Three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty secured an individual berth for the upcoming Paris Olympics by winning the 100m men's breaststroke at the GB Swimming Championships with a time of 57.94 seconds. Peaty, who had struggled with mental health issues and personal circumstances, made a strong comeback, emphasizing a new relaxed mindset. Peaty's victory marks his resurgence in the sport after taking a break to prioritize his mental health. The British Championships also saw other swimmers, like James Wilby and Keanna MacInnes, qualify for nominations for the Aquatics GB team.
Adam Peaty, the world-record holder in the 100-meter breaststroke, won a bronze medal at the World Aquatics Championships after taking an extended break to focus on mental health. American swimmer Nic Fink took the gold, while Nicolo Martinenghi of Italy won silver. Peaty's main goal for this season is the Paris Olympics. Peaty had a slow start and couldn't recover, but he remains positive and focused on improving for future competitions. Peaty missed the 2022 worlds due to a foot injury, and his most recent major meet was the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Adam George Peaty (born 28 December 1994) is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, and retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title. He is also an eight-time World Champion, a sixteen-time European Champion and a four-time Commonwealth Champion. According to FINA itself, Peaty is widely regarded as the dominant breaststroke swimmer of his era, and the most dominant sprint breaststroke swimmer of all time.Peaty is the holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events. He has broken world records 14 times, becoming the first man to swim under 26 seconds for the 50 metre breaststroke and the first to swim the 100 metre breaststroke under both 58 and 57 seconds. He is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships.Peaty is one of only six British swimmers, with David Wilkie, Rebecca Adlington, James Guy, Duncan Scott, and Tom Dean to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and with David Wilkie the only swimmers to hold all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, and which he uniquely maintained through the 2020 Olympics. Peaty is a six-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2019, and also a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.
James Wilby (born 12 November 1993) is a British competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. Wilby is the 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in 200 metre breaststroke, the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion in 100 metre breaststroke, and the 2022 European champion in 200 metre breaststroke. He formed part of the Great Britain team that won World Championship gold in the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay in 2019, and the England team that won the Commonwealth Games Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay in 2014 and 2022.He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, winning a silver in the 2020 Summer Olympics as a heat swimmer in the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay, three FINA World Aquatics Championships, winning a further silver in the 100m breaststroke, and two bronze medals, and England at three Commonwealth Games, where he has won four other medals aside from his four gold medals.Wilby's career overlapped those of several other internationally significant British breaststrokers, including Olympic and Commonwealth medalist Michael Jamieson, Commonwealth and European champion Ross Murdoch and multiple Olympic and World champion Adam Peaty. in 2022 Wilby became the first swimmer to defeat Peaty in an international 100 metres breaststroke race since Peaty first won the World title, claiming the Commonwealth gold medal in the event in Birmingham in 2022.
In a span of less than 40 minutes, Regan Smith swam the fastest times ever this early in a year in the 100m backstroke and 200m butterfly. Smith won the 100m back in 57.64 seconds at a Tyr Pro Series meet in Westmont, Illinois, seven hundredths off her American record from 2019 and the ninth-fastest time in history. The fact that the time happened in an early March meet is notable given swimmers train to peak not in the winter, but for championship meets in the late spring and into the summer. She could be even faster at Junes Olympic Trials and the Paris Olympics in July.
Scottish records in swimming are ratified by Scotland's governing body in swimming, Scottish Swimming. Records can be set in long course (50 metres) or short course (25 metres) swimming pools, with records currently recorded in the following events for both men and women.Freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, 1500 mBackstroke: 50 m, 100 m, 200 mBreaststroke: 50 m, 100 m, 200 mButterfly: 50 m, 100 m, 200 mIndividual medley: 100 m (short course only), 200 m, 400 mRelays: 4×50 m freestyle (short course only), 4 × 100 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle, 4×50 m freestyle (short course only), 4 × 100 m medleyRecords can be set at intermediate distances in an individual race and for the first leg of a relay race.The ratification process involves submission of an application by the swimmer to Scottish Swimming detailing the name(s) of the swimmer, time swum, date and location of the swim, names of officials and the swimsuit model worn. Upon ratification, the records appear on the official records listing. Records which have not yet been fully ratified are marked with a '#' symbol in these lists, and all records were achieved in finals unless otherwise noted.
