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BBC News
15-04-2025
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- BBC News
Jersey's Nowacki wins bronze at British Championships
Jersey swimmer Filip Nowacki has won his first-ever senior medal at the British Championships after getting a bronze in the 100m 18-year-old, who swims for Millfield School, finished in a personal best time of 1:00.28 to qualify for a place at this year's European Junior race - which did not feature British Olympians Adam Peaty or James Wilby - was won by Loughborough's Gregory Butler in Morgan, 17, was second 0.18 seconds ahead of Nowacki in a time that broke the British age group meet was the first major event since Nowacki was named in the 2025 Aquatics GB world-class won a silver medal at the European Junior Championships in the 200m breaststroke last summer, having became the first Jersey sportsperson to win three Commonwealth Youth Games medals in 2023."I'm really happy with that swim, a massive PB from last summer," Nowacki said after the race."The completion today was amazing," he in the evening Jersey's Sam Sterry came second in the men's junior 400m freestyle. Having swum 3:57.88 to qualify fastest for the final he was just beaten by City of Liverpool's Ethan swan 3:57.76, 0.22 seconds behind the winner, missing the qualification mark for the European Junior Championships by just under 1.5 seconds.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Paris champions among Para-swimmers to receive 2025 funding
Fifteen Paralympic champions are among 36 British swimmers who will receive UK Sport funding for the 2025 season after a superb display in Paris. The Aquatics GB Para-swimming World Class Programme (WCP) helps athletes receive opportunities and targeted financial assistance, as well as access to world-class sports science and sports medicine services. Britain won 18 golds in Paris, seeing them place second in the swimming medal table. Maisie Summers-Newton, Stephen Clegg, Alice Tai and Poppy Maskill - ParalympicsGB's most-decorated athlete in Paris - who claimed multiple titles last summer are among those on the programme. Aquatics GB's lead for Para-swimming, Adam Clarke, said: "We are looking forward to seeing how those athletes thrive at the start of a new Paralympic cycle, with the support of an outstanding staff team around them. "We also have a host of young competitors who enjoyed breakthrough Games in Paris and will be looking to develop over this season." The 2028 Paralympics will take place in Los Angeles between 15 and 27 August 2028.
BBC News
12-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Swimmers to get funding for LA 2028 Paralympics
Fifteen Paralympic champions are among 36 British swimmers who will get some funding from UK Sport after a superb display in Aquatics GB Para-swimming World Class Programme (WCP) helps athletes receive opportunities and targeted financial assistance, as well as access to world-class sports science and sports medicine won 18 golds in Paris, seeing them place second in the swimming medal Summers-Newton, Stephen Clegg, Alice Tai and Poppy Maskill - Paralympics GB's most-decorated athlete in Paris - who claimed multiple titles last summer are among those on the GB's lead for Para-swimming, Adam Clarke, said: "We are looking forward to seeing how those athletes thrive at the start of a new Paralympic cycle, with the support of an outstanding staff team around them."We also have a host of young competitors who enjoyed breakthrough Games in Paris and will be looking to develop over this season."The 2028 Paralympics will take place in Los Angeles between 15 and 27 August 2028.
BBC News
05-03-2025
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- BBC News
Jersey's Nowacki picked for GB world -class swimming squad
Jersey's Filip Nowacki has been named in the 2025 Aquatics GB world-class broke the British age group record for 16-year-olds in the 100m and 200m breaststroke last 17, he won a silver medal at the European Junior Championships over the longer distance last 2023, he became the first Jersey sportsperson to win three Commonwealth Youth Games medals and also took silver at the European Youth Olympics. He has been selected as a Podium Potential athlete, meaning he is thought to have the ability to make the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, which allows him access to top tier coaching from Aquatics GB."It's a great acknowledgement of his performances and his rise up through the British swimming ranks," his coach at Jersey's Tigers Swimming Club coach Nathan Jegou told BBC Sport."That was topped off last year with a medal at the European Juniors."It's validation of all the hard work he's done and also all the hard work that is coming his way - once you get recognised like that you've got to keep those performances up and keep driving forward."Nowacki could feature for Jersey at this summer's Island Games in Orkney as well as next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He regularly returns to the island to train when he is not studying at Millfield School in thinks the 2026 Commonwealth Games would be a great chance to show his talents on the full international stage: "We're blessed in Jersey that we have the Commonwealth Games in 2026, that's a big senior international meet coming our way, hopefully he's part of that Jersey team," he said."This year his main aim is European Juniors and World Juniors again, and if he swims well in the British Championships in April you never know, there might be a senior meet on the horizon with Great Britain as well."He's very level-headed, he knows education's important, he knows family's important and he's very calm and he doesn't need to change that - actually he's better off staying the way he is, not thinking too far ahead and just keep doing what he's doing."
BBC News
05-03-2025
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- BBC News
Peaty omitted from GB's world-class programme for 2025
Six-time Olympic medallist Adam Peaty has not been included in the group of elite swimmers that will be supported by Aquatics GB throughout had been doubts about whether Peaty, 30, would retire after his silver medal at the Paris Olympics last summer, but he told the BBC last year he would take a break over the next two years while still not being selected as one of the 57 swimmers on Aquatics GB world-class programme, Peaty has not announced his remains involved with the British swimming programme but is on an adjusted training schedule after an extended break post-Paris with the next Olympics more than three years who won the first of his three Olympic gold medals at the Rio Games in 2016, posted on Instagram last month that he had "slowly" started building up his fitness and technique in has not publicly committed to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, but has said he will "100%" compete if the 50m breaststroke event is added to the Olympic medalists, including Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Tom Dean and James Guy, have been included in the top-tier Aquatics GB programme which gives access to funding, training and sport science support.
