2024 AQUATICS GB SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (OLYMPIC TRIALS)
- Tuesday, April 2nd – Sunday, April 7th
- Prelims at 10 am local (5 am EDT), Finals at 7 pm local (2 pm EDT)
- London Aquatics Centre
- LCM (50m)
- British Swimming Olympic Selection Policy
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam Preview
- Entries
- Prelims: Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/Day 6 Recap
- Finals: Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/Day 6 Recap
- Results
- Livestream: Channel 4 YouTube coverage
Action wrapped up tonight from the 2024 Aquatics GB Olympic Trials which means we have our initial list of potential qualifiers for this summer’s Olympic Games.
As a refresher, the competition represented the sole opportunity for athletes to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games, with first-place finishers in each event being selected provided they beat the Aquatics GB-mandated selection standard outlined in their qualification policy linked above.
The Head Performance Director Chris Spice and Head Coach Bill Furniss can discretionarily add swimmers to the roster up to the maximum of 30 so we won’t entirely know who will represent the nation in Paris until the official lineup is released sometime in the near future.
For now, here are the swimmers who notched qualification standards outright, as well as relay qualifiers and additional swimmers who dipped under either the Aquatics GB standard or the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification time.
Stay tuned for the actual roster once it’s been released.
British Olympic Qualifiers Through Day 6 of Trials
The following swimmers finished 1st in their event and beat the Aquatics GB selection standard:
- Keanna MacInnes – women’s 200m fly (2:07.24)
- Freya Colbert – women’s 200m free (1:56.22)
- Adam Peaty – men’s 100m breast (57.94)
- Oliver Morgan – men’s 100m back (52.70), 200m back (1:56.27)
- Kathleen Dawson – women’s 100m back (59.74)
- Daniel Jervis – men’s 1500m free (14:47.94)
- Freya Colbert – women’s 400m IM (4:34.01)
- Anna Hopkin – women’s 50m free (24.53), 100m free (53.33)
- Max Litchfield – men’s 400m IM (4:09.14)
- Matt Richards – men’s 100m free (47.84), 200m free (1:44.69)
- Honey Osrin – women’s 200m back (2:08.37)
- Duncan Scott – men’s 200m IM (1:55.91)
- Ben Proud – men’s 50m free (21.25)
- Abbie Wood – women’s 200m IM (2:08.91)
The following swimmers have provisionally qualified in relays:
- Abbie Wood – women’s 4x200m free relay
- Medi Harris – women’s 4x200m free relay
- Lucy Hope – women’s 4x200m free relay
- Duncan Scott – men’s 4x100m free relay, 4x200m free relay
- Tom Dean – men’s 4x100m free relay, 4x200m free relay
- Alexander Cohoon – men’s 4x100m free relay
- Joe Litchfield – men’s 4x100m medley relay
- Keanna MacInnes – women’s 4x100m medley relay
- James Guy – men’s 4x200m free relay
Other Qualification Notes
The following swimmers finished 2nd in their event and beat the Aquatics GB selection standard:
- Laura Stephens – women’s 200m fly (2:07.37)
- Abbie Wood – women’s 200m free (1:56.62)
- Jonny Marshall – men’s 100m back (53.03)
- Katie Shanahan – women’s 400m IM (4:36.67)
- Duncan Scott – men’s 100m free (47.92), 200m free (1:44.75)
- Katie Shanahan – women’s 200m back (2:08.53)
- Tom Dean – men’s 200m IM (1:56.44)
- Matt Richards – men’s 50m free (21.83)
- Freya Colbert – women’s 200m IM (2:10.46)
- Luke Greenbank – men’s 200m back (1:56.39)
The following 1st place finishers did not meet the Aquatics GB selection standard but did meet the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time (‘A’ cut):
- Kieran Bird – men’s 400m free (3:45.63)
- Tobias Robinson – men’s 800m free (7:51.51), men’s 1500m free (14:54.75)
- Keanna MacInnes – women’s 100m fly (57.92)
- Angharad Evans – women’s 100m breast (1:06.54)
Colbert had a great 4 IM
Tough luck for Alicia Wilson missing out on this Olympic cycle after Tokyo, even after she hired Teri McKeever to coach her after Big 12s
There are 23 athletes for sure. I would add at least these 4 athletes: Angharad Evans (100 breaststroke and 4×100 womens medley relay), Eva Okaro and Freya Anderson (4×100 womens free relay, Anderson obviously also for the 4×200 free), Jacob Peters (4×100 mens medley relay). Other 3 names may be added to reach the cap of 30 athletes.
and Kara Hanlon
Isn’t Abbie Wood secured due to her winning time in 200 IM ?
