Luke Greenbank has picked up his second World Cup bronze medal in the space of a week.

The Cockermouth Swimming Club star already had a bronze medal to his name after he beat Olympic, world and Commonwealth gold medalist Chad Le Clos in Doha to claim third place in the 200 metre backstroke final in Doha last week.

And in the next World Cup series event in Dubai, the 18-year-old, from Great Broughton, repeated the trick.

He made sure of his qualification for the final in style, finishing the heats as the fourth fastest swimmer, beating Le Clos once more to qualify along with the likes of Mitchell Larkin, Masaki Kaneko and Roman Dmytrijev.

His time of 2:01.41 minutes in the heat placed him fourth out of a 25-strong field.

And in the final, Greenbank surged into medal contention, and was just under a second shy of catching Kaneko in second place at the 100-metre mark.

In the end, the teenager was able to claim third place, beating Le Clos – who famously beat the world’s most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps, at the London 2012 Olympic Games – along with eight-time Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Quah Zheng Wen.

The final was won by double world champion Larkin, but Greenbank’s bronze-winning time of 1:58.68 minutes was over a second quicker than Le Clos’, who came fifth, and it continued his promising form in his nascent senior career to date.

Prior to that, he had narrowly missed out on qualification for the finals of both the men’s 50 metres backstroke and the 100 metres backstroke.

Greenbank, who along with fellow Cockermouth star Edward Baxter has been named in British Swimming’s podium potential performance squad, will now remain in Dubai for the next week as he attends a training camp alongside world record-holding European, world and Commonwealth champion Adam Peaty and his coach, Mel Marshall – herself a distinguished former international swimmer.