2025 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEET
We noticed day two of the 2025 Edinburgh Worldwide Swim Meet unfold, with the competitors representing an in-season racing alternative forward of the all-important Aquatics GB Championships. That meet subsequent month represents the only qualifying meet for this summer time’s World Championships in Singapore.
On the heels of his day one victory within the 100m again, Oliver Morgan delivered one other spectacular efficiency to take the 50m again dash.
22-year-old Morgan of Birmingham turned in a time of 24.83, a consequence simply .06 exterior the mark of 24.77 he logged finally month’s BUCS Championships to rank third on this planet on the season.
Morgan was the only contestant to register a sub-25-second efficiency right here, with Bathtub’s Matthew Ward and Tomer Shuster of Israel grabbing the minor medals. The previous hit 25.15 and the latter clocked 25.23.
Three-time Olympian Max Litchfield was additionally within the water, taking over his signature 400m IM occasion.
30-year-old Litchfield scored a stable in-season swim of 4:16.15 but it surely was a good combat with College of Florida commit Charlie Hutchison.
Hutchison touched simply over half a second behind after the pair had been at one another’s hips all the race. Hutchison posted 4:16.76 as the one different swimmer to delve underneath the 4:20 barrier. Jakub Bursa rounded out the rostrum in 4:22.78.
Whereas Litchfield owns the British nationwide document together with his lifetime better of 4:08.85 from the 2024 Olympic Video games, Hutchison’s time right here was inside vary of his PB of 4:14.90 from final 12 months’s Sette Colli Trophy.
The boys’s 50m free subject was stacked, led by Olympic medalist Ben Proud.
31-year-old Proud busted out a season-best 21.73 as the only sub-22-second performer.
Eire’s Tom Fannon was subsequent to the wall in 22.05 whereas Norway’s Bjørnar Grytnes Laskerud captured bronze in 22.29, a brand new lifetime finest.
There have been a number of different top-tier swimmers among the many pack, with Israeli Meiron Cheruti hitting 22.31 for 4th, Renzo Tjon-A-Joe (NED) registering 22.43 for Fifth, and 200m free Olympic silver medalist Matt Richards producing 22.58 for sixth. Nyls Korstanje (NED) tied Richards for that place.
Proud’s 21.73 effort now checks him into slot #3 among the many world’s finest performers this season.
The 50m breast contest was one of many highlights on the ladies’s aspect, with the highest 4 performers separated by simply .22.
Belgian nationwide document holder Florine Gaspard led the best way posting 30.77 to get to the wall first.
Final night time’s 100m breast victor, Angharad Evans of Scotland, put up a stable swim of 30.94 to simply out-touch Anna Morgan of Edinburgh who captured bronze in 30.96. Teammate Kara Hanlon was additionally within the combine together with her 4th place mark of 30.99,
Gaspard, who owns a PB of 30.53 from 2 years in the past, now ranks 4th on this planet.
Eire’s massive gun Ellen Walshe took on a troublesome double of the 400m IM and 100m fly, putting gold in each races.
Walshe registered a successful effort of 4:41.14 within the 4IM to beat the sphere by over 8 seconds. That’s a brand new season-best and inserts her into the world rankings because the Fifth-fastest lady.
24-year-old Walshe’s time of 58.26 within the 1fly set her other than the sphere by over half a second. The following-closest swimmer was Stirling’s Lucy Grieve who produced 58.98, simply .01 forward of Ciara Chlosshan‘s mark of 58.99.
Extra Winners
Olympic medalist Daniel Wiffen clocked a time of seven:56.90 to win the boys’s 800m free. His season-best stays on the 7:52.52 put up finally month’s BUCS Championshps.
Versatile Olympian Duncan Scott turned in a time of 1:58.53 to prime the boys’s 200m fly podium. That beat Manchester’s Edward Mildred (1:59.05) and 4x200m free relay teammate James Man (1:59.19).
The boys’s 100m breast noticed Loughborough’s Greg Butler log 1:01.16 to win by almost a second.
Lauren Cox was too fast to catch within the girls’s 50m again, together with her effort of 27.67 holding off runner-up Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium and Maaike De Waard of the Netherlands. The previous reached the wall in 27.98 and the latter logged 28.05. Cox’s time of 27.60 from BUCS already rendered her #2 on this planet this season.
The ladies’s 800m free was Leah Crisp get the job executed in a time of 8:39.25, a brand new private finest.
World champion within the 400m IM, Freya Colbert stepped it up within the 200m free to safe the victory. Colbert put up a gold medal-worthy 1:57.82 (57.50/1:00.32). Abbie Wooden earned silver in 1:58.03 and fellow Olympian Freya Anderson rounded out the rostrum in 1:58.87. Colbert’s outing was sufficient to make her the Fifth-swiftest swimmer worldwide on the season.
