It was a fast and furious week at the British Swimming Championships, with 6 British Records and 29 swimmers selected for the world championships in Budapest. Plenty then to discuss as Bob, Katie and Steve look back over the events in Sheffield, with contributions from Ian Hulme, coach to Jocelyn Ulyett, Sarah Vasey, James Guy and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor.
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The British Swimming Championships are underway in Sheffield, a meet that will determine who makes the cut for the World Championships in Budapest later this year (along with a host of other competitions of course). As in previous years we’ll be keeping tabs of how the team is shaping up based on the results and the GB selection policy
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Trials season is well and truly upon us with teams being picked in Canada, Australia, China and around Europe over the past fortnight. Britain is the next major swimming nation to enter the fray with world championship trials taking place in Sheffield next week. In this short preview podcast, Katie and Steve run the rule over what promises to be some intriguing swimming at Ponds Forge.
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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. So said Benjamin Franklin in an oft quoted line. Well for Britain’s swimmers, right now they could probably add “tough qualifying times” to the grim reaper and the taxman given the way selection for major championships has gone in the Spice-Furniss era, and there’s no change for 2017.
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We are only 3 months into 2017 with trials for the major event of the year, the world championships in Budapest looming close on the horizon, but Aimee Willmott already has one eye trained further ahead to 2018 and the commonwealth Games to be held on the Gold coast in Australia. The London based swimmer, sponsored by Funkita, has been picked as one of the inaugural cohort of Team England athlete ambassadors and in that role, will be inputting to the preparation and planning for the trip down under next March.
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