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Aquatics GB Selection Policy: Singapore 2025
Aquatics GB has released selection criteria for the Singapore 2025 World Swimming Championships, with a nod toward Paris 2024 success.
Propulsion Swimming
December 18, 2024
The Aquatics GB selection criteria for the Singapore 2025 World Championships has been quietly released off the back of the 2024 World Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest.
The selection criteria prioritises Olympic performance, specifically medallists in individual events and those who were part of a medal winning team in the event final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, alongside the winners of Olympic events at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025.
Before any swimming has started in 2025, 6 British swimmers can already start packing bags for Singapore, albeit it remains to be seen if Adam Peaty will be one of those 6.
Key Selection Criteria
A team of maximum 30 swimmers will get the opportunity to represent Aquatics GB in Singapore with the key performance objective of ‘maximising medal outcomes and provide international championship race experience for athletes on a trajectory for a podium performance at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.’
Subject to the confirmation of Aquatics GB Head coach, Steve Tigg, all Olympic individual medallists are pre-selection for the event in which they medal. Along with the members of a medal winning relay team that completed the event final in Paris.
4.2 Medallists in an individual event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will be selected for this event for the 2025 World Championship team, subject to confirmation from the GB Head Coach.
4.3 Relay medallists who competed as part of the team in the event final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will be selected subject to confirmation from the GB Head Coach. Athletes selected via this clause will be selected for a relay team only, subject to confirmation from the GB Head Coach.
Based on those criteria, 6 swimmers should be Pre-selected for Aquatics GB, and 4 events already have one spot of the maximum 2 athletes per individual event already selected.
Matt Richards - 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Duncan Scott - 200m IM, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Ben Proud - 50m Freestyle
Adam Peaty - 100m Breaststroke
Tom Dean - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
James Guy - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Essentially this means there could only be one spot available for individual selection in the sort after Men’s 200m Freestyle.
For the majority of swimmers their chance for selection will come at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships in London, 15th April - 20th April 2025, and there is a simple rule to follow.
Win an Olympic Event. Hit the Consideration time (see below).
Swim at Singapore 2025.
4.4 All athletes, on the basis of their performance in the Open Final of an Olympic event at the 2025 British Swimming Championships (15th -20th April 2025) will be selected if they: (i) finish first in an Olympic event; and (ii) record a time that equals or betters the time in Table 1.
If you finish second in an Olympic event and hit the consideration time, providing a pre-selected athlete hasn’t already taken up that spot, then you will be considered for selection.
4.5 Athletes that finish second in the Open Final of an Olympic event in a time equal to or better than the time listed in Table 1 will be considered for selection, provided that there is space in that event, subject to clauses 3.2, 4.2 and 4.4
Further selection processes are set out in the full Selection Policy HERE
It’s also worth noting, there is no selection criteria for ‘non-Olympic’, i.e. 50m Butterfly, 50m Breaststroke, 50m Backstroke, so logically the only way you can represent Aquatics GB in these events at the Singapore World Championships will be through securing selection in an Olympic event.
Consideration Times
Female | Event | Male |
|---|---|---|
24.61 | 50m Freestyle | 21.88 |
53.55 | 100m Freestyle | 48.06 |
1:56.65 | 200m Freestyle | 1:45.96 |
4:04.98 | 400m Freestyle | 3:45.43 |
8:25.84 | 800m Freestyle | 7:47.80 |
16:02.39 | 1500m Freestyle | 14:54.29 |
59.46 | 100m Backstroke | 53.20 |
2:08.68 | 200m Backstroke | 1:57.28 |
1:06.31 | 100m Breaststroke | 59.65 |
2:23.04 | 200m Breaststroke | 2:09.55 |
57.20 | 100m Butterfly | 51.35 |
2:07.96 | 200m Butterfly | 1:54.97 |
2:10.62 | 200m IM | 1:57.18 |
4:37.84 | 400m IM | 4:11.90 |
3:36.40 | 4 × 100m Freestyle Relay | 3:13.04 |
7:51.89 | 4 × 200m Freestyle Relay | 7:06.34 |
3:56.89 | 4 × 100m Medley Relay | 3:33.15 |
4 × 100m Mixed Medley | ||
3:44.10 |
Comparing the Aquatics GB consideration times for the 2025 World Championships in Singapore to the Paris 2024 Olympic Nomination standards, many events stay exactly the same.
The biggest time drops in individual events come in the 100m Backstroke and the Men’s Butterfly event, whereas the Men’s Breaststroke events seem more lenient than than previous year, perhaps reflecting on the slower nature of male breaststroke in the Paris Olympic Pool.
Olympic Nomination Times Comparison
Female | Event | Male |
|---|---|---|
- 0.04 | 50m Freestyle | 0 |
0 | 100m Freestyle | 0 |
- 0.20 | 200m Freestyle | 0 |
0 | 400m Freestyle | 0 |
0 | 800m Freestyle | 0 |
+ 0.44 | 1500m Freestyle | 0 |
- 0.43 | 100m Backstroke | - 0.48 |
- 0.23 | 200m Backstroke | 0 |
0 | 100m Breaststroke | + 0.20 |
0 | 200m Breaststroke | + 0.60 |
+ 0.03 | 100m Butterfly | - 0.21 |
0 | 200m Butterfly | - 0.31 |
0 | 200m IM | 0 |
0 | 400m IM | 0 |
0 | 4 × 100m Freestyle Relay | 0 |
0 | 4 × 200m Freestyle Relay | - 1.06 |
0 | 4 × 100m Medley Relay | 0 |
4 × 100m Mixed Medley | ||
0 |
Tickets now on sale
The Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025 are set to be a pivotal event, with athletes vying for selection to the World Championships in Singapore and the opportunity to begin the next Olympic cycle on a high note. Tickets are now available for purchase through the Aquatics GB website.
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