While there is a lot riding on Commonwealth Games selection at the Aquatics GB championships in London this week, there is still the small matter of picking the team for the European Championships in Paris which will follow hard on Glasgow’s heels. 40 spots are up for grabs in London and this his how they will be allocated.
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With a home Games in Glasgow, selection for Team Scotland carries extra weight, as swimmers chase the chance to represent their country in front of a home crowd. This year Scotland have gone with a streamlined two step process that focusses on just the one selection opportunity at the Aquatics GB championships. Here’s how that unfolds.
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Wales has had some notable success in Commonwealth waters in recent years and with a view to continuing that in Glasgow has put together a tight, performance-driven selection process. As in 2022, there is no preselection and this isn’t about a single trials meet. Instead, it’s a qualification window combined with discretionary selection. So here’s how Welsh swimmers make the team.
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With the 2026 Commonwealth Games heading to Glasgow, Swim England has laid out a familiar multi-step selection process which provides the basis for building the team that will head north of the border in the summer. Here’s how the English team will take shape.
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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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