YORK'S double Olympian Caroline Foot returned to competitive swimming in style.

She took the Yorkshire County Championship title for 50 metres butterfly at the

Yorkshire Championships at the Leeds International Pool.

Foot, set a heat time of 29.2 seconds as the fastest qualifier to the final, which she won in powerful fashion with 28.9sec.

The 36-year-old former York City Baths Club star, who has been out of competition through illness and injury since the Olympic trial for Sydney last July, has been on a reduced training schedule at Queen Margaret's School Escrick, where she helps to coach the girls' team together with husband Paddy Garratt.

YCBC collected seven titles at the championships with women's club captain Jenny Hoggard winning three junior titles.

She had a clean sweep in the butterfly events 50, 100 and 200m in the 16 years age group and also managed fifth place and two bronze medals in the same events in the senior competition.

Hoggard also achieved a national qualifying time in the 100m butterfly. She also came close to collecting a few more medals in the 200m back crawl 200m individual medley and 50m breaststroke where she finished fourth she was also part of the women's 4x50m medley which finished fourth and the 4x50 freestyle team which finished sixth.

Men's captain Tom Southam was another swimmer who won a hat-trick of gold medals, winning the 50,100m butterfly and the 200m individual medley in the 15yrs age group. He also earned a place in the men's finals in the 100m butterfly, finishing fourth, and the 200m IM in which he finished fifth. Southam was also fourth in the 50m freestyle and 100m back crawl.

Lewis Porylo picked up the last junior title for York in the 50m breaststroke and silvers in the 100m and 200m breaststroke. He also landed bronze in the men's final of the 200m breaststroke. In addition, Porylo swam the men's finals in the 50m were he finished fourth and the 100m, where he finished fifth.

Mandy I'Anson in her first swim at Leeds for three years took bronze in the 50m butterfly.

Updated: 10:45 Saturday, February 16, 2002