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BBC News
17-04-2025
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Nowacki savours 'amazing' British Championships success
Filip Nowacki says it feels "amazing" to have won two medals at the British Swimming 17-year-old from Jersey broke his personal best to win bronze in the 50m and 100m breaststroke at the London Aquatic taken a medal in the longer event on Tuesday night he returned 24 hours later to get a medal in the shorter event despite qualifying fifth-fastest as he overcame a difficult start to post a time of 27.87. "I feel amazing," Nowacki told BBC Sport."To be able to race against the best people in the country and come out with a with a bronze in the 100m and a bronze in the 50m is something special."It really goes to show that hard work pays off."The 100m was good, a massive PB and the 50m again a massive PB, and I think it's given me a bit of confidence going forward into 200m on Saturday." Nowacki's first senior medals cap an excellent few years for the Millfield School 2024 he broke the British age-group record for 16-year-olds in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and won a silver medal at the European Junior Championships over the longer came after he became the first Jersey sportsperson to win three Commonwealth Youth Games medals, in Trinidad and Tobago in 2023, before following that up with a silver medal at the European Youth has led to him being selected as a Team GB Podium Potential athlete, meaning he is thought to have the ability to make the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles."It really goes to show that anything can be done if you really put your mind to it," he said of his selection for the Team GB programme. "I was really happy, having gained that support that I now get."I get specialist nutritionists that help me and guide me through what I need to eat and what I need to intake every day to make sure I become the best athlete I can, along with psychologists and physios as well."Nowacki's next focus is the European Junior Championships in July, followed by representing Jersey at the Island Games for the first time."In 2023 I was really gutted that I couldn't go because I had a different competition that clashed with it and I had to pick the other one," he said. "It's very important. I've only really represented Jersey once in Trinidad and Tobago and I'm really looking forward to representing Jersey again at the Island Games."
BBC News
15-04-2025
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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.
BBC News
05-03-2025
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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."
