2481 days. That was how long it had been since his last competitive 400m freestyle when James Guy stepped on the block at the City of Sheffield Winter meet to race the event again. It was a bit lower key than the previous swim which had seen a Commonwealth Bronze medal on the Gold Coast, but it marked the start of a return to the event for the man who remains the British Record holder and who will now take the blocks for 8 lengths of the London Aquatic centre at the forthcoming British Championships.
With just a few weeks until action kicks off at the London Aquatic Centre, Aquatics GB have confirmed that all entries for the British Championships were accepted and released the first draft of the programme, with a few swims of note included.
Aquatics GB has confirmed their funding lists for 2025 with 57 swimmers allocated spots across the two tiers of support. This announcement has come later than usual, perhaps reflecting the change in head coach to Steven Tigg late in 2024 and the need to give him time to get across the programmes, but his influence is hard to discern, with the selections carrying a great deal of consistency with previous years at the top level, and no greater turnover at the lower tier.
Aquatics GB has named a team of 10 pool swimmers along with a full complement of the Olympic marathon swimming team who will all contest this year’s European Championships in Belgrade in June.
The British swimming squad for the Paris Olympics was confirmed today as TeamGB revealed the thirty pool swimmers selected off the back of the recent trials held in London.
The team is headlined by the likes of Freya Colbert, Duncan Scott and Anna Hopkin with Adam Peaty back in the … Continue Reading→