{"id":625549,"date":"2025-10-31T02:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=625549"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:38:16","slug":"mens-4x2-relay-squad-shortlisted-for-aquatics-gb-award-after-adding-world-crown-to-olympic-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mens-4x2-relay-squad-shortlisted-for-aquatics-gb-award-after-adding-world-crown-to-olympic-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s 4&#215;2 Relay Squad Shortlisted For Aquatics GB Award After Adding World Crown To Olympic Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Men&#8217;s 4&#215;2 Relay Squad Shortlisted For Aquatics GB Award After Adding World Crown To Olympic Title<\/h4>\n<p>The men&#8217;s 4&#215;200 free relay that won world gold a year after claiming the Olympic title have been shortlisted for <strong>Athletes of the Year<\/strong> at the Aquatics GB Awards 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Richards, James Guy, Jack McMillan<\/strong> and <strong>Duncan Scott<\/strong> won gold in 6:59.84 at the World Championships in Singapore with Tom Dean and Evan Jones swimming prelims to guide the quartet into lane four for the final. All six men have been nominated for the award with the British men at the forefront of the event with two straight Olympic titles in Tokyo and Paris as well as gold at the 2023 and 2025 worlds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_610061\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-610061\" data-attachment-id=\"610061\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/british-championships-day-1-womens-finals-singapore-slots-up-for-grabs-in-200-free-fly-plus-50-breast\/british-swimming-championships-2025-day-one\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Freya-Colbert7-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 15: during day one of the British Swimming Championships 2025 at the London Aquatics Centre on April 15, 2025 in London, England. 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(Photo by Morgan Harlow\/Getty Images)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Freya-Colbert7-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Freya-Colbert7-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-610061\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Freya-Colbert7-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Freya Colbert\" width=\"258\" height=\"184\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-610061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freya Colbert: Photo Courtesy: Morgan Harlow\/Aquatics GB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Also nominated is <strong>Freya Colbert<\/strong> who lowered <strong>Joanne Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> British 200 free record from 1:55.54 to 1:55.06 en-route to fourth in Singapore. Jackson&#8217;s mark had stood since the 2009 World Championships in Rome. The <strong>Dave Hemmings<\/strong>-trained swimmer also led off the women&#8217;s 4&#215;2 squad that finished fifth while finishing eighth in the 400IM.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the shortlist is <strong>Ollie Morgan<\/strong>, who lowered the British 100 back record to 52.12 as he swept the backstroke events at the national championships in London in April. Morgan then went on to finish fifth in Singapore in 52.37 while leading off the men&#8217;s medley relay that finished sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Four swimmers are shortlisted for the Emerging Athlete of the Year.\u00a0 <strong>Filip Nowacki<\/strong> won the 100\/200 breaststroke double <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/filip-nowacki-wins-double-gold-as-great-britain-tops-medal-table-at-european-juniors\/\">at the European Junior Championships<\/a> with a continental junior mark of 2:08.32 in the latter while his 59.59 PB in the 100 comfortably bettered the British age group record previously held by a certain <strong>Adam Peaty.\u00a0<\/strong>There was also silver in the 50.<\/p>\n<p>The Jersey swimmer followed that up with eight golds at the Island Games before he again completed the 100\/200 double at the world juniors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-junior-championships-day-four-finals-filip-nowacki-edges-shin-ohashi-in-stellar-200-breaststroke-duel-just-misses-british-record\/\">going 2:07.32 in the longer race<\/a> to go within 0.02 of <strong>Ross Murdoch&#8217;s<\/strong> British record of 2:07.30 from the 2014 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacob Mills <\/strong>twice went sub-22 in the 50 free at the British Championships to finish behind <strong>Ben Proud<\/strong>, now departed under a cloud for the Enhanced Games. He went on to compete at the Singapore worlds before winning double silver in the 50 and 100 free at the junior worlds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amalie Smith<\/strong> won the IM double at the European juniors before striking silver in both events at world juniors while <strong>Dean Fearn<\/strong> claimed world and European junior 50 fly titles.<\/p>\n<p>Coach of the Year nominees in swimming are <strong>Ben Higson<\/strong> (University of Stirling), <strong>Ryan Livingstone<\/strong> (Manchester HPC) and <strong>Dave Hemmings<\/strong> (Loughborough).<\/p>\n<p>Results will be announced during a dinner on Saturday 8 November.<\/p>\n<h2 data-block-key=\"1geg1\">Athlete of the Year Nominees<\/h2>\n<p data-block-key=\"1j35\"><b>Artistic Swimming<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-block-key=\"ebnk5\">Ranjuo Tomblin<\/li>\n<li data-block-key=\"2difp\">Isabelle Thorpe<\/li>\n<li data-block-key=\"5o7cr\">Holly Hughes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-block-key=\"6l5hg\"><b>Diving<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li 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