Havana, Cuba last night when Stephen Troake struck bronze in the 15-17 50 metres freestyle.

Troake stormed home third in 24.53 seconds in a race which national coach Gareth Davies described as one of the toughest he had seen at the week-long meet.

A day earlier, Stephen Fahy had earned Bermuda their first medal with a silver in the 200 metres individual medley.

Meanwhile, in yesterday's 13-14 1500 metres freestyle, Jimmy Pereira set a new Bermuda record of 18:31.29, and Troake also lowered his own age group record in the 15-17 backstroke with a time of 1:03.43.

Ronald Cowen then broke the boys 15-18 mark in the 200m IM in 2:22.11, knocking over a second off the Bermuda record set by Ian Raynor in 1990.

The boys 15-17 4x200m relay team of Cowen, Matthew Hammond, Trevor Nelson and Troake qualified for the finals in the morning heats and Alicia Mullan also came through her heat in the 18-21 400m freestyle.