Great Britain’s medal haul continued on Day Two of the 2005 European Youth Olympic Festival with a further five medals won by Team GB.

Jean-Rene Badrick won Bronze in the -66kg Judo competition to add to Toni Prince’s bronze from yesterday. The London athlete, who took gold in the European Cadet Championships last month, lost his first round match against Romania’s Adrian Gheorghe Moga but won his subsequent repechage matches and went on to defeat Germany’s Stefan Thiele in the bronze medal match.

The British swimmers continued to marvel in the pool, winning a staggering four gold medals, all in new EYOF records.

Lizzie Simmonds two record-breaking swims were the most impressive performances of the day. Just one hour after taking 4½ seconds off the 200m backstroke EYOF record (2:14.68), the Lincoln swimmer smashed another record in the 200m IM final (2:18.73). The fourteen-year-old swimmer led from the start of the backstroke and was in a different league to her opposition. She now has three gold medals from this championship.

Day Two’s first Gold medal came courtesy of Lauren Collins, who won the 100m freestyle in a new EYOF record of 57.9s. Lauren, who won gold in the relay yesterday, powered ahead over the last 15 metres to secure victory.

Great Britain’s 4x200m freestyle mixed relay squad won Britain’s last Gold of the day. Adam Brown, Ellen Gandy, Steven Beckerleg and Ceri Unwin teamed up to break yet another EYOF record, with a winning time of 7:59.68.

Steven knew the team had the capability to take gold: “Training was going well and we knew we’d been swimming well over the past couple of days. We’d sussed out the competition and we knew we could win. It was out of this world. To be with everyone and to compete for your country was incredible. It was great, an excellent experience.”

Adam added: “We were aiming for under 8 minutes and we did it. This event is completely different from anything I’ve done before. It’s massive. You can’t beat singing the national anthem on the podium, it’s a dream come true.”

The four gold medals won today bring the Great Britain swimming medal haul to nine (Seven gold, one silver and one bronze) after only two days of competition.

In the athletics stadium, Nigel Levine finished sixth in the 100m final, in a time of 10.88, just eight hundredths of a second outside his personal best, while 2004 AAA U15 100m & 200m champion Chinedu Monye was fifth in the women’s 100m final in a personal best time of 11.91. James Shane, the English Schools 1500m champion won his first-round 1500m heat to comfortably qualify for Thursday’s final.

Team GB gymnast Jodie Standish injured her ankle in training on Saturday and had to withdraw from two pieces of apparatus in the team competition. However, Jodie and team-mates Zoe Allen and Hannah Clowes performed bravely to finish 10th overall.

Daniel Cox found the going tough against his second round opponent, Andrei Karatchenia (BLR), in the tennis competition. The size and strength of the older competitor was just too much and he succumbed to a 1-6, 0-6 defeat.

At the end of Day Two Team GB have won a total of 11 medals (seven Gold, one Silver and three Bronze).

Two British female swimmers, Lizzie Simmonds and Ellen Gandy, have three gold medals each, while team-mates Ceri Unwin and Lauren Collins each have two.

Over 2000 teenage athletes from 48 European countries are competing in the 2005 European Youth Olympic Festival in Lignano, Italy. Great Britain has sent 56 athletes in seven sports (athletics, canoe, cycling, gymnastics, judo, swimming and tennis) to the event.