What a year. From a first long course world championships to be held in an Olympic year, via a hugely successful and hotly contested British Championships, an earth shattering Olympic Games in Paris and a final sign off at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest, there was a huge amount of high quality British swimming on show in 2024. Every meet delivered medals and eleven new British Records were inked into the books, but now, for the 25th time, comes the moment to name the pullbuoy swimmers of the year for 2024.
This week sees the beginning of a new era for British swimming, just as the national team heads back to a venue steeped in a recent history of success. The new: the start of Steven Tigg's tenure as national head coach; the familiar: racing in Budapest's Duna arena which has seen numerous British … Continue Reading→
Nine epic days of competition in the La Défense Arena and two more in the Seine are done and dusted as the 2024 Olympic swimming programme comes to a close.
For this podcast episode Steve and Katie are joined by triple-Olympian Hannah Miley to look back at the British showing in Paris, one that brought with it 5 medals including a successful defence of the men’s 4×200 freestyle relay, and to pick up some of the major talking points, personalities and performances of the meet.
Events in Paris are upon us, with British swimmers contesting 32 individual events and all seven relays over the nine days of swimming competition in the La Défense arena. That lengthened programme has British interest every day from the point Keanna MacInnes takes to the pool in the 100m butterfly heats on the first morning to the time that the men’s medley relay touch the wall in the last final of the meet. Here’s a day by day preview and a full schedule of when GB’s swimmers are in action.
