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On the final night of the 2025 Aquatics GB Championships, which is the only selection opportunity for British swimmers aiming to qualify for the World Championships this July in Singapore, Angharad Evans set a new British record and world-leading time in the women’s 100 breaststroke.
The 21-year-old stopped the clock at 1:05.37, breaking her own national record of 1:05.54 set last May. Italy’s Anita Bottazzo held the previous fastest 2025 time, with her 1:05.82 from the Italian National Championships earlier this week.
Evans’ drop from her previous mark came entirely from the backhalf, where she shaved 0.20 off her previous split while taking the race out just 0.03 slower. See a full splits comparison between the two record swims below.
Splits Comparison:
| Evans’ New British Record | Evans’ Former British Record | |
| First 50m | 31.05 | 31.02 |
| Second 50m | 34.32 | 34.52 |
| Total Time | 1:05.37 | 1:05.54 |
Evans’ time of 1:05.37 would have been fast enough for silver at the Paris Olympics, where Tatjana Smith (née Schoenmaker) claimed gold with a time of 1:05.28. The time also would have earned silver at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, which positions Evans in a strong spot for a podium finish this summer in Singapore.
Prior to tonight’s performance, Evans had already qualified for the World Championships with a world-leading 2:21.86 in the 200 breast—a time that was recently surpassed by world record holder Evgeniia Chikunova, who posted a 2:20.36 just hours later. Evans’ best in that event before this week was 2:22.64, recorded at the BUCS Championships in Sheffield in February.
After representing the University of Georgia for one season—where she placed 7th in the 100 breast at the 2022 SEC Championships and 20th at the NCAA Championships—Evans stepped away from international racing, taking an extended break and sitting out of competition entirely for a full year.
After returning to Great Britain to train at the University of Stirling in Scotland, Evans made her comeback in 2023 at the British Championships, where she placed 3rd in both the 50 and 100 breast, narrowly missing a spot on Team GB’s World Championship roster.
Evans’ breakthrough came at the 2024 British Olympic Trials, where she won the 100 breast in 1:06.54, securing a spot on her first major international team—junior or senior—after throwing down a big personal best of 1:06.27 in the morning heats. She then competed at the AP Race London meet, winning the 100 breast with the aforementioned previous national record of 1:05.54.
In Paris, Evans followed up with a strong 1:05.85 to place 6th in the final. She capped off her season at the 2024 Short Course World Championships in Hungary, contesting all three breast events. There, she finished 12th in the 50, 7th in the 100, and 8th in the 200. Notably, her prelims swim in the 100 breast—1:03.45—was a national record.
Progression of Evans’ 100 LCM Breaststroke Performances:
- 1:08.05, 2023 British Swimming Championships
- 1:07.10, 2024 BUCS Long Course Championships (heats)
- 1:06.65, 2024 BUCS Long Course Championships
- 1:06.27, 2024 British Olympic Trials
- 1:06.25, 2024 Edinburgh International
- 1:05.54, 2024 AP Race International
- 1:05.37, 2025 Aquatics GB Championships
She’s going to break the world record in the 100.
Interesting that she follows Trump on insta though
Me when someone has a different political view 🤯
Creeping fascism vs. democracy
Mugshot buddies
Keep in mind some people follow him for entertainment or to see what new crazy he’s doing. Others are fans. Basically saying just because one follows, doesn’t mean a clear reason why.
And?
Brit women are creeping up on Canadian women. Leading them in sprint free and BR now.
Nah, we are still way behind you on back, free and fly.
Yeah but it’s coming. But Canadian men improving too. It’s a nice country rivalry.
Summer’s not a sprinter but she’s faster than the winner of the British trials in the 100 free. It’s definitely not close
Hence no British woman made the qualifying standard but sure.
No Canadian woman made the QT for the 100 Free last year either.
Her and Matt Sates were teammates. Their careers went in complete opposite directions after Georgia
No more getting arrested downtown sure helps that!
Wow, you can even see her mugshot on Google Images! She was booked at Clarke County Jail for “public indecency” in September 2022.
Googled this…and wow! Is that why she left?
So, who was arrested, and why?
Who cares? It’s not relevant.
Evans was arrested in Athens in September 2022. Disorderly conduct and public indecency, both misdemeanors. Paid a $440 fine + $50 court costs, 6 months of probation. Pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and the prosecutor dropped the public indecency case.
Accusations were that she mooned someone outside of student housing (“did, in a public place, perform a lewd exposure of her buttocks”) and another UGA student (not a swimmer) was “placed in reasonable fear of the safety of her life, limb and health.”
Her lawyer’s argument was basically “this is dumb, even if it happened, you haven’t said how anybody was in danger, and also the butt is not a sexual organ so this isn’t a crime.”
lmao this is crazy
Athens downtown really can take its victims sometimes
Seriously? These police have clearly never been on a university campus before!
Court documents don’t contain any commentary about what was really going on…so I’m sure there’s more to the story.
Perhaps after she wins in LA, she’ll write all about it,
I am a nurse, which makes me less bothered than most, but I fail see how the sight of someone’s bum could possibly place someone in fear of the safety of their life, limb, and health! Quite astonishing.
Again, we don’t know all the details. The charges don’t directly tie the exposure of the buttocks to the disorderly conduct charge other than being the same arrest. It does not say “she exposed her buttocks and that made someone feel unsafe.” It was two separate charges from the same incident.
Fair enough.
It used to be you felt unsafe if someone threatened you with bodily harm (or something worse)…now it’s just about anything makes people feel unsafe.