2024 AQUATICS GB SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, July 20th – Friday, July 26th
- Ponds Forge, Sheffield, England
- LCM (50m)
- Live Results
While the top-tier British swimmers are heading to Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games, a strong contingent is competing at this week’s Aquatics GB Summer Championships in Sheffield.
The competition kicked off last night with heats of the 1500m free, with the championships spanning a thrilling 7 days to the lead-up of aquatics action in Paris.
Right off the bat at Ponds Forge, 16-year-old Max Morgan fired off a lifetime best of 1:00.10 in his age category’s final of the 100m breaststroke.
Morgan of Reed’s Swim Club opened in 28.46 and closed in 31.64 to beat the field by nearly 3 seconds en route to lowering his own British Age Record in the event.
Entering this competition, Morgan’s PB and Age Record stood at the 1:00.83 put up at this year’s Aquatics GB Olympic Trials.
He then placed 6th in the event at this year’s European Junior Championships in 1:01.61. Two weeks later, he has hacked a second-and-a-half to check in with tonight’s 1:00.10.
Morgan’s outing now renders swimmer 12th among all-time junior 100m breaststroke worldwide, at just 16 years of age.
The breaststroke future looks bright for Great Britain after the legacy of Adam Peaty who will try for a triple-peat of his 100m breast title at this year’s Olympic Games.
Additional Notes
- 19-year-old Tyler Melbourne-Smith of Loughborough topped the men’s open 200m free, registering a time of 1:47.54 for a monster new lifetime best. His previous PB rested at the 1:49.63 he logged in the heats at this year’s Olympic Trials. He’s now GBR’s 21st-best 200m freestyler in history.
- National champion, Olympic qualifier and European Junior Championships multi-gold medalist Amelie Blocksidge has seemingly not stopped racing, competing again here with Paris on the horizon. The 15-year-old Salford ace clocked a time of 4:17.17 to win the 400m freestyle this evening.
- A multi-medalist at this year’s European Junior Championships, 15-year-old Theodora Taylor clocked a time of 31.89 to win her age group’s 50m breast, getting under the 32-second barrier for her first time ever.
- National record holder Imogen Clark won the open women’s 50mb breast, notching 30.32 as a performance just outside the top 10 times of her career.
Morgan just went 27:52 in the 50 final. To put that into perspective, Adam Peaty’s age group record for 18 year olds is 27:58. Morgan is 16 years old!
Broke the 50m record in the heats today too: 27.68
And again quicker than the 17 year old age group record at the same time
It’s worth noting that Morgan’s time is also quicker than the 17 year old age group record now in this event!
Where do you find the all time junior lists ?
Nuoto has a list and they’re usually pretty accurate
junior_all_time_m.pdf (nuotomondiale.altervista.org)
1:47.5 and a 2 second PB for Melbourne Smith, if he can find another second by trials next year then he can definitely make our 4×2 for Worlds. Certainly seems like his future is in the 200/400 not the 800/1500 that he also swims.
Peaty’s heir
I know the kids go crazy sometimes but 1.04.5 to almost breaking a minute in one season is difficult to fathom. A pretty insane day all round for 16 year old British breaststrokers, as Filip Nowacki swam 1.01.13 in a separate race – That would have broken the pre-Morgan age mark by almost a second. Adam Bradley then also went top 5 all time in the age group, and Daniel Ransom went top 10 all-time.