{"id":616686,"date":"2025-07-10T07:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=616686"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:12:32","slug":"james-guy-gets-200-free-berth-at-world-championships-duncan-scott-has-sole-individual-focus-on-200im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/james-guy-gets-200-free-berth-at-world-championships-duncan-scott-has-sole-individual-focus-on-200im\/","title":{"rendered":"James Guy Gets 200 Free Berth At World Championships; Duncan Scott Has Sole Individual Focus On 200IM"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Guy Gets 200 Free Berth At World Championships; Duncan Scott Has Sole Individual Focus On 200IM<\/h4>\n

James Guy<\/strong> will swim the individual 200 free at the upcoming World Championships, 10 years after claiming the global title at Kazan 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Duncan Scott & James Guy: Photo Courtesy: Morgan Harlow, Aquatics GB<\/p><\/div>\n

The three-time Olympic relay champion shared the title with Duncan Scott<\/strong><\/a> in 1:45.08 at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships<\/strong> in London in April and it was unclear who would join Matt Richards<\/strong> – preselected thanks to his silver in Paris – in the event in Singapore<\/p>\n

However, it appears that Guy has been given the green light for the four-length event with World Aquatics having loaded the entries on the website. It will be Guy’s sole individual outing in Singapore despite his return to the 400 free this year.<\/p>\n

Scott will focus on the 200IM in which he’s a two-time Olympic silver medallist, two years after he finished second behind Leon Marchand<\/strong> in Fukuoka. Tom Dean<\/strong> the Tokyo 200 free champion – will also contest the short medley despite saying at trials that he would concentrate on the relays.<\/p>\n

Scott, Guy, Dean and Richards will also join forces for the 4×2 as the winning quartet reunite once more, two years after claiming the title at the 2023 edition a year after their historic victory at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Guy won the 200 free at the 2015 worlds ahead of Sun Yang<\/strong> and Paul Biedermann<\/strong> in a then British record of 1:45.14 and his PB lasted until Paris 2024<\/a> where he lowered it to 1:45.04 on the leadoff in the 4×2 prelims.<\/p>\n

He returned for the 4×2, where he replaced Scott on the anchor leg, to steer the Great Britain quartet home as they claimed their first world title in the event.<\/p>\n