The moment is nearly upon us for the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships to dive into action at the London Aquatics Centre, with six packed days set to unfold from tomorrow (Tuesday 15th April).
A host of Olympic and Paralympic champions including Duncan Scott, Alice Tai, Matt Richards and Poppy Maskill are among more than 1,000 athletes who will be racing across a fully-integrated swimming and para-swimming programme, with national titles and selection to the teams for this summer's respective World Aquatics Championships and Para Swimming World Championships, both in Singapore, up for grabs.
The para-swimming races will be contested in a multi-classification format, with athletes' race time earning them points in relation to their specific classification.
HOW TO WATCH
Fans can benefit from multi-platform coverage of this year's Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, with every finals session broadcast live from 6.45pm across BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, as well as live coverage of heats (9.30am) and finals (6pm onwards) on the Aquatics GB YouTube channel.
The Aquatics GB social media channels will provide exclusive behind-the-scenes content throughout the meet - and you can still be in the London Aquatics Centre stands yourself, with limited tickets still available here.
Whether watching in person or online, the event will feature racing of the highest quality at the flagship event in British swimming, as athletes aim for wins, personal best performances and consideration times that will see them on to World Championship selection.
The full swimming selection policy for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships is available here - with swimmers securing their selection if they win an event and swim inside that specific event's consideration time - with the para-swimming selection policy for the World Championships available here in regular and large font and audio versions. Multiple junior representative teams will also be selected off the back of this meet, including that competing at June's European Aquatics Under-23 Swimming Championships in Slovakia.
WHAT'S ON WHEN?
Full results, start lists and schedules are available on the Swimming Results website.
Everything begins on Tuesday with the Women's 50m Breaststroke, the event taking on new relevance following the recent announcement that all 50m events will be part of the Olympic programme at LA 2028. That day's action also includes what looks to be an intriguing Men's 400m Freestyle, the prospect of a new, young champion in the Men's 100m Breaststroke, a Women's 200m Butterfly contest that served up a thrilling finale in 2024 and a Women's 200m Freestyle event that could see show-stoppers in both the para-swimming and open finals.
The Women's 100m Backstroke contests close out Wednesday's action and are not likely to disappoint, as Paralympic champion duo Maskill and Tai go head-to-head, among others, while the Olympic discipline victor could come from so many different lanes given the athletes in contention - and there is also the Men's and Women's 400m Individual Medley double, when our most versatile athletes test themselves.
Thursday's closer is the Men's 100m Freestyle, one of the most stacked events on the programme, as well as the Men's 100m Backstroke - where Oliver Morgan will look to again break the British record in this pool - and a Women's 50m Freestyle finale that looks set to showcase the future of female sprinting in this country, with so many young athletes leading the way on entry times.
Two 50m stroke events kickstart Friday's proceedings in the form of the Men's 50m Backstroke and Women's 50m Butterfly, while the Women's 200m Backstroke promises another close finish, while 2024 Olympic silver medallist Ben Proud will be the one to watch in Saturday's Men's 50m Freestyle showpiece.
Sunday night then promises a blockbuster finish, with a host of Paralympic medallists - including Rebecca Redfern, Brock Whiston and 14-year-old Iona Winnifrith - doing battle in the Women's MC 100m Breaststroke, an eye-catching Women's 100m Freestyle field in there and then the usual curtain call of the Men's 200m Freestyle, when five of the athletes who teamed up for Olympic gold in the Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay in Paris - Scott, Richards, Guy, Jack McMillan and Kieran Bird - will look to play their part in another thriller.
Limited tickets are still available across the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships through SEE Tickets