The 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships were held at the London Aquatics Centre in London, from 3 April to 8 April 2024. They also doubled as the trials for the 2024 Summer Olympics. They were organised by Aquatics GB, the new brand name of British Swimming and are the first time the event has been held under that title.
The British Swimming Championships are an annual event organised by British Swimming (the governing body of swimming in the United Kingdom).
British Swimming is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, artistic swimming, diving and open water in Great Britain. British Swimming is a federation of the national governing bodies of England (Swim England), Scotland (Scottish Swimming), and Wales (Swim Wales). These three are collectively known as the Home Country National Governing Bodies.For international swimming purposes, competitive swimming in Northern Ireland falls under the Irish swimming federation, Swim Ireland, and as such British Swimming represents Great Britain, rather than the United Kingdom. For the Olympic Games, Northern Irish swimmers may opt to compete for British Swimming.British Swimming is a member of World Aquatics, LEN, the British Olympic Association and the British Paralympic Association, and has responsibility for elite performance, doping control and international relationships and events for the sports within the Great Britain. The Home Country National Governing Bodies are affiliated to British Swimming and are responsible for all other management of the sports in their respective countries from the learn to swim programmes up to performance development.
Keanna Louise Macinnes (born 19 August 2001) is a swimmer from Scotland, who is a British Champion. In 2023 at the inaugural under-23 European Championships she won gold in the 100 and 200 metre butterfly events.
Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, has announced her retirement from professional cycling at the age of 31. Throughout her career, she won five Olympic golds, seven world titles, and inspired women and girls to be active. Kenny thanked cycling, Team GB, British Cycling, her partners, team mates, and family for their support. Her retirement comes after experiencing a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. Despite hopes of competing in the Paris Olympics, she decided to move on to the next chapter after not returning to Team GB training following the birth of her second child.
The world records in swimming are ratified by World Aquatics (formerly known as FINA), the international governing body of swimming. Records can be set in long course (50 metres) or short course (25 metres) swimming pools. World Aquatics recognizes world records in the following events for both men and women, except for the mixed relays, where teams consist of two men and two women, in any order.Freestyle: 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500mBackstroke: 50m, 100m, 200mBreaststroke: 50m, 100m, 200mButterfly: 50m, 100m, 200mIndividual medley: 100m (short course only), 200m, 400mRelays: 4 × 50 m freestyle relay (short course only), 4 × 100 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle, 4 × 50 m medley relay (short course only), 4 × 100 m medleyMixed relays: 4 × 50 m mixed freestyle (short course only), 4 × 100 m mixed freestyle (long course only), 4 × 50 m mixed medley (short course only), 4 × 100 m mixed medley (long course only)The ratification process is described in FINA Rule SW12, and involves submission of paperwork certifying the accuracy of the timing system and the length of the pool, satisfaction of FINA rules regarding swimwear and a negative doping test by the swimmer(s) involved. Records can be set at intermediate distances in an individual race and for the first leg of a relay race. Records which have not yet been fully ratified are marked with a '#' symbol in these lists.Some of the records below were established by swimmers wearing bodysuits or suits made of polyurethane or other non-textile materials allowed in the race pool from February 2008 until December 2009. On the eve of the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, the international governing body for five Olympic aquatic sports voted to ban the use of bodysuits and all suits made of non-textile materials starting 1 January 2010. The suits seemed to improve the performance in those with larger physiques, boosting performance in some athletes more than others, depending on morphology and physiology. Since then, best times set by swimmers wearing textile materials have once again overtaken more than half of the world records recognized by World Aquatics.On 25 July 2013, FINA Technical Swimming Congress voted to allow world records in the long course mixed 400 free relay and mixed 400 medley relay, as well as in six events in short course meters: the mixed 200 medley and 200 free relays, as well as the men's and women's 200 free relays and the men's and women's 200 medley relays. In October 2013, FINA decided to establish "standards" before something can be recognized as the first World Record in these events. But later on 13 March 2014 FINA has officially ratified the eight world records set by Indiana University swimmers at the IU Relay Rally held on 26 September 2013 in Bloomington.
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