We are back and in this first episode of the podcast for 2025, Steve and Katie chat with pullbuoy’s 2024 Female Swimmer of the Year Angharad Evans about her journey to the Paris Olympics and her ambitions for the 2025 season.
Listen →
All posts by Pullbuoy Steve
Advertisement
Pullbuoy Swimmers of the Year 2024
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.
Continue Reading →
GB Team set for splash and dash in Budapest
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→
GB’s Paris Performance in Numbers
With the Olympics done and dusted for another four years, these are some of the key numbers that describe the British performance in Paris.
96 - the number of British swimmers to win an Olympic medal after Paris. Or is it 97? before the games started w speculated on who … Continue Reading→
Podcast: 2024 Olympic Swimming Review
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.
Listen →