2024 Aquatics GB Summer Championships Day 2 Recap

2024 AQUATICS GB SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Saturday, July 20th – Friday, July 26th
  • Ponds Forge, Sheffield, England
  • LCM (50m)
  • Recap #1
  • Live Results

The third day of action at the 2024 Aquatics GB Summer Championships unfolded tonight from Sheffield with more rising stars making their presence known on domestic soil.

The girls’ 17-year-old 100m back saw Mount Kelly’s Blythe Kinsman get to the wall first, posting a winning effort of 1:01.38. That checks in as the 3rd fastest time of the teen’s career, one which boasts a PB of 1:00.73 from this April’s Olympic Trials.

Rising star Kinsman earned bronze in the 50m back at this year’s European Junior Championships, registering a time of 28.29 in Vilnius, Lithuania earlier this month.

European Junior Championships medalist Theodora Taylor kept up her momentum from last night with a victory in the girls’ 15-year-old 100m breast.

Taylor stopped the clock at 32.64 to touch just a hair ahead of Basildon’s Jasmine Carter who settled for silver in 32.72. Repton’s Hannah Capron rounded out the podium in 33.54.

Taylor was a two-time individual medalist in Lithuania, capturing bronze in the 100m breast (1:08.59) and silver in the 200m breast (2:28.71) at just 15 years of age.

Finally, last night’s 100m breast king Max Morgan of Reed’s Swim Club, doubled up on his 100m victory with a gold in the 50m breast for 16-year-olds.

Morgan topped the podium in 27.52, a significant improvement upon his previous career-quickest result of 27.85 notched at May’s AP Race International.

Last night Morgan ripped a lifetime best of 1:00.10 to win the 100m breast, becoming the 12th-swiftest junior performer of all time.

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Dee
3 months ago

Xander Tovey (2010) set a massive age group record in the 100bk – 57.43. Very young but his stroke looks the business.

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