By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
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) London Aquatics Centre European Championships Selection Policy SwimSwam Preview Meet Central Entries Prelims Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Finals Recaps: Day 1| Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Start Lists/Live Results LivestreamGreat Britain’s men have flashed depth across all four 100s so far this week at the Aquatics GB Championships. They have had at least two swimmers under the European Championships qualification time in all four, albeit only in the heats in both the 100 free and 100 back.
Nevertheless, the men’s medley relay team looks on the rise again, and will be looking ahead to the LA Olympics with anticipation. All four of the title winners this year were repeat champions, three of them winning the event in both 2025 and 2026, but at least one of the top two finishers in each will be 25 or younger in LA.
The combined total of the four winners was 3:29.95, which is the fastest in history from a British Championships. The previous best was 3:30.19 from 2024, where Adam Peaty was 57.94 in the 100 breaststroke – over a second faster than the 58.97 he swam this year.
The winning times this year are among the most competitive ever – the fastest in history on fly and free, the second-fastest on backstroke, and seventh-fastest on breaststroke. However, it is the depth they have in each stroke, and the fact that most of their stars look to be improving, that makes them one to watch looking ahead to LA.
British Championships Winning Time, Men’s 100m Events 2010-2026
Back
Ollie Morgan has given Britain the backstroker they have needed for years. He is consistently 52-point now, winning the title in 2025 in 52.12 and touching first this year in 52.41, his 3rd-fastest swim ever. He swam 52.37 in the final at last year’s World Championships, placing 5th, and led off the medley relay in 52.74.
If he can get down near his best in relays, which seem to have a habit of being a little slower for male backstrokers, whoever is on breaststroke will dive in almost level with Italy, Russia, and France. If he drops any more time from his British record, they may even be in front.
He will be 25 in LA – prime years for a male swimmer – and is only getting better. Now training full time after graduating from the University of Birmingham, Morgan gives Britain the thing they did not have when this relay looked potentially world-beating in Tokyo. If they miss the podium in LA, it certainly will not be because of him.
He may be able to rest up for the final as well. Matt Ward set a new Scottish record of 53.29 in the heats, while Jack Skerry was 53.35 last week and Cam Brooker was 53.6 for the second year in a row. Both of the latter two set best times in the 50, and certainly look capable of 53-low in the next couple of years. The Bath backstroke group is developing well, and at least one of them should be in line to act as Morgan’s understudy at the Olympics.
Jonny Marshall is a bit of a wildcard, missing the Championships this year and being two years removed from his PB of 53.03. If he returns to form he will be another challenger for that second spot, and a swimmer who is 43.22 in yards certainly has the potential to be 52-point in long course.
In terms of wildcards, David Annis dropped a second from his best to go 54.25 and has dropped nearly three seconds this season. Patrick Przyczyna has been tearing up the junior age group records this week and was 54.92 in the junior final. At just 15 years old, LA could be one cycle too soon.
Breast
Peaty is the headline act here, and has made it his stated intention to be a part of this relay in LA in two years time. He was 58.97 this week for his 62nd sub-59 swim, and should not be counted out of still being one of the world’s best in the 100 breast in his age-33 season.
How Peaty progresses through the rest of the season will give an indication of what we can expect at the Olympics, but he should be a relatively known quantity. Being 58-low/57-high would be massive, and it is unlikely that either Filip Nowacki or Max Morgan – or, for that matter, many other swimmers in the world – will be quite at that level.
However, if age does take its toll on Peaty there are a pair of 18-year-olds who should be ready to step up to take his place. Filip Nowacki is the reigning world junior champion and holds a best of 59.20, while Max Morgan took bronze at the World Junior Championships last summer in 59.93. Nowacki was 59.39 this week while Morgan set a new best of 59.56, and both are rapidly improving – Morgan is half a second faster than this time last year, Nowacki nearly a full second.
Nowacki especially looks likely to kick on, with an elite 200 to go with his 100 speed. He split 58.83 at World Juniors last summer, and both he and Morgan will be ones to keep an eye on this summer. They will lock horns at the Commonwealth Games, Nowacki for Jersey and Morgan for England, where they both have a great chance at a medal.
