It was a day characterised by dominant wins in London, as Amalie Blocksidge, Max Litchfield and Amalie Smith blew away their respective competition to book their places in this summer’s major meets. There was greater drama elsewhere as plenty of swimmers out their hands up for team selections.
The 2026 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships kicked off with a bang in London, as swimmers sought places on teams for this summer’s major competitions and James Guy pulled out a memorable 400 freestyle performance that took us back a decade.
While there is a lot riding on Commonwealth Games selection at the Aquatics GB championships in London this week, there is still the small matter of picking the team for the European Championships in Paris which will follow hard on Glasgow's heels. 40 spots are up for grabs in London and this his how they will be allocated.
With a home Games in Glasgow, selection for Team Scotland carries extra weight, as swimmers chase the chance to represent their country in front of a home crowd. This year Scotland have gone with a streamlined two step process that focusses on just the one selection opportunity at the Aquatics GB championships. Here's how that unfolds.
Wales has had some notable success in Commonwealth waters in recent years and with a view to continuing that in Glasgow has put together a tight, performance-driven selection process. As in 2022, there is no preselection and this isn’t about a single trials meet. Instead, it’s a qualification window combined with discretionary selection. So here’s how Welsh swimmers make the team.
With the 2026 Commonwealth Games heading to Glasgow, Swim England has laid out a familiar multi-step selection process which provides the basis for building the team that will head north of the border in the summer. Here’s how the English team will take shape.
Earlier this year, as they have done for several years, the team at SwimSwam put their heads together to compile their annual Top 100 rankings of male and female swimmers. With the element of subjectivity firmly in mind, it remains an interesting exercise to revisit the lists through a British lens, considering how the GB cohort is viewed from the outside and what it says about the current state of British swimming as we head into the defining months of 2026.
2025 may not have been a vintage year in terms of medals on the board at the world championships, but that doesn't mean that Britain's swimmers didn't produce some outstanding swimming over the course of the season. With the year at a close, for the 26th time it is time to reveal the pullbuoy swimmers of the year for 2025.
A GB team of 17 swimmers will hit the waters at the European Short Course championship in Lublin, Poland this week to round out the international racing season for 2025. Here are 4 things to look out for.
There was a bombshell announcement his week as Ben Proud retired from swimming with immediate effect and instead joined the Enhanced Games. On this extra podcast, Steve, Bob and Katie take a brief look at the issues that this raises.
