Angharad Evans & Abbie Picket Shine On Day Two Of BUCS Championships

Angharad Evans & Abbie Picket Shine On Day Two Of BUCS Championships

Angharad Evans posted a profitable 100m breaststroke time that best she has bettered amongst British swimmers on day two of the BUCS Championships in Sheffield.

Out in 31.21 and again in 34.81, the Stirling swimmer stopped the clock at 1:06.02 for the fifth-fastest time of her occupation, crowned by way of her British report of one:05.54 set on the AP Race London meet in Would possibly 2024.

Most effective Evans – who was once 6th on her Olympic debut in Paris – has long gone sooner in home waters with Molly Renshaw the following swiftest along with her former nationwide same old of one:06.21, now the 6th within the all-time British ratings.

Victory noticed Evans entire the 50/100br double after victory within the one-length race on Friday when she additionally cut up 1:05.49 – the second-fastest by way of a Briton all-time – as Stirling completed moment within the blended medley relay.

Anna Morgan of Edinburgh Napier and Loughborough’s Sienna Robinson shared moment in 1:08.46.

The 3-day BUCS (British Universities and Faculties Recreation) meet at Ponds Forge options many best swimmers who’ve made the go back and forth to Olympic and global podiums. Freya Anderson, Luke Greenbank, Jacob Whittle and Jacob Peters all crowned their respective prelims however as visitor swimmers didn’t development to finals.

Visitor swimmers can on the other hand compete in occasions the place there are warmth declared winners.

Picket In Fantastic Shape

Abbie Picket: Photograph Courtesy: Morgan Harlow, Aquatics GB

Abbie Picket posted the third-fastest 400IM of her occupation in a mystery over 8 lengths within the quickest warmth. Picket and Katie Shanahan became in an equivalent time on the 250 earlier than the previous pulled away to the touch in 4:38.24 for victory by way of greater than 3secs over the Stirling swimmer who posted 4:41.40. Freya Colbert – fourth on the Paris Olympics – was once 1/3 in 4:43.13.

Picket’s profitable time was once a moment off her PB of four:37.25 from the 2017 British Championships and zero.04 outdoor her second-best efficiency of four:38.20 set on the Glasgow Open Meet in June 2021.

Picket – bronze medallist on the short-course worlds in December – had posted the quickest 200IM prelim on Friday however couldn’t development to the general as a visitor swimmer.

Max Litchfield finished the medley double by way of heading the quickest warmth within the 400IM. The 29-year-old – fourth at 3 immediately Olympics – led from the beginning earlier than extending his merit at the freestyle leg to win in 4:19.27, nearly 5 seconds forward of Charlie Hutchison who made it a Loughborough 1-2 in 4:24.25. George Smith of Stirling was once 1/3 in 4:25.64.

Ollie Morgan got here inside 0.01 of his British 100 again report as he scorched to 52.71 on Friday. The College of Birmingham swimmer returned for the 200 the place he loved a transparent victory as the one guy inside of 2mins in 1:57.38. Hendrik van der Leest (Tub) added silver to his 100 bronze in 2:00.65 with Charlie Hutchison claiming his moment medal of the consultation in 2:02.35.

Holly McGill was once 0.23 adrift of Shanahan at midway within the ladies’s 200 again, a deficit she was a nil.14 merit on the ultimate flip earlier than she got here house in 2:09.53. Shanahan received her moment silver of the day in 2:09.78 for a Stirling 1-2 with Honey Osrin of Loughborough 1/3 in 2:10.20.

Wiffen & Crisp Entire Distance Doubles

Daniel Wiffen finished the gap double as he ruled the quickest warmth of the 800 unfastened in 7:52.52. The Olympic champion loved a profitable margin of greater than 9secs forward of Tyler Melbourne-Smith (8:01.69) and Harry Wynne-Jones (8:08.29) to make it a Loughborough blank sweep of the rostrum.

Leah Crisp added the ladies’s 800 name to the 1500 she received on Friday. Crisp, who completed twentieth within the 10k at Paris 2024, overhauled chief Michaella Glenister on the 300m mark and prolonged her lead all through to win in 8:44.29. Glenister (Stirling) upgraded 1500 bronze to silver in 8:50.13 regardless of the short end of Fleur Lewis of Loughborough who touched in 8:50.24.

Daniel Wiffen: Photograph Courtesy: Deepbluemedia

Alex Cohoon – who made his Olympic debut in Paris – led all through to win the 100 unfastened in 49.76 forward of Ed Mildred (49.98) with Jordan Cooley 1/3 in 50.04.

Evie Davis of Stirling received the ladies’s 100 unfastened as she overturned a nil.19 deficit at midway to win in 55.63 forward of Kornelia Fiedkiewicz of Loughborough (55.97) and Tub’s Jemima Corridor (56.06).

Greg Butler of Loughborough upgraded 50br silver to gold over 100m in 1:00.26 forward of Edinburgh’s Archie Goodburn (1:00.66) and Panayiotis Panaretos (1:02.57) of Swansea.

Simply 0.13 separated the primary 3 ladies within the 50 fly with Keanna Macinnes getting the contact in 26.85, 0.08 forward of Ciara Schlosshan of Edinburgh (26.93) with Lucy Grieve making it a Stirling 1-3 in 26.98.

The boys’s similar noticed Josh Gammon experience a transparent win, the Tub swimmer the one guy inside of 24secs in 23.72 with Xi Gong of Loughborough and Stirling’s Brogan Hyde following him house in 24.28 and 24.37 respectively.

Freya Colbert dropped an anchor leg of 53.96 to propel Loughborough to victory within the ladies’s 4×1 unfastened in 3:43.32.

Alexander Cohoon received his moment gold of the day when he anchored Loughborough to victory within the males’s 4×100 unfastened in 3:20.20.