CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON'S Emma Wicks shone brightly at the Haslemere Open Meet with a hat-trick of gold medals.

The teenager, competing in the 13-year age group, also collected three silver and two bronze medals from her eight swims to be named top 13-year girl swimmer at the meet.

Wicks has recently been selected for the World Class Start Programme, following her performances at last summer's National Age Group Championships.

Her three gold medals were in the 200m freestyle in 2min 9.69sec, the 200m medley (2:25.62) and the 400m freestyle in 4:29.14. All the times broke the existing meet records and were the fastest times of the meet for all Age Groups.

Despite a storming last length and an impressive personal best of 2:24.40, Wicks just failed to catch Haslemere's Chloe Winter by 0.12sec in the 200m butterfly. Their impressive times beat the existing meet record by 11 seconds. City of Southampton swimmer Emma Macey took bronze in 2:37.17.

Further silvers in the 50m and 100m butterfly, and bronzes in the 50m and 100m freestyle completed Wicks' medal haul.

Alexandra Hamilton added Southampton's fourth gold dedal in the 16 years' 100m freestyle winning in 1:00.25.