Reigning Commonwealth Games champions Jazz Carlin and Georgia Davies might be missing, but there will still be a big Welsh contingent of Gold Coast-bound swimmers at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet starting on Thursday (1 March).
The event incorporates 32 British Swimming Championship titles and will give the athletes a chance to hone their race skills ahead of April’s Commonwealth Games. There will be plenty of world class swimmers in action.
Spain’s Olympic champion Mireia Belmonte and a strong German team, including Olympian’s Lisa Graf, Christian Diener and Damian Wierling, will be joining some of the best of British in Olympic and world champion Adam Peaty, world champion James Guy and Olympic medallist Siobhan-Marie O’Connor.
Bronze medallists from Glasgow four years ago, Calum Jarvis and Dan Jervis, will head the Welsh challenge, while Alys Thomas will use the event to warm up for her third trip with Team Wales. Bethan Sloan is the only other one of the 11-strong Welsh swimming squad not taking part.
Junior swimmers from across Great Britain will also be vying for selection to this summer’s European Junior Championships in Helsinki.
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— 7 News Gold Coast (@7NewsGoldCoast) February 26, 2018
Welsh Commonwealth Games Swimmers in Edinburgh
Thursday, 1 March
Women’s 100m butterfly – Alys Thomas / Harriet West
Men’s 100m freestyle – Calum Jarvis
Women’s 200m freestyle – Kathryn Greenslade / Ellena Jones
Men’s 50m backstroke – Xavier Castelli
Men’s 1500m freestyle – Dan Jervis
Friday, 2 March
Men’s 400m freestyle – Dan Jervis
Women’s 100m backstroke – Harriet West
Men’s 100m backstroke – Xavier Castelli
Women’s 200m backstroke – Kathryn Greenslade
Women’s 50m freestyle – Chloe Tutton
Men’s 50m butterfly – Calum Jarvis
Women’s 800m freestyle – Ellena Jones
Women’s 100m breaststroke – Chloe Tutton
Saturday, 3 March
Women’s 400m freestyle – Ellena Jones
Men’s 200m IM – Xavier Castelli
Men’s 200m backstroke – Xavier Castelli
Women’s 200m breaststroke – Chloe Tutton
Women’s 50m butterfly – Alys Thomas
Women’s 100m backstroke – Harriet West / Kathryn Greenslade
Sunday, 4 March
Women’s 100m freestyle – Chloe Tutton / Kathryn Greenslade
Men’s 200m freestyle – Calum Jarvis / Xavier Castelli
Women’s 50m breaststroke – Chloe Tutton
Women’s 200m butterfly – Alys Thomas