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.
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.
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.
By the time of the 1986 Commonwealth Games I’d been to the Olympics and won a European championships medal and this was almost a good practice for the Olympics coming up, but I still waned to do well at these Games themselves.
It was a tremendously exciting week of racing in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games, which generated a fantastic atmosphere in the sparkly new Sandwell Aquatic centre. On this review podcast, Steve and Katie consider events in the pool from the dominance of Ben Proud to the extensive medal winning exploits of Tom Dean and much more.