Theodora Taylor will make her senior international debut this summer and will take on a big racing schedule to do so, as she finishes her junior career at European Juniors before heading to the Commonwealth Games and European Championships. It’s the kind of workload she’s become accustomed to however, even if she realises that it can’t go on forever. For now though she is making the most of all the racing opportunities coming her way.
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After two challenging years, Jacob Peters returned to form at the British Championships, securing European qualification and putting himself back among Britain’s top butterfly swimmers.
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Earlier this year, as they have done for several years, the team at SwimSwam put their heads together to compile their annual Top 100 rankings of male and female swimmers. With the element of subjectivity firmly in mind, it remains an interesting exercise to revisit the lists through a British lens, considering how the GB cohort is viewed from the outside and what it says about the current state of British swimming as we head into the defining months of 2026.
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It wasn’t quite all everyone was talking about at the British Championships, but the announcement that 50m form events would be added to the programme for the 2028 Olympics was certainly on the mind of many of Britain’s top swimmers. Indeed, it even seems to have had an immediate impact on Aquatics GB who referenced it in their rationale for discretionary selection for this years World Championships even though for understandable reasons it was not part of the original selection policy. Here’s what some winners at the British Championships thought of the change.
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If you’re the reigning world champion and have just finished fourth in the Olympics, a finger tip away from the podium then it might be expected that you’d be back chasing success in that event the following season. But for Freya Colbert a change is as good as a rest in 2025, even if the 400IM remains on her programme for the World Championships.
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