The British Championships is the meet from which the team headed to Fukuoka and the World Championships of 2023 will be selected. Here’s the running tally of who makes the grade.

The 2023 British Championships, which also serve as trials for the world championships, will undoubtedly bring us thrills and spills, and in all likelihood a fair bit of disappointment and drama as events unfold in the Ponds Forge pool. Here are six threads to follow in Sheffield.

It’s not a summer with the unexpected excitement of a last-minute world championships shoehorned in before two more international meets, but after the whirlwind of 2022, there’s still the small matter of an actual, planned for, world championships for swimmers to target as we approach the British Championships at Ponds Forge.