2021 BRITISH SWIMMING INVITATION MEET
- Friday, March 12th – Sunday, March 14th
- Manchester Aquatic Center
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap
- Live Results
- Live Stream
The 2021 British Swimming Invitation Meet entered day 2 prelims this morning with a new Scottish national record by Kathleen Dawson in the women’s 100m back. She fired off a time of 59.36 to land lane 4 for tonight’s final, becoming Great Britain’s 3rd fastest woman all-time in the process.
Tonight, Dawson unleashed a monster 58.65 to take the gold here in Manchester, joining Gemma Spofforth in becoming just the 2nd British woman to ever get under the 59-second threshold. You can read more about Dawson’s feat here.
Of note, Cassie Wild, also of the University of Stirling, grabbed a sub-minute 100m back time of her own in 59.56. That ranks her 10th fastest in the world thus far this season.
James Guy followed up his 100m fly victory from last night with another gold in the 200m distance this evening. Rocking the only sub-2:00 outing of the entire field, versatile Guy punched a final result of 1:56.79 to get the job done for gold.
With a front half of 54.77 and a closing 100m of 1:02.02, Guy was just off the 1:56.34 he posted at the Manchester International Swim Meet just a few weeks ago.
The women’s 200m free saw winner Freya Anderson and runner-up Abbie Wood get to the wall less than .2 apart. Anderson touched in 1:58.23 to Wood’s 1:58.42, although their times are well-off the leaders of the world rankings who are more in the 1:55 and 1:56-range.
The case was similar in the men’s 100m free, with Stirling’s Olympian Duncan Scott logging a winning time of 49.09 to Tom Dean’s 49.11. European junior champion Matt Richards rounded out the top 3 in 49.44 tonight.
Scott also raced the men’s 200m IM where he was also the fastest man. Collecting gold in a time of 1:59.36, Scott edged out Loughborough’s Joe Litchfield who was also in the under-2:00 zone in 1:59.71.
Addtiaionl Winners:
- Aimee Willmott won the women’s 400m IM in a time of 4:39.11
- The men’s 50m back saw Nick Pyle grab gold in 26.48.
- Adam Peaty impressed once again in the breaststroke discipline, snagging the top prize in the 50m in 26.80.
British swimming is quite exciting this Olympic season! With the likes of Dawson and Greenbank Dean and of course Duncan Scott and James guy joining Peaty on quest for Olympic medals
imagine Jimmy GUY get back to top form like Kazan 2015 for the games this year 😮
Great swimming by Ms. Dawson tonight, congratulations. On a related note, I watched the Manchester Meet stream at the same pool a month ago & now am watching this event with equal gusto. I have been extremely impressed with the British Swimming streaming, & highly recommend that those who haven’t watched (yet anyway) to do so.
Here are a few very good reasons: the announcer Mike is stellar – very knowledgeable, so positive & encouraging, & his relaxed style differs wonderfully from other commentators (who shall not be named), who focus on one swimmer, get very excited & then make blunders which are both legendary & cringe-worthy. British Swimming also has recordings available a short while after streaming in their YouTube… Read more »
Agree with all this. British Swimming’s live streaming of events is excellent (and free!). And I enjoy Mike’s bright and sunny demeanour when announcing. He also makes sure he does his research: for instance, for this meet he was able to compare the swimmers’ times to what they swan at last month’s meet and/or their entry times, which is good info.
And yes, British Swimming in general has a good record of putting Para-swimmers on an equal billing: they’ve been doing this consistently for a few years now.
Good to know BritSwim has been doing this for years – wonderfully inclusive. And yes, as Thomas says, the live streaming is free. Also, please note the comment immediately below correcting the announcer’s name to Steven after getting further clarification from British Swimming.
I got word just a little while ago from British Swimming that the meet announcer is actually named Steven Jamieson rather than Mike. Seems there was some confusion about his name at their end, which has now been corrected. So we have Steven to thank for being so stellar, positive, knowledgeable & encouraging.
Duncan is the next MP, or as close as it will ever get
he is a class act. i hope he can do as expected in tokyo. he deserves a legacy
I’d say Seto is the closest we have to MP right now. Is nowhere near as good a sprinter of course, but he’s approaching MP’s textile bests in 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM.
So is O’Connor still training with Hemmings or did she go back to McNulty?
not sure where she swims now
I saw her in the Lboro pool and showers a few times last year so figured at Lboro now?
She’s retired last I heard. No one is speaking about it.
That’s a real shame if so. You’d think with her talent she’d be able to make it to Tokyo and have the experience.
She was part of the England training squad for the 2022 commonwealth games and post-ISL did a bbc interview where she talked about going to Tokyo and beyond so i would be suprised if she had, especially since her 2020 ISL times were better than her 2019 times showing improvement. British swimmer is also still in her insta-bio and shes one of the biggest stars of british swimming, it would be hard to go under the radar that she has completely stopped olympic year.
If she has that would be a shame because with Wood, Hopkin, Hope, Anderson, Hall and Hibbott the british free relays looked hopeful if not to win euros but even to contend for a final place… Read more »
You could be right though, Hemmings tags all of his swimmers on twitter and never does SMOC and ive not seen a single thing of her being at Bath. That would be a shame for british swimming.
She is training with the Bath Uni team who are allowed to train, not the National Centre, where she was before. Has not been in the pool for a little while now – don’t know why.
Sarah Vasey was 1:07:09 to win the 100 breast, which I think is her fastest time since 2017.
Obviously Dawson the star of the show, wow! Based on her 50 and heat swim I was expecting 59-low and hoping for 58-high. But 58.6 is fantastic, a full second knocked off her PB today. Also delighted for Wild who’d been knocking on the sub-60 door for a while. Great work from both, and as mentioned by others, gives GB options for mixed medley relay.
Solid swims elsewhere too. Dean knocking a healthy chunk off his 100 free PB. Guy, Scott and Litchfield looking good. 200 free should be fun.
Notice Greenbank had 3/4 solid splits in the 200 IM,… Read more »
54/1:02 – 200 Fly! Ouch.
Bah gawd that’s Chad Le Clos’ music!
Very impressed by that performance from Dawson and looking forward to what she will do in the 200 back tomorrow. It’s arguably her weakest event but I think she might still give a strong time.
Also very excited about the M 200 free, W 200 IM and M 100 back tomorrow to see what times can get dropped!