2022 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEET
- Friday, March eleventh – Sunday, March thirteenth
- Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, Scotland
- LCM (50m)
- World Championships & European Championships-Qualifying Occasion
- Entries
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Stay Outcomes
- Stay stream on BBC Sport Scotland web site
The 2022 Edinburgh Worldwide Swim Meet rolled on right now on the Royal Commonwealth Pool with a number of notable performances taking middle stage.
One swift consequence got here within the males’s 50m freestyle, with 27-year-old Ben Proud topping the rostrum at a speedy mark of 21.72.
Proud established himself because the top-seeded swimmer of the morning with an AM swim of 21.94 earlier than slicing one other .22 off to seize the gold. Following swimsuit within the sub-22 zone was Winchester Metropolis’s Lewis Burras, who notched 21.95 within the morning adopted by a silver medal-garnering mark of 21.84 within the night.
Each Proud and Burras rank among the many prime 10 performers of 2022 on this splash n’ sprint occasion, with the British Swimming Championships on the horizon for April.
The pair truly already characterize the highest 2 performers in British swimming historical past, with Proud proudly owning the nationwide document in 21.11 from 2018 whereas Burras posted a private better of 21.79 simply final December.
After snagging silver within the 200m free final evening, multi-Olympic medalist Duncan Scott clinched the 400m IM victory in a time of 4:15.44. Not solely is that mark adequate to situate himself among the many prime 10 performers on this planet the 12 months, however his consequence additionally checks in as a brand new lifetime greatest.
Getting into this Edinburgh Worldwide Swim Meet, versatile Scott’s lifetime greatest rested on the 4:20.39 he registered on the 2019 British Universities & Faculties (BUCS) Championships.
Tonight, splitting as follows, Scott hacked practically 5 strong seconds off of that earlier outing to earn a brand new private greatest. In doing so, Scott additionally now ranks as Nice Britain’s tenth quickest man ever on this LCM 400 IM occasion.
This 400m IM result’s simply additional proof of Scott’s monumental vary on the subject of racing a number of occasions and serving as a menace inside every. The person owns the British nationwide document within the 100m free in 47.87 whereas additionally proudly owning the 200m IM British commonplace in 1:55.28.
Mix that with a 200m free relay better of 1:43.45 and this 400m IM and it’s clear probably the most adorned Scottish Olympian in historical past has a present on the subject of merely getting it carried out within the pool.
Extra Winners:
- Commonwealth Video games champion James Wilby stored Greg Butler at bay, though the pair had been solely separated by lower than half a second within the males’s 100m breast. Wilby notched 1:00.23, whereas Butler was proper there in 1:00.63.
- Swedish ace Louise Hansson of Loughborough crushed a mark of 57.97 to prime the ladies’s 100m fly whereas Greek athlete Andreas Vazaios of Loughborough did the identical within the males’s 200m fly. Vazaios hit 1:58.45 to beat out Bathtub’s James Man who touched in 1:58.90.
- Imogen Clark grabbed gold within the 50m breast in 30.78 and Irish athlete Daniel Wiffen topped the lads’s 800m free in 8:00.55 this night.
