Evans Blasts Off in London- Day 6 Selection Update

Angharad Evans smashed her second British Record of the week as she crashed through the 1:05 barrier with an exceptional 100m breaststroke swim.

Hers was the highlight but the men’s 4×200 lived up to its billing once again, delivering a race of huge drama to close the meet, with Matt Richards just taking the bragging rights.

All of that went together with some fast racing that saw more names added to the Paris roster. A full GB selection update follows below.

Note this is only our interpretation of how the policies will be applied and final selections need to be confirmed by the relevant selectors in due course.

Britain

Evans’ remarkable swim took the headlines with her 1:04.96, miles under the required standard for Paris.

She was joined by Josh Gammon and Jacob Peters over 50m butterfly, while in the women’s 50 free Eva Okaro and Theodora Taylor made the grade, the latter adding an individual event for Paris.

The same could be said for Luke Greenbank who made the QT in the 200m backstroke but narrowly failed to prevent an 11th British title in a row for Ollie Morgan.

The now customary closing fireworks in the men’s 200 freestyle gave us two Paris qualifiers in Matt Richards and James Guy, while combined with Duncan Scott and Jack McMillan they will make up the relay. It seems quite likely all four may get to swim the individual, while Gabriel Shepherd, hugely impressive 5th in 1:46.39 seems likely to get a relay alternate berth.

England

A selection update will follow

Scotland

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Wales

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