2026 SCOTTISH NATIONAL OPEN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, June 26th – Sunday, June 28th
- Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, Scotland
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Live Results
The 2026 Scottish National Open Swimming Championships concluded last night from Edinburgh with swimmers gaining extra racing practice in preparation for this summer’s Commonwealth Games and European Championships.
We reported how Olympian Angharad Evans ripped a big-time effort of 1:04.98 in the women’s 100m breaststroke to kick off her campaign, falling just .02 shy of her best-ever outing and British national record of 1:04.96.
Not to be missed, however, was the fact that 23-year-old Evans also crushed a split of 1:04.41 while racing on her squad’s mixed medley relay that same day one.
Evans opened in a blistering 30.23 with a rolling start and concluded her leg in 34.18 to produce what is believed to be the 6th-fastest women’s breaststroke split in history. She demolished previous relay splits performed at elite international meets, including the 1:06.38 she notched at last year’s World Championships and the 1:05.40 she nabbed a year earlier at the Olympic Games.
This is the second sub-1:05 relay split Evans has established this year, pairing with the 1:04.60 she registered at March’s Edinburgh International Swim Meet.
Top 10 All-Time Women’s LCM 100 Breaststroke Relay Splits
- 1:03.95 – Yuliya Efimova (RUS), 2018
- 1:04.03 – Yuliya Efimova (RUS), 2017
- 1:04.12 – Chen Huijia (CHN), 2009
- 1:04.15 – Lilly King (USA), 2017
- 1:04.27 – Kate Douglass (USA), 2025
- 1:04.41 – Angharad Evans (GBR), 2026
- 1:04.58 – Leisel Jones (AUS), 2008
- 1:04.60 – Angharad Evans (GBR), 2026
- 1:04.65 – Sarah Katsoulis (AUS), 2009
- 1:04.71 – Rebecca Soni (USA), 2011
The final day of action at this competition saw Olympian Abbie Wood get to the wall first in the women’s 200m free, clocking a time of 1:58.04 for the gold.
That held off Leah Schlosshan who touched a hair later in 1:58.22, with Freya Anderson also landing on the podium in 1:58.77, good enough for bronze.
Ciara Schlosshan was too quick to catch in the women’s 100m fly, producing a mark of 58.49 as the gold medalist.
Behind her was Lucy Grieve who punched a result of 58.64, as Keanna MacInnes rounded out the podium in 59.03.
Just one woman cleared the 2:10 barrier in the 200m backstroke, with 22-year-old Katie Shanahan hitting a solid outing of 2:08.85.
Shanahan split 30.82/1:03.12/1:36.19/2:08.85 to deliver the result, one which represents the 9th-best time of her young career.
Her lifetime best remains at the 2:07.45 which rendered Shanahan the 4th-place finisher at the 2023 World Championships.
Additional Notes
- Manchester Performance Centre’s Ed Mildred posted a time of 52.03 to take the men’s 100m butterfly by more than a second.
- The men’s 50m breaststroke saw Archie Goodburn produce a result of 27.65, eking out the victory ahead of Loughborough’s Greg Butler who logged 27.83 as the only other man under the 28-second barrier.
- Olympic medalist Matt Richards hit a time of 22.59 in the men’s 50m free, with Alex Cohoon next in 22.72, just a fingernail ahead of 30-year-old David Cumberlidge who posted 22.73 for the bronze.
