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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 | Day 3 | Day 4 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4We’re entering the penultimate day of racing at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, the sole qualifying opportunity for the nation’s swimmers to add their names to the roster for this summer’s World Championships.
This competition is also a selection opportunity for the younger set to stake their claim on qualifying for the World and European Junior Swimming Championships, U23 European Swimming Championships and European Youth Olympic Festival.
As in the past, Aquatics GB has set some tough qualification standards, which are outlined in the selection criteria and preview bullets above. Also, as in the past, the British coaching brain trust will reserve ‘discretionary’ selections so there is a chance athletes can still make the team if they miss the QT.
Women’s 100m Fly
Already the 200m fly winner in a Singapore-worthy time, 23-year-old Keanna MacInnes staked her claim on a potential double by taking the top seed in the 100m fly this morning.
Stirling’s MacInnes stopped the clock in 58.16 this morning as one of just two sub-59-second swimmers.
Teammate Lucy Grieve joined her, notching 58.34 while Ciara Schlosshan captured the 3rd seed in 59.10.
Emily Richards (nee Large) was also in the mix via her 4th-seeded 59.20 and the 50m free and 50m fly victor here, Eva Okaro is ranked 5th out of the heats in 59.55. We reported how Okaro just announced her commitment to compete for the University of Texas in the NCAA.
The women will be chasing the Aquatics GB-mandated standard of 57.20 in tonight’s final, a stiff marker which stands faster than the current British national record in this event.
Of the top tier of heats performers, MacInnes has been the swiftest, owning a lifetime best and Scottish national record of 57.90 from the prelims of the event at the 2024 Olympic Games. There in Paris, MacInnes wound up placing 16th in a slower semi-final result of 58.11 as the sole British representative.
Grieve’s personal best rests at the 58.31 logged at this competition last year, so she’ll need to have the swim of her life to drop enough time to take the gold.
Richards’ PB remains at 58.62 from the 2017 World Junior Championships, while Schlosshan posted her quickest result of 58.97 just last month at the British Universities & Colleges Championships (BUCS).
Laura Stephens, the 200m fly runner-up here, is a potential contender, putting up a swim of 59.61. She has been as swift as 57.98 in her career to represent GBR’s 10th-best performer.
Men’s 200m Breast
After the likes of Ross Murdoch, James Wilby and Andrew Willis are no longer in the British men’s 200m breaststroke swimming picture, the nation is in need of someone to step up and start clocking some world-class times.
Great Britain was without representation in this event at last year’s Olympic Games and World Championships.
Greg Butler was the top British performer at the 2023 World Championships, hitting a time of 2:12.52 to finish 23rd overall.
24-year-old Butler was the top seed out of this morning’s heats, posting a time of 2:13.14 to hold a narrow advantage over 17-year-old Filip Nowacki of Millfield. The former owns a PB of 2:10.48 from the 2024 Aquatics GB Championships to rank as the 9th-best GBR performer while the latter has been as quick as 2:12.74 in his young career.
Another 17-year-old, Max Morgan, already claimed 50m breast gold here and turned in a morning swim of 2:16.30, well outside his lifetime best and British Age Record for 16-year-olds of 2:12.24 from last year.
Men’s 50m Free
The surprise runner-up in the men’s 100 free, 17-year-old Jacob Mills, stole the show in the heats of the men’s splash n’ dash.
The Repton ace followed up his enormous 48.03 100m free lifetime best with another impressive performance of 21.96 as the sole sub-22-second performer this morning.
Mills’ career-best entering this competition rested at the 22.38 established just last month at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet. That means the teen hacked .42 off in just a month’s time to land lane 4 for tonight’s main event.
In doing so, Mills crushed the British Age Record for 17-year-olds, obliterating the former mark 22.24 now-Irish swimmer Tom Fannon logged 7 years ago.
Just like that, Mills ranks as the 6th fastest British man in history, tying Olympian Mark Foster. He also now checks in as the 11th-best performer in the world on the season.
Olympic medalist Ben Proud is pre-qualified in this men’s 50m free, courtesy of the bronze medal he earned last year in Paris, his first piece of individual Olympic hardware. He captured the 2nd seed in 22.06 followed closely by fellow Loughborough Olympian Alex Cohoon who touched in 22.22.
The 100m free gold medalist here, Matt Richards, lurks as the 4th seed in 22.24 and is GBR’s #3 performer in history as a result of his PB of 21.83 notched last year.
University of Florida commit Alexander Painter (22.28) and two-time Olympian Jacob Whittle (22.53) are also among the contenders. However, GBR’s #2 best-ever, Lewis Burras, fell to 10th and out of the A-final
Women’s 200m IM
Two-time Olympian Abbie Wood already threw down a massive 400m IM PB to take that event and qualify for the World Championships. But the Loughborough star is back for more in this 2IM, claiming the top seed in 2:12.53.
She holds a near-second advantage over the next-closest competitor, Katie Shanahan, the women’s 100m back victor, who touched in 2:13.49.
Leah Schlosshan rounded out the top 3 performances in 2:15.25.
The QT sits at 2:10.62, a barrier under which Wood (2:08.91) and Shanahan (2:09.40) both have been.
Schlosshan has been on the cusp, owning a career-swiftest outing of 2:11.65 from last year’s Aquatics GB Championships. She finished 4th in this event at the European Championships also last year.
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