Kaye returned home from last month's event at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre with four medals including three gold and a silver.

She collected two of those medals in individual events and two in relay events.

Competing in the 65-69 years age division, Kay collected a gold medal in the 50 metres freestyle and set a new national record of 33.03 seconds in the process.

Kaye had held the previous record of 33.04 for two years.

She also picked up a silver medal in the 100 metres freestyle in the time of 1.18.94 before teaming up with some friends to win gold in the 4x50 metres medley relay (240 years plus) in a time of 2.27.34 and in the 4x50 metre freestyle relay in a time of 2.07.90.

Kaye was a very successful swimmer in her younger years, at one stage representing Australian Universities on a tour of New Zealand.

She later went on to become a physical education teacher and found she was "too busy" for swimming, leaving the pool for 35 years before moving to Ulladulla in the early 1990s and discovering the Ulladulla Leisure Centre.

Kaye has now been involved in Maters swimming for a number of years and collected a silver medal in the 50 metres freestyle at the FINA World Masters in San Francisco in 2006.

Last year she was ranked the fastest swimmer in Australia in her age group in the 50 metres freestyle and 50 metres butterfly, second fastest in the 100 metres and fifth fastest in the 200 metres freestyle.

She was also named in the FINA Masters' world top 10 in the 50 metres and 100 metres longcourse freestyle, the 50 metres shortcourse freestyle and a number of relay events.

Kaye said she had been training for nine months in preparation for the World Masters with pool sessions complemented by weight sessions three times a week and body balance classes, also at the Leisure Centre.