2025 AQUATICS GB SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The ultimate day of the 2025 Aquatics GB Championships is underway, with the morning prelims now full. 5 occasions had been featured on this session: the boys’s 50m butterfly, males’s 200m backstroke, ladies’s 100m breaststroke, ladies’s 100m freestyle, and males’s 200m freestyle.
As a reminder, this meet is the one choice alternative for British swimmers aiming to qualify for the World Championships this July in Singapore. To earn a spot on the World Championships in Singapore (27 July – 3 August), a swimmer should win their occasion and meet the qualifying time required. Those that place 2nd and in addition obtain the usual could also be thought of for choice, with the ultimate group capped at 30 athletes.
Within the males’s 50 fly, Bathtub’s Jacob Peters secured the highest seed for tonight’s closing with a time of 23.27. The 24-year-old holds a lifetime finest of twenty-two.84 from the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, the place he narrowly missed the rostrum, ending 4th—simply 0.02 seconds outdoors of bronze.
Ben Proud, who positioned fifth in that very same 2023 closing, superior in fifth place this morning with a 23.89. He stays the British file holder, because of his 22.75 from the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, the place he claimed gold.
Since 2017, Proud has largely targeting the 50 free, through which he owns a private better of 21.11. Nonetheless, now that the 50 fly is an Olympic occasion, there’s a powerful likelihood we’ll see him reignite his concentrate on the stroke within the coming seasons. He captured the 50 free title right here on Saturday in 21.67—regardless of racing unshaven—and in addition captured silver on the current Paris Olympics.
One other swimmer to observe in tonight’s closing is Plymouth’s Jack Brown. The 17-year-old rising star posted a time of 23.95 to qualify sixth general.
The highest 4 finishers within the males’s 200 again prelims dipped below the two-minute mark, with Olympic medalist Luke Greenbank main the best way. The 27-year-old, who earned bronze on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and owns a lifetime better of 1:54.43, touched in 1:57.92 this morning—main the sphere by over a second.
Birmingham College’s Oliver Morgan, who owns a PB of 1:56.27, can be aiming to finish a sweep of the backstroke occasions with a win within the 200. He clocked 1:59.33 to qualify because the joint 2nd seed. Earlier within the meet, he broke the British file within the 100 again with a 52.12, a time that ranks him #2 on the planet this yr behind Russian Olympic medalist Kliment Kolesnikov. Morgan additionally received the 50 again this week with a personal-best 24.43.
Additionally qualifying 2nd was Florida Gator Jonny Marshall, who represented Nice Britain within the 100 again on the Paris Olympics final summer time, ending 14th. He narrowly missed the qualifying normal in that occasion earlier this week by simply 0.01.
Swimmers might want to hit 1:57.28 or quicker in tonight’s closing to fulfill the qualifying normal.
After clocking the quickest time of the morning by over two seconds, Stirling’s Angharad Evans would be the one to observe within the ladies’s 100 breast closing. She touched in 1:06.22—the sixth-fastest 100 breast ever by a British girl—to steer the sphere forward of Edinburgh’s Kara Hanlon, who certified 2nd in 1:08.38.
Evans has already booked her ticket to Singapore, because of a world-leading 2:21.86 within the 200 breast earlier within the meet—a mark that was lately surpassed by world file holder Evgeniia Chikunova, who went 2:20.36 a day later to steal the worldwide lead.
Evans dropped nearly a full second from her earlier PB within the 200, so control her 1:05.54 British file in tonight’s 100 closing, in addition to the world-leading time of 1:05.82 from Italy’s Anita Bottazzo.
As for Hanlon, her 2023 better of 1:06.36 is simply shy of the qualifying normal of 1:06.31. If she will shave off a couple of hundredths, she has an actual shot at becoming a member of Evans on the Worlds roster. Hanlon was barely off her private finest within the 50 breast, the place she received gold, however did drop half a second to earn silver within the 200.
The ladies’s 100 free prelims featured a bounce-back efficiency from Freya Anderson, who led all qualifiers with a time of 54.37 after lacking the ‘A’ closing within the 200 free earlier this week. She’ll be carefully challenged in tonight’s closing by rising star Eva Okaro, who superior 2nd in 54.95—making her the one different swimmer below the 55-second barrier this morning.
Okaro has already had a standout meet, successful each the 50 free and 50 fly, together with a bronze within the 100 fly. She’ll be chasing the 54-second barrier tonight, having set a private better of 54.43 simply final month. Okaro has already secured her place for Singapore with a 24.43 qualifying time within the 50 free.
The qualifying normal within the ladies’s 100 free is 53.55, and Anderson is the one swimmer within the closing who has beforehand gone below that mark, with a private better of 53.31.
Within the males’s 200 free prelims, 2015 World Champion James Man led the sphere with the one sub-1:47 swim, clocking 1:46.85. The 29-year-old has contested two occasions at this competitors already, successful the 400 free and incomes bronze within the 200 fly. He confirmed significantly sturdy opening pace within the 400 free, hitting the midway flip in 1:49.16, which bodes properly for this shorter occasion.
Man is already pre-qualified for Worlds within the 4×200 free relay following Nice Britain’s gold-medal efficiency in Paris final summer time. He owns a private better of 1:45.04 on this occasion from his relay lead-off leg at these Video games.
Matt Richards, who can be pre-qualified for each the relay and this particular person occasion because of his silver medal in Paris, swam 1:48.12 to qualify sixth this morning. Earlier within the week, he claimed the 100 free title with a season-best 47.92 on day three.
With Richards’ pre-qualification, that simply leaves one opening for the ultimate particular person spot, and Duncan Scott appears to be like well-positioned to take it. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist on this occasion touched in 1:47.31 to qualify 2nd this morning. He has regarded sharp all week, dominating the 200 fly (1:54.89) and 200 IM (1:56.41), and is a powerful contender to problem the 1:45 barrier—and even dip beneath it—in tonight’s closing. His lifetime finest stands at 1:44.26.
Scott and Man are the clear front-runners, on paper, so as to add the person occasion to their schedules for Singapore.
Additionally price watching are Jack McMillan and Alexander Painter, who sit in seventh and eighth, respectively.
Painter, particularly, is coming off his freshman season on the College of Florida and is understood to rise to the event in finals. He almost earned a Worlds spot on the 4×100 free relay earlier within the meet, ending fifth with a 48.47—simply 0.02 behind Jacob Whittle’s 48.45 for 4th.
McMillan is an Olympic gold medalist for his prelims contribution to the 4×200 relay in Paris.
As a reminder, 2020 Olympic champion Tom Dean is forgoing the 200 free at this meet. He’s already on the Singapore roster for the 4×200 relay, similar to Man and Scott. Dean has already swum the 100 free at this meet, inserting third with a time of 48.40.