Greg Butler should not be discounted either, owning a PB of 59.53 from last summer and having split 59.11 in the 4×100 medley relay final at the World Championships. What is important though, is that this relay will not live and die by Peaty.
Fly
Ed Mildred swam the 5th-fastest time in British history to take the win in the 100 fly this week, with only James Guy having ever swum faster. Mildred’s 51.02 here was 0.06 seconds faster than his split in the 4×100 medley relay final at the World Championships last summer, a competition where he was 51.36 individually.
His winning time at this meet 12 months ago however was 51.80, 0.78 seconds slower than he was this week. He has been 51.7 or better on five occasions so far this season already, and set a huge lifetime best of 1:55.03 in the 200 fly on day 2. After his huge drops in short course earlier this season, swimming 50.02/1:50.64 in December, he is on a steep improvement curve.
It was not a guarantee that Mildred would cement a spot in the senior ranks. He was a prolific junior, winning the 200 free in 1:49.33 and placing 2nd in the 200 fly in 1:58.64 at the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2019 at the age of 16, but failed to kick on initially in those two events. One look at the swimmers he was in competition with in Baku in the summer of 2019 – he beat David Popovici in the 200 free by 1.60 seconds, and was 0.62 seconds behind Ilya Borodin in the 200 fly – illustrates the company he had shared.
He did win silver at the 2021 European Junior Championships behind Popovici in 2021 in a time of 48.77, but that still stands as his PB. Moving to focus on fly full time, as well as a switch of training center from Bath to the newly-formed Manchester group, has proved inspired. He was 2nd in the 200 fly in a two second PB at this meet last year, and then made the semi-finals in both the 100 fly and 200 fly last summer.
He could be a threat for the individual final in the 100 come LA, and gives Britain a weapon on what was proving a problem leg for them. Duncan Scott swam the fly in the medley relay final in Paris, splitting 51.30, but he is not a sprint fly swimmer and was nearly two seconds behind Maxime Grousset and Caeleb Dressel‘s splits.
The return to form of Jacob Peters is a welcome sight as well. Having missed a spot on the Olympic team after a brutal final 25 meters at the 2024 British Championships to finish 3rd in 51.88, he placed 3rd again last year in 51.91. His finals time this week, a 51.34, is his second fastest swim ever, and would have made the semi-finals at the World Championships last year.
Nick Finch set a lifetime best of 52.04 for 4th, while fellow NCAA swimmer Jack Brown was just off the 51.87 he swam last year with a 52.21 for 5th. Lewis Fraser set a Welsh record in 51.81, and will only be 28 at LA. With World Junior silver medalist Dean Fearn having a PB of 52.33, there could be a real battle for the two spots available in two years’ time.
Free
Duncan Scott is always an option on this leg, and has been a reliable option when called upon, but Matt Richards is first choice and showed why with swims of 47.61 and 47.53. He set the British record of 47.45 back in 2023, but was only 47.84 in 2024, before somewhat surprisingly making the world final last year in 47.59.
His two swims this week were his 6th- and 3rd-fastest ever, and this marks just the third meet where he has been under 48 seconds on more than one occasion. He will be 26 in LA, and should be a reliable anchor leg – his best-ever split is 46.89.
Jacob Mills was 47.72 in the heats this week, setting a new lifetime best to lower the 47.74 he swam in the semi-finals of the World Junior Championships last summer. He added in the final here to touch in 48.09, as he did at those World Junior Championships, and once he learns how to hit his best in finals will be a problem at international level.
However, he had multiple 47-point splits in Otopeni last August, and is another great depth piece, especially at just 18 years old. Gabe Shepherd, who was 48.43 here but has been lightning on international relays at junior level, is the same age, as are Rio Daodu (48.66) and Aran Bisset (48.87), both of whom set big lifetime bests this week.
Alex Painter (48.44), James Guy (48.38), Jack McMillan (48.37), Alex Cohoon (48.20), and Jacob Whittle (48.03) could all also be options. There is a ton of depth on this leg, and most importantly emerging depth from the junior ranks – Jensen Norris (49.50) and Harry Milne (49.73) are also sub-50 juniors.
Not every one of these swimmers has to turn into a world-beater. In fact, this leg still looks more than solid for an international final as is. But there are a lot of swimmers in contention here to make it a special one.
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