In this episode, Steve, Bob and Katie look forward to the 2025 World Swimming Championships in Singapore, and run the rule over the British team’s prospects, including great podium chances for Angharad Evans, Ollie Morgan, Duncan Scott, Ben Proud and more.
World Aquatics today loaded individual event entries on to the World Championships site and gave us a first look at what the British team will be swimming in Singapore.
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.
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.
Following the conclusion of the Aquatics GB Championships last weekend, Aquatics GB have now confirmed a team of 28 who will compete at the World Championships in Singapore in the summer, with six discretionary picks added to the 22 who were selected directly.