Two Cumbrian swimming stars have been named in England’s squad for this summer’s Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Luke Greenbank and Brooklyn Hale are among 42 athletes chosen to represent Team England in the swimming and para swimming events in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Greenbank, 28, and 15-year-old para swimmer Hale, will target success at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre this summer.<\/p>\n
Backstroke specialist Greenbank has won medals in the previous two Commonwealth Games, the 28-year-old from Cockermouth taking silver in the 4x100m medley in 2018 and upgrading that to gold in the same event in 2022.<\/p>\n
Wigton teenager Hale, meanwhile, is a rising para swimming star who last month won a bronze medal in the women\u2019s 400m freestyle para final at the GB Aquatics Championships in London.<\/p>\n
In April she was also selected to make debut on an Aquatics GB senior team in the World Para Swimming European Championships\u00a0in September – and selection for the Commonwealth Games is another major landmark in her fledgling career.<\/p>\n
Greenbank started out at Cockermouth Swimming Club – where Hale is also a member. The club have congratulated Greenbank and Hale on their selection, writing on Facebook: “This is an absolutely monstrous achievement and one that we are bursting with pride to see two of our swimmers accomplish.”<\/p>\n
Announcing the squad, Team England Chef de Mission Jonathon Riall said: \u201cIt\u2019s brilliant to be able to announce such a strong swimming squad for Glasgow 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a number of returning Commonwealth champions and true stars of the sport, alongside some new faces who are set to make their mark this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other stars in the England squad include Adam Ramsay-Peaty, Oliver Morgan, Alice Tai, James Guy, Tom Dean, Freya Colbert and Poppy Maskill.<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth Games run from July 23 to August 2.<\/p>\n
FULL ENGLAND SQUAD<\/strong><\/p>\n Swimming:<\/strong> Adam Ramsay-Peaty, Oliver Morgan, Edward Mildred, Jacob Mills, Jack Skerry, Greg Butler, James Guy, Jacob Whittle, Gabe Shepherd, Max Morgan, Cameron Brooker, Freya Anderson, Freya Colbert, Leah Schlosshan, Erin Little, Lauren Cox, Eva Okaro, Abbie Wood, Emily Richards, Amalie Smith, Imogen Clark, Darcy Revitt, Amelie Blocksidge, Gabrielle Idle-Beavers, Max Litchfield, Luke Greenbank,<\/strong> Jacob Peters, Tom Dean.<\/p>\n Para swimming:<\/strong> Alice Tai, Brock Whiston, Brooklyn Hale<\/strong>, Evie Lambert, Georgia Sheffield, Rebecca Redfern, Iona Winnifrith, Isabella Haynes, Louise Fiddes, Poppy Maskill, Ursula Carroll, Matthew Redfern, William Ellard, Bruce Dee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Cumbrian swimming stars have been named in England’s squad for this summer’s Commonwealth Games. Luke Greenbank and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,266793,266796,266797,18527,393,58791,4884,266798,266792,219717,266794,266795,222585,17942,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-955710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-brooklyn-hale","10":"tag-cockermouth","11":"tag-cockermouth-swimming-club","12":"tag-commonwealth-games","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-england-squad","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-jacob-peters","17":"tag-luke-greenbank","18":"tag-max-morgan","19":"tag-oliver-morgan","20":"tag-para-swimming-events","21":"tag-team-england","22":"tag-tom-dean","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116563929224637161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}