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.
After the manic to and fro of last year, 2023 was a return to normality in the swimming calendar, with a summer world championships the sole focus. That championships also served as a reminder that Britain has become rather good at winning medals at global meets, but as is now tradition, we must pick the best of the bunch, so in the 24th annual edition, here are the pullbuoy swimmers of the year for 2023.
2022 was the strangest of swimming years. Never before had we seen a world championships off and then almost immediately on again, let alone in a year that already boasted a Commonwealth Games and European Championships. It all led to a cluttered calendar but one with opportunity abounding for Britain’s swimmers. From that surfeit of international competition it’s no easy task to pick the cream of the crop, but here are the pullbuoy swimmers of the year for 2022.
Despite all the uncertainty as we headed into the new year just 12 months ago, 2021 turned out to be chock full of international swimming, and with it some exceptional British swimming performances. Choosing the cream of the crop from a year that saw record breaking performances at the Olympics and European Championships and a swathe of new British records is not easy, but here’s our picks for 2021 swimmers of the year.
Against the backdrop of a pandemic interrupted 12 months, our swimmers of the year have an inevitable sense of deja-vu, as well as a shorter format that usual and an unmistakeable ISL flavour, but here are the pick of the GB crop for 2020.
