{"id":583659,"date":"2024-04-06T12:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=583659"},"modified":"2024-04-06T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:54:57","slug":"british-trials-day-5-finals-james-wilby-holds-off-greg-butler-for-200-breaststroke-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/british-trials-day-5-finals-james-wilby-holds-off-greg-butler-for-200-breaststroke-title\/","title":{"rendered":"British Trials, Day 5 Finals: James Wilby Holds Off Greg Butler For 200 Breaststroke Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Trials, Day 5 Finals: James Wilby Holds Off Greg Butler For 200 Breaststroke Title<\/h4>\n

James Wilby<\/strong> held off Greg Butler<\/strong> to win the 200m breaststroke but was outside the cut for Paris 2024 at the Aquatics Centre.<\/p>\n

The 2022 European champion went stroke for stroke with Loughborough teammate Butler down the final 50 before moving ahead to stop the clock in 2:10.03 to 2:10.48 with George Smith<\/strong> third in 2:12.79.<\/p>\n

It was, however, 1.08secs outside the Olympic qualification time and it remains to be seen whether he’ll be given a wildcard at the discretion of selectors.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old, who swam the prelims of the men’s medley relay in Tokyo before being replaced in the final by Adam Peaty<\/strong> as the Great Britain quartet won silver, has a fine track record at major competition, with world, European and Commonwealth titles to his name.<\/p>\n

He was just 0.02 outside the cut for the 100 earlier in the week, won by Peaty in 57.94.<\/p>\n

Archie Goodburn<\/strong> (2:13.64) was fourth followed by Max Morgan<\/strong> who set an age group record of 2:13.88, Rory Dickson<\/strong> (2:14.23), Maxwell Anderson<\/strong> (2:16.04) and Harvey Freeman<\/strong> (2:17.04).<\/p>\n