Who is swimming for team gb

Joining the four pre-selected swimmers, Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott, James Wilby and Luke Greenbank, who were named on the team back in January, are a further 24 athletes, taking the current team size to Former World Champion Ben Proud added his name to the list thanks to posting a trials-winning time that would have earned him silver at the World Championships in the 50m Freestyle event.

In what was a fitting finale to a very successful trials, both Scott and Tom Dean went inside the previous British m Freestyle record, with Dean now joining Scott on the plane to Japan with ambitions of both individual and relay success. There are also a wave of young women who have used the month hiatus to continue improving; Kathleen Dawson winning the m and m Backstroke in London two weeks ago, becoming the eighth-fastest swimmer in history in the former, Molly Renshaw obliterating the British m Breaststroke record, whilst rising stars Freya Anderson and Abbie Wood qualified in a pair of events apiece.

Also named on the team are Litchfield brothers Joe and Max, m Individual Medley specialist Aimee Willmott — for who it will be her third Games — and Alys Thomas, the Swansea-based butterfly swimmer making her long-awaited Olympic debut at the age of Tokyo Team GB win gold in swimming and triathlon before two more bronzes as medal tally hits And how different training blocks correlate to different gains.

Such information is formidable power. Collected not just from the current crop but their successors too. There are quiet whispers around Eva Okaro, a year-old freestyle prodigy from Kent. A pathway that, unusually, sees home nations pool knowledge and pull in a single direction, has more fish in its tank. In Spice World, there is more winning well ahead, predicts Jamieson with confidence.

Log In. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account. By Mark Woods. They also brought back three silvers and a bronze, bettering their previous best tally in the pool of seven. Medal performances in Tokyo included gold and a world record in the first ever Olympic mixed 4xm medley relay, a historic gold and silver for Tom Dean and Duncan Scott in the m freestyle — the first time since that Britain have secured a first and second finish in the Olympic pool — and gold for Adam Peaty in the m breaststroke, which saw him become the first Briton to defend an Olympic swimming title.

Becoming the first black woman to swim for Team GB is a incredible achievement which I hope helps people realise swimming — from learning to swim 25 metres to elite level — can be done regardless of race or background.

Regardless, I will wear this as a badge of honour in the hope of making swimming more visible in black communities and display the countless options which become available to an individual, or a community, just by learning to swim.

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