2022 SCOTTISH NATIONAL SC CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, December 9th – Sunday, December 11th
- Royal Commonwealth Pool, Glasgow, Scotland
- SCM (25m)
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
The 2022 Scottish National Short Course Championships wrapped up tonight from the Royal Commonwealth Pool, but not before 19-year-old Olympic gold medalist Matt Richards got to work.
Millfield’s Richards followed up his 100m free win from night one with three additional victories before the competition was done and dusted.
Richards punched a time of 1:41.70 to top the men’s 200m free podium, getting the edge over runner-up Jack McMillan of Ireland. McMillan touched in 1:41.93 with both men just falling short of the 1:41.50 season-best Richards logged at the Swim England Winter Championships earlier this month.
Next for Richards was the men’s 100m fly where the teen put up a winning effort of 50.86. Jacob Peters produced the fastest front half, splitting 23.68 to Richards’ 23.75. But Richards inched up on Peters to ultimately touch in the aforementioned 50.86 while Peters settled for silver in 50.95.
Entering this meet, Richards’ personal best in this 1fly rested at the 52.22 he established earlier this season. This means the Millfield Olympian hacked well over a second off of that previous PB to get under not only the 52-second threshold but the 51-second threshold for the first time in his career. In doing so, Richards rocketed up the all-time British rankings to insert himself into slot #9, tied with Mildred.
Finally, Richards concluded his Scottish Championships performances with a victory in the 50m free, posting 21.53. He currently ranks 9th in the world with the 21.11 he registered at the Swim England Winter Championships.
On the women’s side of things, Katie Shanahan posted a new Scottish national record in the 100m IM. Producing a winning effort of 59.86, Shanahan overtook her own previous personal best and Scottish standard of 1:00.46 put up during the 2021 ISL season.
Earlier in the meet Shanahan also topped the women’s 200m IM podium, touching in a time of 2:07.27. That gave her the win by over 4 seconds, with her time also checking in as a new lifetime best. Before these championships, she had been as quick as 2:08.45 but now becomes 7th fastest British woman ever in this event.
Freya Anderson led the women’s 200m free field, with a tightly-packed set of talent all roaring to the wall in one big wave. Anderson ultimately got there first in 1:55.19 while American Catie DeLoof was just .04 shy of gold in 1:55.23.
Freya Colbert was also in the mix with 1:55.46 while another American, Paige Madden, just missed the podium in 1:55.57.
Anderson owns the British national record with her career-best of 1:51.87 from 2 years ago while DeLoof’s effort here in Glasgow established a new personal best. The former University of Michigan star’s previous PB stood at the 1:55.48 logged at 2020 U.S. Summer Nationals.
DeLoof did top the podium here in the 50m free, logging 24.16 to grab the gold.
Additional Winners
- Laura Stephens got to the wall first in the women’s 100m fly, clocking 58.64 to keep runner-up Emily Large of Millfield at bay. Large settled for silver in 58.92.
- Edinburgh’s Archie Goodburn grabbed gold in the men’s 100m breast, stopping the clock in a time of 58.63.
- Kara Hanlon secured the women’s 100m breast win with a time of 1:06.39, coming within .33 of Corrie Scott‘s national record.
- The men’s 100m back saw Cameron Brooker get to the wall first in 51.73.
- Charlie Hutchison was the winner of the men’s 40m free event, stopping the clock in 3:42.14.
- The women’s 100m back saw Stirling’s Kathleen Dawson produce a time of 58.15 in her first meet back after tending to a back injury.
- Multi-Olympic medalist Duncan Scott was also back in the water, producing a time of 52.85 to win the men’s 100m IM.
- Loughborough’s Freya Colbert snagged the 400m free victory in 4:02.82 ahead of Madden and Anderson who touched in 4:03.97 and 4:05.58, respectively.
Results of CBSE SZ II is available on Indianaquatics website. But no results could be found on any other zones. Wondering why so much of confidentiality that stops publishing results on web from other zones.
I feel like Shanahan will have a breathrough year next year, her season this year has been disrupted by injury or illness and she still came away with a Scottish record as well as european and commonwealth medals.