2024 Swimming GB Swimming Championships (Olympic Trials)
After a thrilling night of racing, max litchfield There was more competition across the board in this morning's heats, with the men's 400m IM record broken and three athletes breaking the 48 second barrier in the 100m free.
james guy and jacob peters He attracted attention in the first event of the men's 100m butterfly.
The former holds the British national record with a lifetime best of 50.67 in 2017, while the latter achieved second place in the GBR with a personal best of 51.16 last year. This score of 51.16 gave Peters the gold medal at the 2023 British Championships, beating Guy's score of 51.63.
It was the 23-year-old Peters who wasted no time in today's qualifying to stake his chances for the title, smashing a score of 51.56 to advance to lane 4 for tonight's main event.
With splits of 23.58/27.98, Peters was the only player in the field to break 52 seconds and was the fourth fastest of his career. His score of 51.56 is exactly on par with the GB Olympic selection standard for swimming, but he will need to repeat that level of performance in the final to add his name to the Paris roster.
bus teammates Ed Mildred The next closest competitor was a man from Manchester, who clocked a time of 52.11 seconds. jamie ingram The person who touched at 52.23.
Ingram won the bronze medal at this event last year with a score of 51.98, and Mildred set the fastest time in the U.S. with a score of 51.79, fourth fastest in the nation's history.
Guy slipped in as the No. 4 seed this morning after a controlled swim of 52.26 seconds, joining the fight for gold and a qualifying time. The 28-year-old qualified for the 100m free last night with a new personal best of 48.68 seconds, but was eliminated in the final.
Men's 100m Fly Top 8:
- Jacob Peters (Bath) – 51.56
- Ed Mildred (Bath) – 52.11
- Jamie Ingram (Manchester) – 52.23
- james guy (Millfield) – 52.26
- Joe Litchfield (Loughborough) – 52.28
- Joshua Gammon (Bath) – 52.56
- Lewis Fraser (Swansea) – 52.64
- Thomas Carswell (Edinburgh) – 53.03
Similar to the men's 200m fly yesterday, the women's 400m free has a lot of opportunity, and the time is ripe for someone to step up and make it happen.
The Bath swimmer led the top five in this morning's heat, taking the top five by just around two seconds. Leah Crisp.
Crisp, 22, ran a time of 4:15.16 and held a .21 lead over the 14-year-old rising star. Amelie Blocksidge of Salford.
Brocksidge had already won the 1500m free title at those championships, and followed that up with a time of 4:15.37.
in the Wycombe area Lucy Fox and Holly Hibbott The Bath athletes are right in there too, with times of 4:16.43 and 4:16.54 respectively.
Crisp holds a lifetime best of 4:12.26 in the 4 free, while Brocksidge has clocked a 4:12.95 in his young career, meeting Aquatics GB's Olympic selection criteria of 4: 04.98 has become a major challenge.
The 24-year-old Hibbott's personal best of 4:05.01 is well within the standard record, but it was set in 2018. Her most recent result was 4:16.00 at the Flanders Swimming Cup in January.
Women's 400m free top 8:
- Leah Crisp (Bath) – 4:15.16
- Amelie Brocksidge (Salford) – 4:15.37
- Lucy Fox (Wycombe) – 4:16.43
- Holly Hibbott (Bath) – 4:16.54
- Michaela Glenister (Stirling) – 4:17.28
- Megan Burns (Mount Kelly) – 4:17.38
- Fleur Lewis (Loughborough) – 4:17.51
- Jemima Hall (Bath) – 4:19.52
Aquatics GB has set the Olympic qualification standard for the women's 200m back race at a tough 2:08.91, but only eight British women have fallen below this standard.
Two of those women honey oslin and Kathleen Dawsonappeared in this morning's heat and secured a spot in the final.
Oslin, 21, from Loughborough, stopped the clock in 2 minutes 10.25 seconds, giving him a lead of nearly two seconds. Her time is the fifth-best of her career, and she boasts her recent lifetime best of 2:08.48, which she recorded at the BUCS Championships in February.
Oslin's performance is on par with the 100m back time he recorded on day two here in London. She ran a time of 1:00.58, beating her previous PR of 1:01.64 set in 2021 by one second.
olympic athlete Kathleen Dawson However, he is aiming for his second gold medal at these championships. Dawson has already qualified for Paris in the 100m back, and was seeded fourth in the long distance with a time of 2:13.07.
She has a record time of 2:08.14 in this event, but that was in 2021. She needs to work harder to get back to that level, but her sub-1 minute 100m run result was encouraging.
Another strong candidate heading into the finals is katie shanahan. The Scot took the third seed in 2:12.30 and has a 2022 European Championship silver medal on his resume.
Shanahan is the No. 3 performer in GBR history and owns a personal benchmark of 2:07.45 at the 2023 World Championships, which placed him fourth.
Women's 200m back top 8:
- Honey Oslin (Loughborough) – 2:10.25
- Holly McGill (Stirling) – 2:12.12
- Katie Shanahan (Sterling) – 2:12.30
- Kathleen Dawson (Sterling) – 2:13.07
- Pia Murray (Leyland) – 2:13.88
- Alicia Wilson (Guilford) – 2:14.37
- Rachel Anderson (Loughborough) – 2:14.68
- Martina Karavac (Chelsea & West) – 2:14.87
Four of the top nine runners in British history have competed in the men's 200m IM. Duncan Scott, Tom Dean, Max Litchfield and mark zaranek.
For the most part, the leading competitors kept their cards close to their chests, with only Scott falling below the 2:00 threshold.
Scott is the current Olympic silver medalist in this event from the 2020 Tokyo Games, and also won silver at last year's World Championships. This performance set him a Japanese record of 1:55.28, making the 26-year-old the only British swimmer to ever break his 1:56.
Last night's 400m IM winner max litchfield Next in line this morning was Punch at 2:00.07.
Lichfield beat Scott's British benchmark en route to qualifying for Paris with the longer IM. He set a 2IM lifetime best of 1:56.64 in 2017. His personal record is quite long, but Litchfield's 4IM time last night was his best since the same year.
Dean, 23, followed this up by finishing third in the men's 100m free last night, clocking 2:00.72 as the fourth seed. He shared the Tokyo podium with Scott at the 2020 Games, winning the 2IM bronze medal.
Mainstay Sharanek is in 5th place in tonight's final. evan jones Stirling's athlete set a brilliant PB of 2:00.69 and placed third in the main event.
Men's 200m IM Top 8:
- Duncan Scott (Stirling) – 1:58.88
- Max Lichfield (Loughborough) – 2:00.07
- Evan Jones (Sterling) – 2:00.69
- Tom Dean (Bath) – 2:00.72
- Mark Zaranek (Carnegie) – 2:00.86
- Matthew Ward (Bath) – 2:01.43
- Charlie Hutchison (Loughborough) – 2:01.56
- William Riley (Cardiff) – 2:03.81
