Ross Murdoch notched up a Scottish record as he struck silver in the 100m breaststroke at the European Swimming Champion-ships in Berlin.

Murdoch lost out to Team GB mate Adam Peaty but is favourite for gold in the 200m breaststroke today.

Peaty - who also won gold in the same event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow - touched home in 58.96 seconds with Murdoch settling for silver just 0.47 seconds behind.

Earlier, Chris Walker-Hebborn staged a late surge to win 100m backstroke gold for Great Britain.

The 24-year-old overhauled 2011 world champion Jeremy Stravius and Germany's Jan-Philip Glania in the final metres to claim victory in a time of 53.32 seconds.

His win capped a glorious month for the University of Bath athlete who had also won 100m backstroke gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

There was a silver medal for Lizzie Simmonds in the women's 200m backstroke and bronze for Fran Halsall in the 50m butterfly.

Ben Proud also picked up a bronze medal in the men's 50m butterfly after dramatically dead-heating for third place with Andriy Govorov of Ukraine, with both swimmers recording an identical time of 23.31 seconds.

The success did not stop for Britain as the 4x100m mixed medley team broke the world record to claim a third gold medal in the final race of the evening.

The team of Walker-Hebborn, Peaty, Jemma Lowe and Halsall came home in 3:44.02 to break the previous record set by Australia in January by 2.5secs. Holland were 1.91secs behind in claiming silver with Russia taking bronze.

Earlier in the evening, Adam Barrett finished seventh in the men's 50m butterfly while Roberto Pavoni qualified for Wednesday's 200m medley final.