The penultimate day of 2025 World Para Swimming Championships competition saw Brock Whiston and Great Britain’s Mixed S14 4x100m Medley team triumph in Singapore.
A world record swim rounded out day six in the pool for Great Britain, as Poppy Maskill, Harry Stewart, Will Ellard and Bethany Firth combined to claim victory in the Mixed S14 4x100m Medley.
The mixed medley format is always a spectacle to watch - and with the events introduction to the Paralympic programme for LA 2028 it added intrigue to this world title affair. For Great Britain, Maskill and Stewart put in firm foundations for the team over the opening backstroke and breaststroke legs, before the baton fell to Ellard to hold the edge over a competitive Brazilian quartet across the 100m butterfly.
Firth took over duties on the anchoring freestyle and put the contest firmly to bed – bringing the team collectively home in a new world record mark of 4:02.86.
“I’m so happy! These guys are amazing, they’re so good to swim with and I think we’re just setting the standard for what is to come,” said Firth.
“It’s a world record by about five seconds there – it was a really good relay. Now that it’s a Paralympic event I’m sure we’ll try at different things to keep aiming to get better and better [in this format],” said Ellard,
Meanwhile at the start of the night, Brock Whiston backed up her Paralympic title from 12 months ago - delivering a season’s best performance in the Women’s SM8 200m Individual Medley to take victory in the OCBC Aquatic Centre competition pool.
Driving into the lead on the breaststroke, Whiston brought it home strong on the closing freestyle to complete her medal set after silver (400m Freestyle) and bronze (100m Butterfly) earlier in the meet.
Reacting to her world title win, Whiston said:
“I felt like coming into it I had a lot of pressure on myself, no one else put the pressure on me but after winning gold at Paris I just wanted to come here and prove that it wasn’t just a one of an that I deserve to be on the podium. I can’t stop smiling, I’m super happy.
“Singapore has been amazing, I thought I’d maybe struggle a bit with the time difference and the heat, but the team have been really supportive and we had the best prep camp [ahead of this week] that I’d say I’ve probably ever had for a competition”
Continuing to add to her worlds medal haul, Faye Rogers set yet another British record mark as she sprinted to silver in the Women’s S10 100m Freestyle. Coming back from the turn powerfully, Rogers progressed her national mark down to 1:00.46 to finish closely behind Turkey’s Defne Kurt.
Another British record in the pool came as Bruce Dee agonisingly missed out on an individual world medal in the Men’s SB6 100m Breaststroke. Laying down a scorching first 50m, the Northampton-swimmer was up alongside the medal places right to the wire, touching a mere tenth off the podium in a time of 1:20.97 for fourth.
In the Women’s S7 50m Freestyle, it was equally as close with 14-year-old Iona Winnifrith just a tenth outside of the medal places as she produced a huge new lifetime best of 33.77 to finish fourth on the world stage.
Live and extended results of the Singapore 2025 World Para Swimming Championships can be found at www.paralympic.org/swimming/live-results, with live streaming of sessions on the Paralympics YouTube Channel.