The opening day of the 2026 British Swimming Championships got underway with five finals on the schedule, all crucial in the race for qualification to the European Championships in Paris and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The anticipated showdown between Adam Peaty and rising talent Filip Nowacki ultimately went in favour of the world record holder, while the women’s 100m freestyle final saw six of the eight finalists produce personal bests. Read more Read More
Freya Colbert has written a new chapter in British swimming history. At the Edinburgh International, the 22-year-old became the first British woman to break the 1:55 barrier in the 200-metre freestyle. Clocking 1:54.98, she lowered her own national record and further cemented her status as one of the leading figures in British women’s swimming. In a competition that served as an important tune-up ahead of next month’s British Championships, several rising talents also made their mark, underlining the strength and depth of a new generation emerging in this Olympic cycle. Read more Read More
Gabriel Shepherd and Patryk Przyczyna have been among the standout performers in recent days at the Swim England National Winter Championships in Sheffield, where they combined to set three British junior short-course records. In a meet largely dominated by senior performances – with three national records falling overall – the two young British swimmers managed to steal some of the spotlight, etching their names into the history books of age-group swimming in the UK. Read more Read More
Cameron Brooker, Edward Mildred and Tyler Melbourne Smith have each lowered a British short-course record in recent days at the Winter Championships held in Sheffield.Across just a handful of races, national benchmarks fell in the men’s 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly and 800m freestyle, some by significant margins. These swims go far beyond the simple notion of record-breaking, reshaping the British all-time standings in their respective events and underlining a particularly rich moment for short-course swimming in the United Kingdom. Read more Read More
On the penultimate night of the 2025 European Short Course Championships in Lublin, the british team enjoyed a standout evening thanks to two of its marquee names. Matt Richards and Ollie Morgan each lowered a national record, underlining their status as leaders of a squad brimming with confidence. Richards rewrote the British standard in the 100m freestyle while claiming bronze, and Morgan dipped under the national mark in the 50m backstroke to book his place in tonight’s final. Two world-class performances that lit up a highly successful session for the British contingent. Read more Read More
