2019 BRITISH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, April 16th – Sunday, April 21st
- Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
- Prelims at 10am local (5am Eastern)/Finals at 6:30pm local (1:30pm Eastern)
- SwimSwam Selection Analysis
- SwimSwam Elite Men Preview/SwimSwam Elite Women Preview
- SwimSwam Emerging Women Preview/SwimSwam Emerging Men Preview
- Final Start Lists
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap/Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap/Day 4 Finals Recap
- Day 5 Prelims Recap/Day 5 Finals Recap
- Day 6 Prelims Recap/Day 6 Finals Recap
- Live Results
While competing on the final day of the 2019 British Championships, Luke Greenbank brought the house down with a dominating performance in the men’s 200m backstroke.
Entering these championships, Greenbank’s personal best in this event stood at the 1:56.89 he logged way back at the 2015 European Games in Baku for gold at that inaugural meet.
Flash forward to this morning and Greenbank produced a mark of 1:57.51 to be within striking distance of that aforementioned mark, as well as the 1:56.23 minimum consideration time for this summer’s World Championships.
Tonight the 21-year-old Loughborough athlete took things to an entirely new level, entering 1:55 territory for the first time in his career. The Mel Marshall-trained racer crushed a mark of 1:55.89 to dip under the consideration time and fall within .25 off of the automatic selection mark.
Winning by 2 body lengths, Greenbank now ranks as the 4th fastest swimmer in the world this year. For perspective of how on-fire this swim was for Lukebank, his time also blows away the 1:57.43 4th place time the logged on the Gold Coast at last year’s Commonwealth Games, as well as the 1:58.84 he produced at last year’s European Championships.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 200 BACK
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1.53.40
| 2 | Ryan MURPHY | USA | 1.54.12 | 07/26 |
| 3 | Mitchell LARKIN | AUS | 1.55.03 | 06/13 |
| 4 | Jiayu XU | CHN | 1.55.24 | 04/27 |
| 5 | Austin KATZ | USA | 1.55.57 | 07/08 |
Also with this swim, Greenbank now checks-in as the 3rd fastest British swimmer ever and the quickest in almost 6 years. His time tonight outperforms the now-retired 2016 Olympian Christopher Walker-Hebborn, who never made it into the 1:55 realm himself.
| Rank | Name | Ranked Club | YoB | Meet Name | Venue | Level | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Goddard | Romiley Mari | 83 | Commonwealth Games 2010 | Delhi, India | 1 | 06/10/10 | 1:55.58 |
| 2 | Craig McNally | UniOfStirl | 92 | FINA World Championships 2013 | Barcelona, Spain | 1 | 02/08/13 | 1:55.67 |
| 3 | Luke Greenbank | Loughboro Un | 97 | British Championships 2019 | Glasgow | 1 | 21/04/19 | 1:55.89 |
| 4 | Christopher Walker-Hebborn | Team Bath AS | 90 | 13th Fina World Champs2009 | Rome | 1 | 30/07/09 | 1:56.05 |
| 5 | Gregor Tait | 79 | British Champs (50m) 2008 | Sheffield | 1 | 03/04/08 | 1:56.67 |