British Swimming<\/strong> has selected a team of 35 for the European Short-Course Championships<\/strong> next month in Otopeni, Romania, including all the medallists from the Fukuoka worlds.<\/p>\n Matt Richards<\/strong> and Tom Dean<\/strong> – who claimed a historic one-two in the 200 free at the World Championships<\/strong> in July – will be joined by James Guy<\/strong> and Duncan Scott<\/strong> with whom they won the 4×200 free relay in Japan.<\/p>\n Richards makes his European short-course debut while Dean will seek to add to the 400 free silver he won at Glasgow 2019, a year after 200 bronze at the 2022 short-course worlds in Melbourne.<\/p>\n The pair will meet David Popovici<\/strong>, the 2022 double world and European champion and 100 free world record-holder, who’ll be swimming in front of his home fans.<\/p>\n Ben Proud<\/strong>,\u00a0Anna Hopkin<\/strong>, Freya Anderson<\/strong>, Lucy Hope<\/strong>, Lauren Cox<\/strong>, Joe Litchfield<\/strong> and Jacob Whittle<\/strong> – all medallists in July – are also on the team.<\/p>\n Among those not travelling to Romania is Adam Peaty<\/strong>, who will instead compete at the Rotterdam Qualification Meet<\/strong> from 30 November to 3 December,<\/p>\n Athletes were selected based on their performances at international swim meets between 1 May and 30 August as they build towards Paris in 2024.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n British Swimming Head Coach Bill Furniss<\/strong> said:<\/u><\/p>\n \u201cThe European Short Course Championships are a great opportunity for us to assess where the athletes are at come the end of the first training block of Olympic year.<\/u><\/p>\n \u201cThe short-course aspect of the competition will allow us to collect valuable insight into our athletes\u2019 performances and help them focus on developing their starts, turns, and finishing skills. The unique relay opportunities presented to us will also be crucial as we look to build on our ability in this area.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u201cIt will also be a great opportunity to continue building team morale as we build towards the Olympic Games, with the team list combining our more experienced swimmers with some new faces to the senior team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The British Swimming team for the 2023 European Short Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania (5-10 December):<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Jonathon Adam, Bath Performance Centre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Freya Anderson, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Cameron Brooker, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Lewis Burras, Loughborough University<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Gregory Butler, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Imogen Clark, Derby Excel<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Alexander Cohoon, Loughborough University<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Freya Colbert, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Lauren Cox, Loughborough University<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Kathleen Dawson, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Tom Dean, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Archie Goodburn, Edinburgh University<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Luke Greenbank, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n James Guy, Millfield<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Kara Hanlon, Edinburgh University<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Medi Harris, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Lucy Hope, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Anna Hopkin, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Evan Jones, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Emily Large, Millfield<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Joe Litchfield, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Keanna MacInnes, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Jack McMillan, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Edward Mildred, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Oliver Morgan, University of Birmingham<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Jacob Peters, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Ben Proud, University of Bath<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Matthew Richards, Millfield<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Leah Schlosshan, City of Leeds<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Duncan Scott, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Katie Shanahan, University of Stirling<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Laura Stephens, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Jacob Whittle, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Brodie Williams, Bath Performance Centre<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Abbie Wood, Loughborough Performance Centre<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Dean & Matt Richards Among 35 Selected To Britain Squad For European Short-Course Championships British Swimming has selected a team of 35 for the European Short-Course Championships next month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":533218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074],"tags":[128918,130626,26806,55080,26834,55275,25075,128885,17020,93504,77898,120003,66654],"class_list":["post-571982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","tag-2023-european-short-course-championships","tag-2023-world-championships","tag-adam-peaty","tag-anna-hopkin","tag-ben-proud","tag-bill-furniss","tag-british-swimming","tag-david-popovici","tag-duncan-scott","tag-katie-shanahan","tag-lauren-cox","tag-matt-richards","tag-tom-dean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n