Ollie Morgan Rattles British 100 Again File At BUCS Championships; Wiffen Twins Percentage The Podium

Ollie Morgan Rattles British 100 Again File At BUCS Championships; Wiffen Twins Percentage The Podium

Ollie Morgan got here inside 0.01 of his British 100 again report at the first day of the BUCS (British Universities and Faculty Game) Championships in Sheffield.

Out in 25.64 and again in 27.07 to forestall the clock at 52.71, Morgan used to be only a slither outdoor the nationwide mark of 52.70 he set on the British Olympic trials in April remaining yr the place he break up 25.47/27.23.

The Town of Birmingham swimmer went on to complete 8th in Paris in 52.84 ahead of main off the Nice Britain males’s medley relay in 52.83 because the quartet completed fourth.

Morgan’s time with ease heads the 2025 ratings – albeit we’re best in mid-February – 1.10secs inside of Yohann Ndoye Brouard’s 53.81 from the Euro Meet previous this month.

Tub pair Jack Skerry (55.10) and Hendrik van der Leest (56.15) have been 2nd and 3rd respectively.

The 3-day BUCS meet at Ponds Forge options many best swimmers who’ve made the go back and forth to Olympic and international podiums. James Man (1:47.65) and Freya Anderson (2:00.90) headed their respective 200 loose prelims with Abbie Picket main the best way within the 200IM (2:11.23) whilst Luke Greenbank used to be 2nd within the 100 again in 55.90 however as visitor athletes, the quartet didn’t development to finals.

Wiffen Marks Global Name Anniversary

Daniel Wiffen made historical past precisely a yr in the past these days when he become the primary Irish swimmer to win a medal on the long-course worlds with victory within the 800 loose on the Global Championships in Doha.

Daniel and Nathan Wiffen: Courtesy: Swim Eire

He would cross on to finish the gap double in Qatar ahead of successful 800 gold and 1500 bronze at Paris 2024.

Wiffen withdrew from the short-course worlds in Budapest in December and on Friday, he returned to festival at BUCS within the longest race within the pool.

He led during to move the quickest warmth in 15:03.20, greater than 29secs off his 14:34.07 PB en-route to the sector identify in Doha, forward of dual brother Nathan who used to be greater than 30secs far away in 15:33.73.

Harry Wynne-Jones made it a Loughborough blank sweep of the rostrum in 15:39.37.

Leah Crisp ruled the ladies’s 1500 loose, to win by way of greater than 17 seconds in 16:30.19. Fleur Lewis used to be 2nd in 16:47.30 with Michaella Glenister 3rd in 17:05.50.

Gold And Silver For Colbert

Freya Colbert ended the day with a gold and silver. The Loughborough swimmer – fourth within the 400IM in Paris – began her marketing campaign within the 200 loose the place she led during to win in 1:58.27 forward of Leah Schlosshan (Manchester) who clocked 1:59.57 and Tub’s Jemima Corridor (2:01.14).

Freya Colbert: Photograph Courtesy: Morgan Harlow/British Swimming

Fellow Paris Olympian Katie Shanahan used to be forward from begin to end within the 200IM with the College of Stirling swimmer touching in 2:10.88. Colbert moved into 2nd by way of the midway level the place she stayed so as to add silver in 2:11.87 with Leah Schlosshan additionally reserving any other go back and forth to the BUCS podium in 2:14.93.

Tyler Melbourne-Smith got here from 1.18 in the back of chief Evan Jones on the ultimate flip of the boys’s 200 to take the identify in 1:48.93. Jones, of the College of Stirling used to be 2nd (1:49.14) as he held off Loughborough’s Charlie Hutchison (1:49.29).

Max Litchfield gained the boys’s 2IM in 2:01.48 forward of Loughborough teammate Alexander Casey (2:02.77) as Evan Jones claimed his 2nd medal of the day in 3rd in 2:02.97.

Cox Leads Loughborough 1-3

Lauren Cox led from begin to end within the girls’s 100 again in 1:00.31 with Stirling’s Holly McGill transferring from fourth on the 50 to take 2nd in 1:01.25 adopted by way of Paris Olympian Honey Osrin who made it a Loughborough 1-3 in 1:01.52.

Lucy Grieve pulled away on the second one 50 for a 58.34 victory within the girls’s 100 fly adopted by way of Edinburgh’s Ciara Schlosshan (58.97) with Keanna Macinnes making it a Stirling 1-3 in 59.31.

Lauren Cox: Photograph Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

Ed Mildred, of Manchester Metropolitan College, gained the boys’s identify in 52.53 forward of Tub’s Josh Gammon (52.96) and Brodie Gordon-Gibson (54.19).

Angharad Evans – 6th within the 100m breaststroke in Paris – used to be the one girl inside of 31secs within the 50, touching in 30.98. The College of Stirling swimmer used to be adopted house by way of Anna Morgan, of Edinburgh Napier, in 31.30 and Loughborough’s Sienna Robinson (31.79).

Archie Goodburn gained the boys’s 50m breaststroke in 27.55 adopted by way of Greg Butler (27.79) and Panayiotis Panaretos (28.25).

Cox returned to guide off a Loughborough quartet within the blended medley relay, becoming a member of Butler, Laura Stephens and Alex Cohoon as they claimed victory in 3:48.96.