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.
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For several years the writers at SwimSwam have put their heads together and set about picking their top 100 male and female swimmers for the year ahead based both on performance historically and potential looking forward. It remains interesting to review the lists with a GB focus and to see what those looking in from outside make of the British swimming scene, so here’s a look at this year’s outcomes.
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The second podcast of 2025 brings us our second guest as Steve and Katie are joined by pullbuoy’s male swimmer of the year for 2024 Duncan Scott to review a year that saw him add two further Olympic medals to his haul as well as three new British Records in the short course pool.
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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.
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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.
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