2023 SWIM ENGLAND SOUTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, November 3rd – Sunday, November 5th
- Millfield, Somerset, England
- SCM (25m)
- Results
Olympic medalists Matthew Richards and James Guy were both in action over the weekend, racing at the Swim England Southwest Regional Championships. The competition took place at the pair’s training home of Millfield in Somerset.
20-year-old Richards took a trio of victories across the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events. In the 50m, Richards notched a time of 21.72 to top the podium after punching 21.87 in the morning heats. Both outings sit just outside his list of top 10 personal performances, one which includes a personal best of 21.11 from December of last year.
The 100m free saw Richards get to the wall first in 46.61, beating the field by nearly 3 seconds in the process. Behind him was Olympian Cameron Kurle who clocked 49.57 as the runner-up.
Richards’ career-quickest in this 1free rests at the 45.85 he logged at the same 2022 Winter Championships from last December.
Finally, Richards earned gold in the 200m free in a time of 1:43.24, beating Guy who settled for silver in 1:44.07. The duo represented the sole competitors to get under the 1:48 barrier. Richards owns a PB of 1:41.50 while Guy has been as fast as 1:42.11 in his career.
Guy did get the edge over Richards in the 100m fly, however with the former hitting 51.39 to the latter’s 52.97.
Both speedsters were recently named to the 35-strong British roster bound for Romania for this year’s European Short Course Championships.
Kara Hanlon broke another Scottish Record in Aberdeen, Mat Trodden has more Scottish Records in the past 12 months than any other coach!
Surely Scotland’s best coach and athlete now!
Edinburgh has been closing the gap on British Centres now for a while and will soon take over.
Let the swimmers do the talking at Trials, eh?
Watched a bit of youtube from Fukuoka to see who the pic is of. Ended up wasting a lot of time! But did look again at the men’s 2IM for fun. How the hell did Tom Dean go from 8th at 150m to 3rd? Incredible.
7th
Watch Kyle go from 7th to gold lol
Not unexpected though, was it? I think it was much more of a surprise that Dean did what he did.
I dunno. Dean is Olympic champion in the 200 free. Not really surprising that he would have a very strong freestyle leg at the end of the 2IM
Very true, though it was still a pleasant surprise to many.
The total opposite of Michael Andrew, then!
Though he was second seed into the final, so not that surprising.
I’m pretty sure the other guy in the photo is not James Guy.
Definitely not
Pic is from Fukuoka, I believe. Could it perhaps be Hungary’s Nandor Nemeth? I am no doubt wrong……
No, not Nemeth. Checked youtube He swam the 100 free in black jammers.
It’s Tomer Frankel I think and the photo was taken after the 100 free heats.
Yes, I think you’re right. Thanks!
I can’t be the only one who read this headline and thought “oh damn, the English are fistfighting again!”
Don’t let Matt hear you calling him that 🏴
I’d honestly love to see Olympic swimmers spar eachother one time would be definitely entertainment
Olympic champions, not just medallists!
That would be like calling Kyle Chalmers (also in the picture) as an “Olympic medalist”