2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap ...Middle East

By Mark Wild on SwimSwam

2025 AQUATICS GB SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Tuesday, April 15th – Sunday, April 20th Prelims at 9:30am local (4:30am ET)/Finals at 7pm local (2pm ET) London Aquatics Centre LCM (50m) Meet Central Aquatics GB World Championships Selection Criteria SwimSwam Preview Draft Entries Live Results Livestream Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1|Day 2 Finals: Day 1

Ok. So maybe the re-emergence of “Chunnel” as a term didn’t take off with our my coverage of the Aquatics GB Olympic Trials last year. And while QI might have taught me that a tunnel from London to Singapore would only take 42 minutes to travel, we haven’t yet developed said technology (or the tunnel for that matter) so there will be no subliminal messages this go around. That said, if someone can try to bring back the Worcester Sauce Twiglets, we all will be in your debt.

However, we are not hear to discuss our favorite discontinued snack and terms, but rather the second day of competition at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships. Much like last year’s qualification meet, this meet wears many caps, nominating swimmers to the World Championships, Para-World Championships, as well as the European Aquatics U23 Meet, and both the European and World Junior Championships.

The competition this evening kicks off with the 50 breaststroke, where Max Morgan, the runner-up last night in the 100 breaststroke, will look to top the podium. Morgan, the British Junior Record Holder, was just .12 off that time this morning, but will have to ensure that he gets to the wall first, as Archie Goodburn is just .11 back.

From the shortest event of the evening, we move onto the longest event as the 1500 freestyle concludes with its fastest heat. Emma Price posted the fastest time in the early heats going 17:07.91, but all eyes will be on Amelie Blocksidge, who just turned 16 last week. Blocksidge is entered with a time of 16:10.04, seven seconds clear of Fleur Lewis, the exact order they finished in last year at Trials. Each will have their work cut out for them as they will be chasing the stiff consideration time of 16:02.39.

Ed Mildred will take center stage in the men’s 200 fly tonight. The 22-year-old posted a new personal best this morning of 1:57.02, a drop of nearly a full second. The Manchester-based swimmer, may be looking to add a new event to his repertoire, as while he did medal in the event at the 2019 European Youth Olympics, Mildred has found more success in the sprints, winning the 100 free at the 2023 European U23 Championships, as well as collecting two medals in the 4×100 free relays at the 2022 Rome European Championships.

While Mildred leads the field by nearly two full seconds, Henry IV’s “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” has never more aptly fit as there is a trio of swimmers behind him hungry for the podium. Joshua Gammon, last year’s champion, sits 3rd this morning right in between Olympic Gold medalists, Duncan Scott and James Guy. The pair, the 2nd and 4th seeds, will be next to one another in tonight’s final, occupying lanes 5 and 6 respectively. While competition to finish first will be fierce, the stiff 1:54.97 qualifying time will be a hard ask as only swimmers have ever been under the mark, are the National Record holder Michael Rock (1:54.58) and Guy in 2022 (1:54.91).

The men’s 200 fly qualifying time may be a Herculean task, but the women’s and men’s 400 IM sees at least two swimmers likely to qualify. Top seeds Freya Colbert and Max Litchfield swam smooth 4:44.79 and 4:17.33 this morning, but likely have much more in the tank. Colbert, who nearly rewrote the 200 free national record last night, is the reigning World Champion and placed 4th at the Olympics last summer. Litchfield, who won silver in this event in Doha, his first World’s medal, at the age of 28, like Colbert, placed 4th last summer at the Olympics, and like Colbert was within a second of the podium. The pair obviously have time to drop to reach the qualifying standard, but based on their performances last year, that feat should be well within their range of abilities.

The session concludes with the women’s 100 backstroke. European and British national record holder Kathleen Dawson made the final tonight, albeit in 5th place, and will have to move past several of her younger compatriots if she wants to book her flight to Singapore. Dawson, who won last year in 59.74, will have to fight an even tougher standard, as it has been set to an even faster time, going from 59.89 to 59.46. Fellow Scot Katie Shanahan has opted not to swim the 400 IM, an event where she placed 2nd last year, and instead has targeted the 100 backstroke and is your top seed tonight, having gone 1:00.66 this morning, the only swimmer under 1:01. Her time stands as a new personal best, bettering her previous best of 1:00.70, but the time is still a far cry away from Dawson’s 58.08 and #2 seed Lauren Cox‘s best of 59.60.

Men’s 50-Meter Breaststroke

Junior Final

British Record: 25.95 — Adam Peaty (2017) British Junior Record: 27.52 – Max Morgan (2024)

Top 3:

Multi-Class Para Final

SB3 World Record: 46.49 – Roman Zhdanov, RPC (2021) SB3 British Record: 57.94 – Lyndon Longhorne (2016)

Top 3:

British Open Final

World Record: 25.95 — Adam Peaty (2017) European Record: 25.95 — Adam Peaty (2017) British Record: 25.95 — Adam Peaty (2017) 2025 Worlds Consideration Time: —

Top 3:

Women’s 1500-Meter Freestyle

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