Stars lining up for British Gas Swimming Championships

Miley – who won her first long course World Championship medal with 400m Individual Medley silver in Shanghai last summer – is known for her exhausting schedules at national competitions and March’s Champs will be no different with the Scot entering six events.

As well as going for her seventh straight 400m Medley title and her sixth consecutive 200m Medley gold, the Garioch swimmer has entered the 200m Breaststroke, 400m Freestyle and 800m Freestyle.

She will also line up in the 200m Freestyle and will look to secure a spot on the Olympic 4x200m Freestyle relay team, having finished fourth in the same event in 2009 and 2010.

  Hynd has also lined up a busy schedule, entering four events at
  London Aquatics Centre.

  The Swansea HPC swimmer won’t be far off the podium in the 100m
  Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke or 200m Individual Medley but his best
  chance of topping the podium for the first time since 2009 will come
  in the 400m Freestyle – an event in which he is Paralympic
  champion and S8 world record holder.

Other notable entries include:

• IPC world champion Thomas Young (400m Free, 100m Back, 100m Breast, 200m IM)
• Commonwealth champion Robbie Renwick (100m Free, 200m Free, 400m Free)
• Triple Paralympic medallist Claire Cashmore (50m Free, 100m Free, 100m Breast, 100m Fly, 200m IM)
• Double Olympic medallist David Davies (400m Free, 1500m Free, 200m Fly)
• Commonwealth medallist Georgia Davies (100m Back, 200m Back)
• IPC World Championship medallist Natalie Massey (200m Free, 100m Back, 100m Breast)

31st January 2012

World Championship finalists Ellen Gandy and Jemma Lowe will take on British record holder Fran Halsall as all three confirmed their entry in the 100m Butterfly at the British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 (Selection Trials).

The women's 100m Butterfly is shaping up to be one of the events of the week with Gandy, Lowe and Halsall all in the top eight of last year's World Rankings.

Gandy and Lowe have also entered the 200m Fly - an event in which Gandy won silver and Lowe finished seventh at last year's World Championships in Shanghai.

Meanwhile, Halsall will look to defend her titles in the 50m and 100m Freestyle.

A number of Paralympic stars have also confirmed their entries for the Champs with Dave Roberts - who is targeting a record-breaking 12th gold at London 2012 - set to challenge in the 50m and 100m Freestyle.

   Sascha Kindred is hoping to add to his six Paralympic golds in
  London and will look to qualify in the 100m Freestyle, 100m
  Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly and 200m Individual Medley, while
  four-time Paralympic medallist Louise Watkin has lined up her
  usual five events of 50m and 100m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke,
  100m Breaststroke and 200m Individual Medley.

Commonwealth champion James Goddard and world champion Liam Tancock have also added their names to the Champs entry list.

Having struggled with a long-term shoulder injury in recent years, Goddard has dropped the 200m Backstroke from his schedule but will still look to defend his 200m Individual Medley title.

Meanwhile, Tancock will also bid for a fourth straight 100m Backstroke gold and try his chances in the blue riband 100m Freestyle.

An intriguing clash also awaits in the men's 100m Butterfly with both men set to take on the likes of defending champion Michael Rock and Commonwealth silver medallist Antony James for honours.

Other notable entries include:

• Commonwealth silver medallist Michael Jamieson (100m Breast, 200m Breast)
• European champion Lizzie Simmonds (100m Free, 100m Back, 200m Back)
• Paralympic champion Rob Welbourn (100m Free, 400m Free, 200m IM)
• Commonwealth medallist Jazz Carlin (200m Free, 400m Free, 800m Free)
• IPC World champion Dan Pepper (200m Free, 100m Breast)

25th January 2012

Double Paralympic champion Eleanor Simmonds will go for four British titles after confirming her entry at the 2012 British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 (Selection Trials).

The 17-year old won IPC World Championship titles in the 50m, 100m and 400m Freestyle as well as the 200m Individual Medley and will look to qualify in the same four events for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

  World open water champion Keri-anne Payne - who
  has already qualified for the 10km marathon at London
  2012 - has also confirmed her entry at the British Gas
  Swimming Championships.

  The Stockport Metro swimmer will compete in the 200m and 800m
  Freestyle as well as the 200m and 400m Individual Medley events.

Other notable entries include:

• Five-time IPC European Championship medallist Susie Rodgers (MC 50m Free, 100m Free, 400m Free, 100m Back, 50m Fly)
• World Championship finalist Roberto Pavoni (200m Back, 200m Fly, 200m IM, 400m IM)
• European and Commonwealth medallist Joe Roebuck (100m Fly, 200m Fly, 200m IM, 400m IM)
• European Short Course medallist Amy Smith (50m Free, 100m Free, 200m Free)
• Commonwealth medallist Michael Rock (100m Fly, 200m Fly).

19th January 2012

Rebecca Adlington and Heather Frederiksen are two of the biggest names to have confirmed their entry at the British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 (Selection Trials).

Double Olympic champion Adlington has confirmed she will defend her hat-trick of golds from the 2011 British Gas Swimming Championships in the 200m, 400m and 800m Freestyle.

  Meanwhile, Frederiksen - who won a gold, two silvers
  and a bronze at the 2008 Paralympic Games - will line
  up in five events at the London Aquatics Centre.

  The City of Salford swimmer will be competing for the first time since
  2009 and has entered the multi-classification 50m, 100m and 400m
  Freestyle as well as the 100m Backstroke and 200m Individual
  Medley.

Other notable entries include:

• Paralympic silver medallist and world record holder Jonathan Fox (MC 50m Free, 100m Free, 400m Free, 100m Back)
• World Championship finalist Andrew Willis (100m Breast, 200m Breast)
• Paralympic and European champion Liz Johnson (MC 50m Free, 100m Back, 100m Breast, 50m Fly, 200m Medley)
• World record holder and former world champion Gemma Spofforth (100m Free, 100m Back, 200m Back).

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