{"id":629078,"date":"2025-12-16T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=629078"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:39:41","slug":"ed-mildred-tyler-melbourne-smith-down-british-records-from-supersuit-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ed-mildred-tyler-melbourne-smith-down-british-records-from-supersuit-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Mildred Downs British 200 Fly Record From Supersuit Era &#038; Tyler Melbourne-Smith Crushes 800 Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Ed Mildred Downs British 200 Fly Record From Supersuit Era &amp; Tyler Melbourne-Smith Crushes 800 Mark<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/results.swimming.org\/swimming\/results\/2025\/sesc\/\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tyler-melbourne-smith-tops-400-free-rankings-in-time-swifter-than-european-gold\/\">Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/filip-nowacki-posts-his-second-fastest-200-breaststroke-in-short-course-pool-as-golden-year-nears-its-end\/\">Filip Nowacki Posts His Second Fastest 200 Breaststroke In Short Course Pool<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/amalie-smith-sets-400im-european-junior-record-at-swim-england-winter-nationals\/\">Amalie Smith Sets 400IM European Junior Record<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ed Mildred<\/strong> downed the British 200 fly record that had stood since the supersuit era and <strong>Tyler Melbourne-Smith<\/strong> lowered the 800 free mark on the final day of the <strong>Swim England National Winter Championships<\/strong> in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Mildred opened his programme at the four-day short-course meet at Ponds Forge with fourth in the 50 fly (22.79) which he followed up with second over 100m in 50.02.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_486814\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486814\" data-attachment-id=\"486814\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ed-mildred-tyler-melbourne-smith-down-british-records-from-supersuit-era\/edward-mildred-london-roar-isl-by-mike-lewis\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Edward-Mildred-London-Roar-ISL-by-Mike-Lewis-_MZB2177-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;MIKE LEWIS&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Edward Mildred (photo: &lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\\\/\\\/olavistaphotography.com\\\/\\&quot; 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He went top of the 2025 world rankings in the 400 free when he posted a 3:36.09 PB that elevated him to second all-time in the British rankings behind <strong>Duncan Scott.<\/strong> It would have earned him gold at the European s\/c Championships in Lublin, Poland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_628866\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628866\" data-attachment-id=\"628866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tyler-melbourne-smith-tops-400-free-rankings-in-time-swifter-than-european-gold\/british-swimming-championships-2025-day-one-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tyler-Melborne-Smith-1-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;Morgan Harlow&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;British Swimming Championships 2025 - Day One&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1744713545&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2025 Morgan Harlow&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;British Swimming Championships 2025 - Day One&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"British Swimming Championships 2025 &#8211; Day One\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tyler Melbourne-Smith: Photo Courtesy: Morgan Harlow, Aquatics GB&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tyler-Melborne-Smith-1-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tyler-Melborne-Smith-1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-628866\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tyler-Melborne-Smith-1-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"208\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-628866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Melbourne-Smith: Photo Courtesy: Morgan Harlow, Aquatics GB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Loughborough University swimmer returned to the water for the 800. First to turn after 100m in 53.39, the 20-year-old was metronomic thereafter with splits ranging from 28.04 to 28.92.<\/p>\n<p>He came home in 7:33.56 to take 2.7secs off the British record of 7:36.26 that had stood to <strong>Kieran Bird<\/strong> since December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It was a huge PB for Melbourne-Smith whose previous best was 7:40.53 at the 2023 edition of the championships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Hornsey<\/strong> was second in 7:46.48 with open water specialist <strong>Hector Pardoe<\/strong> making it a Loughborough clean sweep in 7:47.22.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne-Smith started his career at the Warriors of Warrington before moving on to the City of Liverpool club and now Loughborough.\u00a0 He won gold in the 400 and 1500 free at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad &amp; Tobago and silver over the shorter distance at the European U23s in Samorin earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll seek to make his Commonwealth Games debut next year in Glasgow as part of Team Wales alongside the likes of two-time Olympic champion <strong>Matt Richards\u00a0<\/strong>following in the slipstream as fellow Welshmen <strong>David Davies<\/strong> and <strong>Dan Jervis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Mildred Downs British 200 Fly Record From Supersuit Era &amp; Tyler Melbourne-Smith Crushes 800 Mark Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold 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