By Ian Gordon

Dan Jervis produced a controlled swim to book his spot in the final of the men’s 1500m freestyle at the European Championships in Budapest.

The 24-year-old Swansea swimmer, who won silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games for Wales, will bid for his maiden European medal on Wednesday evening.

Competing in a stacked final heat of the distance event, Jervis was never out of the top three in his race finishing second in 15 minutes 7.54 seconds.

Jervis, also part of the six-strong Welsh contingent bound for the Olympics in Tokyo in July, qualified with the fifth fastest time.

Countryman Calum Jarvis is also in Tuesday night’s final of the 4x200m mixed freestyle relay.

Leading off the British quartet, Jarvis clocked 1:49.68 and the Brits won their heat in 7:34.64 to qualify fastest for the final.

“It’s nice to open up with a relay and I had great fun out there in the mixed event,” said Jarvis. “I never really get the opportunity to do it, so to do it at a European Championships is great.

“We swam really well – we knew we had to get top two, but to come out and win it by quite a way is great.”

Jarvis will be looking to emulate Matt Richards who struck European silver on Monday night in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay.

Richards was back in the pool in the Hungarian capital on Tuesday morning in the heats of the 100m free.

Richards, Tom Dean Jacob Whittle were all drawn in heat nine of 10.

Dean led the Brits home to touch second, with Richards less than a tenth back (48.73) in fourth – half-a-second off the Welsh record the 18-year-old set in the trials in London in April.

With LEN’s two per nation rule in force it would mean one of the trio would miss out on the semi-finals.

Unfortunately that would be 16-year-old Whittle, who had a great swim to touch just 0.02 outside of his lifetime best.