2026 AQUATICS GB SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, April 14th – Sunday, April 19th
- Prelims at 9:30am local (4:30am ET)/B-Finals & Junior Finals at 6pm local (1pm ET)/A-finals at 7:45pm local (2:45pm ET)
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- Finals Recaps: Day 1
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Day two of the 2026 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships is underway, as swimmers are vying not only for slots on the British roster for this year’s European Championships but also for the chance to represent their Home Nations at this year’s Commonwealth Games.
At this competition in years past, we’ve seen the Junior Finals and B-Finals meshed in with the A-Finals during the nightly session. This time around, however, the Junior Finals and B-Finals are taking place much earlier, at 6pm local, whereas the A-Finals are slotted for 7:45pm local.
As such, we reviewed the earlier finals session and gleaned some results worth noting, with the main, medal-contesting events nearly upon us.
Repton Swimming, now home club to world record holder Adam Peaty, was called out on more than one occasion in the early finals session, with multiple swimmers from the squad getting to the wall first in their respective races.
First in the boys’ junior 50m breaststroke final, William Tonks delivered a time of 28.77 to grab the gold, representing the sole swimmer of the pack to delve under the 29-second barrier.
Although the teen’s personal best remains at a much quicker time of 28.22 from last year, his performance was enough to claim victory this evening.
Oscar Bilbao, who swims for Virginia Tech in the NCAA, ripped a new lifetime best of 27.90 to clear the 28-second barrier for the first time in his career.
Topping the B-Final of the 50m breaststroke, Bilbao’s 27.90 scorched his previous PB of 28.43 put up this time last year.
Swansea’s Lewis Fraser was also in the 27-second zone, picking up B-Final silver in 27.98.
Another Repton swimmer in Holly Robinson picked up the victory in the women’s 400m IM B-Final. Robinson posted a winning effort of 4:53.03 to take the event by over two seconds.
Repton’s Lydia Cordle was also a winner, reaping gold in the junior final of the 100m back.
Her time of 1:02.27 not only defeated the field but it obliterated her former PB of 1:03.31 from just this past Feburary.
In other races, Benjamin Beale of Derwent & Gate, along with runner-up Llewellyn Porter of Camden Swiss, dipped under the 2:02 threshold as the top two performers in the junior 200m fly final.
Beale logged 2:01.57 and Porter hit 2:01.70 to make their presence known on this day two.
Swansea’s 23-year-old two-time World Championships medalist Medi Harris was in the water, trying the 100m back B-final on for size.
Harris turned in a respectable swim of 1:01.79, still, though about a second outside the 1:00.88 Swim Wales has determined as the Commonwealth Games qualification standard.
Harris was the bronze medalist in this event at the 2022 edition of the Commonwealth Games, hitting a time of 59.62 there on the Gold Coast.
