Angharad Evans Lowers British 100m Breaststroke Record To 1:05.37; Enters Top 15 All-Time
Angharad Evans lowered her British 100m breaststroke record to 1:05.37 at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships as she booked her second individual swim at the Singapore worlds.
The University of Stirling swimmer posted the previous standard of 1:05.54 at the AP Race International in May 2024 before going on to finish sixth on her Olympic debut.
The Scot served notice of her intention in prelims where she posted 1:06.22, the sixth-fastest by a British woman in history, and she returned in the evening to go out in 31.05 and come home in 34.32 for her fifth journey inside 1:06 and the fastest in the world this year.
It followed her 2:21.86 PB over 200m as she clinched the breaststroke double. Kara Hanlon was second in 1:06.93 with Anna Morgan third in 1:08.39.
Evans has experienced the high of twice setting a British record at the London Aquatics Centre which hosted the 2012 Olympics.
“This seems to be a very special pool for me,” she said. “Either very lucky or something’s working in Stirling – but either way it’s such an honour to be crowned British champion two years in a row and I have the 200 to add to the collection as well. And to be breaking a British record in April is such a good start to the season. We’re barely halfway through to Singapore so it’s such a good start and I hope to take this forward moving on.”
The 21-year-old has been slicing chunks from her PBs in 2025. She cut three seconds from her 200 best to post 2:22.64 at the BUCS Championships in February, which she subsequently reduced by another 0.78 in her opening race in London.
She followed that up in the 100 where she cut 0.17 from her previous career best. “I don’t know how that’s happening,” she mused. “But I’ve said this before that lots of small things added together is where the big chunks come from. So it could be 0.1 on the start and 0.1 on the turn but all together. And the atmosphere in London has been amazing.”
Evans has launched herself into the top 15 all-time, standing joint-14th with Annie Lazor who also clocked 1:05.37 at the US Olympic trials in 2021. Lilly King’s WR stands at 1:04.13 set at the 2017 worlds in Budapest while Ruta Meilutyte – who Evans so looked up to as she grew up – holds the European record of 1:04.35. Evans is now fourth fastest European in history after Meilutyte, Yulia Efimova (1:04.36) and Evgeniia Chikunova (1:04.92).
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