2025 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEET
The 2025 Edinburgh Worldwide Swim Meet kicked off in the present day with the 3-day competitors representing an in-season racing alternative forward of the all-important Aquatics GB Championships. That meet subsequent month represents the only real qualifying meet for this summer season’s World Championships in Singapore.
Proper off the bat, 22-year-old Oliver Morgan of Birmingham blasted a profitable time of 52.97 to take the boys’s 100m backstroke.
Splitting 25.69/27.27, Morgan beat the sector by over a second, with Matthew Ward snagging silver in 54.63 adopted by Irishman John Shortt who bagged bronze in 55.22. Of notice, Olympic medalist Luke Greenbank was additionally among the many opponents, ending fifth in a time of 55.22.
As for Morgan, the rising ace owns a lifetime better of 52.70, the present British document he established ultimately 12 months’s Olympic Trials. Which means tonight’s efficiency got here inside .27 of that mark, with the World Trials but to return.
He already owns the #1 time on this planet this season, courtesy of the 52.71 put up at February’s BUCS Championships.
The lads’s 200m free was additionally a marquis occasion on night time one, with Olympians Matt Richards, James Man and Jack McMillan comprising the rostrum.
Richards, Paris silver medalist within the occasion, posted a gold medal-worthy results of 1:47.19 to get the slim edge over Man who settled for silver in 1:47.26. McMillan rounded out the trio in 1:47.39 within the tight battle.
Search for these males, together with Duncan Scott and Tom Dean, to be among the many high performers in London subsequent month.
On the ladies’s facet, we reported how the highest 3 performers wreaked havoc on the world rankings, led by Dutch swimmer Milou van Wijk.
20-year-old van Wijk clocked a profitable effort of 24.48 to seize the gold, hacking .22 off her earlier best-ever efficiency of 24.70 notched simply final month on the Flanders Swimming Cup.
Runner-up standing went to Belgium’s Florine Gaspard who established a brand new nationwide document of 24.53 en path to silver. Then, reigning SCM World Junior Document holder Eva Okaro of Nice Britain nabbed a brand new PB of 24.80 as she claimed bronze.
Further members included Marrit Steenbergen who clocked 24.95 for 4th place adopted by Belgian Roos Vanotterdijk who touched in 25.23 for fifth. Olympian Freya Anderson settled for seventh in 25.63.
Angharad Evans was one other head-turning performer on the ladies’s facet, throwing down a powerful in-season time of 1:06.38 within the 100m breast.
Evans opened in 31.49 and closed in 34.89 to show within the Ninth-fastest time of her rising profession. Evans owns the British nationwide document on this occasion with the 1:05.54 registered ultimately 12 months’s AP Race Worldwide.
Scottish swimmer Kara Hanlon was subsequent to the wall in 1:07.10 whereas Anna Morgan, additionally of Scotland, secured bronze in 1:07.36.
Further Winners
Israel’s Meiron Cheruti topped the boys’s 50m fly area in 23.34. That eked out the victory forward of Dutchman Nyls Korstanje who touched in 23.37 adopted by Olympic medalist Ben Proud who captured bronze in 23.49. France’s Clement Secchi was 4th in 23.77 and Jacob Peters earned fifth in 23.86.
The ladies’s 100m again noticed Vanotterdijk get it achieved for gold in 59.77, one among simply two performances underneath the minute barrier. Lauren Cox logged 59.95 for silver with Katie Shanahan rounding out the rostrum in 1:00.70. Olympians Freya Colbert and Abbie Wooden have been additionally within the pack, with the previous hitting 1:01.00 for fifth and the latter delivering 1:02.06 for seventh.
Olympian Laura Stephens was too fast to catch within the girls’s 200m fly, posting 2:09.15 for the gold. That narrowly defeated Keanna MacInnes‘ time of two:09.17 whereas Emily Richards (nee Giant) hit the one different sub-2:11 time of two:09.66.
Leah Crisp struck gold within the girls’s 400m free in 4:13.78, beating the sector by almost 3 seconds.
Noah De Schryver snagged the highest prize within the males’s 200m breast in 2:12.97.
Olympic medalist Scott casually cruised to a profitable results of 1:58.97 within the males’s 200m IM. Max Litchfield, Olympic finalist within the 400m IM, earned silver in 2:01.17 with College of Florida commit Charlie Hutchison proper behind in 2:01.54 for bronze.
