2025 BUCS LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, February 14th – Sunday, February sixteenth
- Ponds Forge Worldwide Swimming Centre, Sheffield, England
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Draft Entries
The 2025 British Universities & Faculties (BUCS) Lengthy Course Championships kick off on Friday with loads of star energy headed to the Ponds Forge Worldwide Swimming Centre. Athletes representing Loughborough, Stirling, Edinburgh and past will dive in over the course of the 3-day affair, vying for workforce factors.
As a refresher, in every occasion, solely the quickest particular person from every establishment will rating factors. Particular person occasions might be scored by 1st place being awarded 20 factors, 2nd place 19 factors, persevering with with a lowering factors scale for subsequently ranked placings within the order of 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, and so on. all the way down to 1 level.
Whereas not a variety meet, this competitors serves as an necessary benchmark forward of the all-important British Swimming Championships on the calendar for April Fifteenth-Twentieth. That meet represents the only qualification alternative for swimmers not already certified for this 12 months’s World Championships.
Per the Aquatics GB choice coverage for Singapore, any particular person Olympic medalist from the 2024 Olympic Video games can have earned a slot on the roster. Moreover, any relay medalist who raced within the Paris ultimate has additionally booked his/her spot on the World Championships relay.
With that standards in thoughts, the next athletes have already been penciled in for Singapore for Nice Britain:
- Ben Proud – males’s 50m free
- Matt Richards – males’s 200m free, males’s 4x200m free relay
- Duncan Scott – males’s 200m IM, males’s 4x200m free relay
- Adam Peaty – males’s 100m breast
- James Man – males’s 4x200m free relay
- Tom Dean – males’s 4x200m free relay
Of the aforementioned, solely James Man is entered in these BUCS Championships, labeled as ‘visitor’. The 29-year-old star is slated to race the 200m and 400m free, the latter of which he raced just lately on the Metropolis of Sheffield meet final month. There he notched a time of three:48.91 in his first efficiency in that distance for the reason that 2018 Commonwealth Video games.
Man earned bronze there in Glasgow in a time of three:45.32 whereas his lifetime greatest stays on the British nationwide report of three:43.75 he established en path to snagging silver on the 2015 World Championships behind champion Solar Yang of China (3:42.58).
Olympians Freya Anderson, Freya Colbert, Laura Stephens and Max Litchfield are additionally amongst these to observe because the motion unfolds this weekend as are College of Florida commits Charlie Hutchison and Alex Cohoon.
Backstrokers Luke Greenbank and Oliver Morgan might be within the pool, as might be Angharad Evans, Jacob Peters and Archie Goodburn.
Search for distance twins, Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen and brother Nathan Wiffen, sprinkled among the many occasions as effectively.
Key Entries for 2025 BUCS LC Championships
Freya Anderson
Kieran Chicken
Lily Booker
Cam Brooker
Greg Butler
Alex Cohoon
Lauren Cox
Freya Colbert
Leah Crisp
Angharad Evans
Conor Ferguson
Kornelia Fiedkiewicz
Josh Gammon
Archie Goodburn
Luke Greenbank
Lucy Grieve
James Man
Lucie Hanquet
Medi Harris
Holly Hibbott
Charlie Hutchison
Evan Jones
Fleur Lewis
Joe Litchfield
Max Litchfield
Keanna MacInnes
Tyler Melbourne-Smith
Ed Mildred
Oliver Morgan
Honey Osrin
Jacob Peters
Leah Schlosshan
Katie Shanahan
Laura Stephens
Jacob Whittle
Daniel Wiffen
Nathan Wiffen
Abbie Wooden
