNSEY swimmer Kristina Neves may be about to face the glamorous prospect of competing at the Olympic Aquatics Centre, but she is going to have to kick the most mundane of problems first – the flu.

KRISTINA NEVES was once again the standout talent as she dominated the Channel Island Championships at Les Quennevais in Jersey.

As we reach the conclusion to our countdown, Kristina Neves is revealed as the winner of the Guernsey Press Sporting Achievement of the Year award, while a top athlete is recognised on the international stage and there is a double for cricket in the team and event categories.