There will be further opportunities for additional selections to the Great Britain swimming team next month at the European Championships in Budapest, and in June, at an event in Glasgow, as well as the Barcelona and Canet rounds of the Mare Nostrum tour but today, 28 swimmers know they have a ticket to Tokyo: Team GB’s Tokyo 2020 Swimming Squad – Led By Olympic Champion Adam Peaty:
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The baby of the team is Jacob Whittle, just 16 and on a 48-point 100m freestyle as the fourth man home at the fastest 100m free race ever seen in Britain – and on to the 4x100m freestyle relay The British Olympic Association (BOA) today confirmed 24 additional swimmers who will represent Team GB at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after last week’s British Swimming Selection Trials.Īgainst a backdrop of fan predictions of Britain of 10 medals, a tally that would constitute the most successful Games in history for the national swimming team all the way back to 1896, Mark England, Team GB Chef de Mission, said he believed the 28 selected swimmers, including the four pre-selected in January, Adam Peaty, James Wilby, Luke Greenbank and Duncan Scott, represented “the strongest Olympic swimming team we’ve ever selected … we expect great things”. Adam Peaty has held a ticket to the defence of his Olympic 100m breaststroke crown since pre-selection back in January but today he was able to raise the Union Flag as standard bearer for a Great Britain team of 28 swimmers named for the Covid-delayed Tokyo 2020 Games.
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