And she’s in that list
Robinson also hit the A standard but not the nomination standard in the 1500. He was much closer to the nomination standard in that one.
Robinson already has a quota in the Open Water, so not sure if allowing him to swim his pool events would count v the 30
Forgot Whittle?
Whittle and McMillan would be in a category as 5th place relay finishers relying on a discretionary pick.
Some cleaning needed here:
“Keanna MacInnes – women’s 4x100m medley relay”
The team didn’t qualify so this needs to be removed.
There are also 2 Shanahans that need to me merged to one.
It would be useful to list potential relay swimmers if the women’s free and medley relays get taken anyway:
Free: Okaro and Anderson would be added.
Medley: Evans and MacInnes would be added.
ALL GBR womens relays HAVE qualified according to World Aquatics; what has yet to established is whether AGB stand by their own self-imposed metrics or not.
MacInnes is already duly qualified onto the team via W200fly; what is to be decided is whether she gets the additonal 100fly swim plus W4XMED relay duty. As is, she may already have relay duty via MMR; question being whether they stick with the FMMF line-up or switch to MMFF due to Morgan’s emergence as potential backstroke weapon.
MMFF would the right line-up this time. Morgan could be approx 7.5 to 8 seconds faster than Dawson on backstroke. That’s a wider gap than on butterfly on current form.
I tend to agree. In 2021, GBR men’s 100back was non competitive whereas Dawson was then (notionally) swimming 58s.
It can also be argued that Guy may not be able to replicate his fly heroics of 2021 but:
It will be a case of hoping Morgan can keep them close at first exchange then Peaty deliver something “otherworldly” then pray that MacInnes & Hopkin can hold on for a medal. They should certainly be ” in the… Read more »
Realistically I don’t think gold is on the cards. They’ll do well for bronze.
2021 was a perfect race for that team. Dawson, Guy and Hopkin were all bang on form that day with Peaty as the ace in the pack as always.
Very much agree. USA shot themselves in the foot with their selections and their 2 female legs hurt them. Peaty & Guy completely “bossed it” and gave Hopkin sufficient margin to hold on.
To my mind, the two strongest hands are CHN & USA; neither being “bullet-proof”. AUS can usually come roaring home but, lacking male backstroke quality and relatively weak male breaststroke, they’re generally coming from a bit too far back to win gold. NED = not sure they can win but could be thereabouts.
Sorry – just to give Hopkin her due: 52.0 is not just “holding on”. I would very much include that in the “bossed it” category.
Part of the perfect storm last time was not just that Peaty was a space alien, but that none of the other major contenders had a world class breastroke – indeed, USA put in a woman, which is basically suicide in the medley, because they had no competitive male and they had at least the women’s Olympic champ. But there is simply no way to make back the time in 100 free (c. 47v52) that you lose in 100 breast (c. 58v65). You are essentially giving away two seconds, at best.
This time US and China clearly can more or less match Peaty. If Jimmy Guy was still on his old 100 fly form, FMMF might just get the job… Read more »
I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that the US “can more or less match Peaty”. He already went faster than any US breaststroker has ever been, and you would expect him to only get faster by the summer with the extra training. China is another matter of course, and overall I agree that it looks like GB will be scrapping for bronze, with US/China fighting it out for gold.
we dont have a 1 breast stroker that will be able to scrap with Qin in that race. We have a 31 year old, fantastic swimmer, but probably past his prime.
Who’s the 31 year old fantastic swimmer probably past his prime?
Nic Fink will be 31 by Paris?
Definitely!