Jack Harvey is in contention for a medal tonight after he qualified as the third fastest in the men’s 100 metres backstroke at the Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay.

Harvey, swimming in lane four, touched the pad in 55.74sec to win heat one. Humberto Najera, from Mexico, and Maximilian Wilson, of the US Virgin Islands, the other heat winners, were the only ones with a better time than the Bermudian, with the two clocking 55.41.

The three swimmers will be favourites to secure spots on the podium when the final takes place at 19.04.

Marleigh Howes, Bermuda’s only female swimmer at the Games, clocked 1min 0.32sec, to finish seventh in heat four of the women’s 100 freestyle.

In the men’s 200 breaststroke, Sam Williamson stopped the clock at 2:28.61, to settle for sixth in heat one. Elijah Daley’s time of 2:28.85 saw him finish seventh in heat two.