{"id":583560,"date":"2024-04-05T12:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=583560"},"modified":"2024-04-05T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:39:30","slug":"british-trials-day-4-finals-holly-hibbott-holds-off-amelie-blocksidge-to-win-400-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/british-trials-day-4-finals-holly-hibbott-holds-off-amelie-blocksidge-to-win-400-free\/","title":{"rendered":"British Trials, Day 4 Finals: Holly Hibbott Holds Off Amelie Blocksidge To Win 400 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Trials, Day 4 Finals: Holly Hibbott Holds Off Amelie Blocksidge To Win 400 Free<\/h4>\n

Holly Hibbott<\/strong> held off Amelie Blocksidge<\/strong> – ten years her junior – to claim the 400 free title at the Aquatics Centre in London.<\/p>\n

Hibbott, who trains at Bath Performance Centre, built up a 2.31-sec lead by halfway and although Blocksidge made inroads over the second half of the race, the gap was still 1.34secs at the final turn.<\/p>\n

Blocksidge came back on the last 50 but Hibbott held strong against the youngster to win in 4:11.67 to 4:12.09 with Fleur Lewis<\/strong> third in 4:14.10.<\/p>\n

Hibbott’s winning time was more than six seconds off her 4:05.31 PB she set en-route to Commonwealth silver in 2018 in Glasgow and well outside the QT of 4:04.98.<\/p>\n

Blocksidge added 400 silver to 1500 gold with the 14-year-old setting a British age group record after going 0.42 inside Anne Bochmann’s<\/strong> mark of 4:12.51 from July 2008, a little over eight months before the teenager was born.<\/p>\n

Lucy Fox was fourth in 4:14.30 ahead of Michaella Glenister (4:15.27), Leah Crisp (4:15.88), Megan Barnes (4:16.61) and Jemima Hall (4:17.78).<\/p>\n