{"id":7737,"date":"2021-04-29T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2022-09-16T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T22:30:09","slug":"guildford-citys-alicia-wilson-selected-for-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=7737","title":{"rendered":"Guildford City’s Alicia Wilson selected for Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Guildford City Swimming Club\u2019s Alicia Wilson who has secured a place in Team GB for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this summer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Her selection came after an impressive second-place finish in the 200m individual medley at a scaled-back British Swimming Selection Trials, held behind closed doors at the London Aquatics Centre in mid-April.<\/span><\/p>\n

Touching in at 2min 9.61sec, almost two seconds faster than the consideration standard, she swam a personal best and also set a new county long-course record in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

“To be able to get under 2:11 was a shock,” she said afterwards. “It has been hard because I don’t have my team-mates here. I am just really thankful to have the coaching staff that I do because that has definitely compensated for it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The time ranks her fifth fastest in the world this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tributes were paid around the county as news filtered through about her selection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Guildford City tweeted: “British Swimming have announced that Alicia Wilson will be representing Team GB at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Congratulations Alicia. This is an incredible achievement, and we are so proud of you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Woking SC\u2019s Julie Burvill was equally delighted. “This is amazing news, so thrilled for her,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“So pleased to see GCSC’s Alicia Wilson has been selected,” said swimming official Diane Gamble. “Her swim in the 200m IM at the BSSTs was great to see.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilson, who turned 21 last month, is currently on a sports scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, where she trains with the California Golden Bears.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also holds Surrey long-course records in the ladies’ 200m backstroke, ladies’ short-course 200m individual medley and the girls’ short-course 200m and 400m individual medleys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also making her Olympic debut for Team GB in Tokyo will be Alys Thomas, 30, the Swansea-based butterfly specialist whose formative years were at Kingston Royals SC.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the GB team will be competing at the upcoming European Aquatics Championships in Hungary. The swimming will be held at the Duna Arena in Budapest from May 17 \u2013 23.<\/span><\/p>\n

European organisers have already confirmed the meet will be run in “a bubble system”, without spectators at the venue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Olympic swimming events are scheduled to take place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from July 24 \u2013 August 1.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guildford City SC’s Alicia Wilson to represent Team GB at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"category-swimming","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}