2022 British Swimming Championships Day 5 Finals Live Recap

2022 BRITISH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Tuesday, April 5th – Sunday, April 10th
• Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield
• LCM (50m)
• World Championships & Commonwealth Games-qualifying competition
• British Swimming 2022 Budapest Selection Policy
• Commonwealth Games Selection Policies vary by home nation
• SwimSwam Preview
• Draft Entries
• Live Results
• Livestream

After today, we’ll have just one day left of these 2022 British Swimming Championships the meet which represents the Trials for both World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

As a refresher, some names have been pre-selected to compete at the World Championships by virtue of their performances at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. They are as follows:

• Kathleen Dawson – women’s 100 back
• Tom Dean – men’s 200 free
• Luke Greenbank – men’s 200 back
• Daniel Jervis – men’s 1500 free
• Max Litchfield – men’s 400 IM
• Adam Peaty – men’s 100 breast
• Ben Proud – men’s 50 free
• Molly Renshaw – women’s 200 breast
• Duncan Scott – men’s 200 free & 200 IM
• James Wilby – men’s 100 & 200 breast
• Abbie Wood – women’s 200 IM

Additionally, James Guy, Anna Hopkin and Matt Richards will all earn a spot at Worlds due to the fact that they swam on in a relay final that won a medal in Tokyo.

MEN’S 800 FREESTYLE FINAL

• British Record – 7:44.32, David Davies 2009
• World Championships Qualifying Time – 7:49.58

Podium:

GOLD – Daniel Jervis, 7:50.35
SILVER – Luke Turley, 7:54.52
BRONZE – Kieran Bird, 7:55.95

Unfortunately for Great Britain, no swimmer notched an automatic qualifying time in this men’s 800m free tonight.

Olympian Daniel Jervis topped the podium in 7:50.35, while Luke Turley and Kieran Bird also grabbed medals in respective efforts of 7:54.52 and 7:55.95.

A minimum time of 7:49.58 was set forth by British Swimming for this summer’s FINA World Aquatic Championships.

WOMEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE FINAL

• British Record – 27.19, Kathleen Dawson 2021
• World Championships Qualifying Time – N/A

Podium:

GOLD – Lauren Cox, 27.83
SILVER – Medi Harris, 27.84
BRONZE – Kathleen Dawson, 28.31

Capturing her first-ever British national title, Loughborough’s Lauren Cox busted out a new lifetime best to take the women’s 50m back.

Hitting the time pad in 27.83, Cox beat out the 100m backstroke winner here Medi Harris by just .01, dipping under the 28-second threshold for the first time in her career. Cox now ranks as the 6th fastest British performer of all time.

National record holder Kathleen Dawson rounded out the top 3 in 28.31 this evening.

No additional female made the grade for Budapest in the individual 100m back here earlier, however, with the top swimmer, Harris, clocking 59.95 when British Swimming mandates a 59.02.

MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE FINAL

• British Record – 21.11, Ben Proud 2018
• World Championships Qualifying Time – 21.79

Podium:

GOLD – Lewis Burras, 21.77
SILVER – Ben Proud, 21.91
BRONZE – Adam Barratt, 22.52

21-year-old Lewis Burras earned the sprint king crown by doubling up on his 100m free victory with a 50m free gold here.

Burras of Winchester produced a personal best of 21.77 to top the podium, beating out ‘the hulk’ who is British national record holder Ben Proud. Proud, unrested, as he is already pre-qualified in this event, snagged silver in 21.91 while veteran Adam Barratt wrapped up bronze in 22.52.

It was just this past December when Burras established his new lifetime best in the splash n’ dash, a mark of 21.79 at a local Winchester meet. On a British historical swimming scale, his result sits only behind Proud who owns the national record in a time of 21.11 from 2018.

Proud logged a time of 21.72 to finish in 5th place in this event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE FINAL

• British Record – 4:00.60, Joanne Jackson 2009
• World Championships Qualifying Time – 4:05.22

Podium:

GOLD – Freya Anderson, 4:08.46
SILVER –Freya Colbert, 4:09.04
BRONZE – Mia Slevin, 4:13.24

Although she snagged the top seed out of the morning heats, North Carolina State University-commit Tamryn Van Selm dropped down to finish 4th in this women’s 400m free event, registering a time of 4:13.95.

Soaring to the top of the podium was two-time European Short Course Championships gold medalist Freya Anderson who touched in 4:08.46 for a decisive win.

Edging out Freya Colbert, Anderson bumped herself up from 2nd after the prelims to now the gold medalist here.

Anderson is prequalified for Budapest for relays but is chasing an individual event addition here, while Colbert already nailed a big-time personal best in the 200m free.

MEN’S 200 IM FINAL

• British Record – 1:55.28, Duncan Scott 2021
• World Championships Qualifying Time – 1:57.61

Podium:

GOLD – Duncan Scott, 1:56.08 (pre-qualified)
SILVER – Tom Dean, 1:57.18 *Budapest Qualifying*
BRONZE – James McFadzen, 1:59.60

Scotland’s most decorated Olympian of all time Duncan Scott simply does not disappoint, putting up a swift 1:56.08 to decisively win the men’s 200m IM here at the British Championships.

Beating a stacked field by over a second, Scott logged his fastest time of 2022, beating out the 1:56.33 Chinese Olympic champion Wang Shun posted last September to take over the world rankings.

In fact, this outing here ranks as versatile Scott’s 3rd fastest outing of all time. His national record sits at the 1:55.28 he produced at the 2020 Olympic Games, while he also hit 1:55.90 at last year’s British Olympic Trials.

Tom Dean, the 200m free Olympic champion, already qualified in the men’s 100m free here for the 2022 FINA World Aquatic Championships but now the Bath swimmer adds this 200m IM to his agenda as well.

WOMEN’S 200 IM FINAL

• British Record – 2:06.88, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor 2016
• World Championships Qualifying Time – 2:10.98

Podium:

GOLD – Abbie Wood, 2:11.03
SILVER – Lily Booker, 2:13.41
BRONZE – Katie Shanahan, 2:13.63

Olympic finalist Abbie Wood is already pre-selected in this 200m IM event, but she put forth a solid effort nonetheless.

Touching in 2:11.03, Wood beat the field by over 2 seconds, with mainstay Lily Booker hitting 2:13.41 for silver while the 200m backstroke champion here Katie Shanahan posted 2:13.63 to round out the podium.