Shortlists have been revealed for the 2024 version of the Aquatics GB Awards happening on Saturday, November sixteenth.
The awards symbolize a celebration of athletes and employees throughout 5 aquatic disciplines, recognizing achievements from this 12 months’s Olympic Video games, Paralympics, World and European Championships and extra on each the senior and junior ranges.
Olympic medalists Adam Peaty, Matt Richards, Ben Proud and Duncan Scott symbolize the nominees throughout the ‘swimming’ class whereas teammates Amelie Blocksidge, Max Morgan and Theodora Taylor are the nominees for ’rising athlete’.
Peaty earned 100m breaststroke silver in Paris whereas Proud captured the identical within the males’s 50m freestyle, his first-ever Olympic medal. Richards and Scott earned respective silvers within the 200m free and 200m IM whereas each made historical past together with James Man and Tom Dean in turning into the first-ever males’s 4x200m free relay to repeat as Olympic champions.
At this summer season’s European Junior Championships in Lithuania, Blocksidge bagged double gold within the women’ 800m and 1500m freestyle occasions. Morgan was a member of the gold medal-winning combined medley relay whereas Theodora Taylor made waves as 200m breast silver and 100m breast bronze medalist.
Moreover, David Hemmings, Ryan Livingstone and Steven Tigg are among the many swimming ‘coach of the 12 months’ shortlist. The latter was most not too long ago appointed the brand new Aquatics GB head coach.
AQUATICS GB AWARDS 2024 NOMINEE SHORTLISTS
ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Inventive Swimming
Kate Shortman, Isabelle Thorpe, Ranjuo Tomblin
Diving
Tom Daley, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, Noah Williams
Para-Swimming
Stephen Clegg, Poppy Maskill, Maisie Summers-Newton, Alice Tai
Swimming
Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott
Water Polo
Katie Brown, Sophie Jackson, Kathy Rogers, Brooke Tafazolli
COACH OF THE YEAR
Inventive Swimming
Paola Basso, Karen Thorpe, Yumiko Tomomatsu
Diving
Jane Figueiredo, Tom Owens, Alex Rochas, Adam Smallwood
Para-Swimming
David Heathcock, Andy Sharp, Mat Trodden
Swimming
David Hemmings, Ryan Livingstone, Steven Tigg
Water Polo
Izzy Howe, Nick Hume, Tom Wall
EMERGING ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Diving
Maisie Bond, Skye Fisher-Eames, Noah Penman
Para-Swimming
William Ellard, Mark Tompsett, Iona Winnifrith
Swimming
Amelie Blocksidge, Max Morgan, Theodora Taylor
