Madeleine McCann’s youthful brother Sean to swim for Scotland at Glasgow 2026 | Commonwealth Games 2026

Madeleine McCann’s youthful brother, Sean, has been chosen to symbolize Scotland in swimming on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

McCann, a pupil at Loughborough University, is predicted to compete in quite a few longer-distance freestyle occasions when competitors begins on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre on Thursday, and hopes a robust efficiency in Glasgow will strengthen his bid for choice to Team Great Britain for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. McCann is eligible to symbolize Scotland by means of his father, Gerry, who was born in Glasgow.

The 21-year-old and his twin sister had been two years previous when their sister Madeleine disappeared shortly earlier than her fourth birthday throughout a household vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007. Her disappearance has turn out to be one of many world’s most high-profile lacking individual circumstances and topic to ongoing media consideration, whereas a Metropolitan police investigation into her disappearance has been open since 2011.

McCann beforehand represented Scotland on the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago, the place he completed fifth within the 400m freestyle and seventh within the 1500m freestyle. He additionally competed for Great Britain within the 10km on the 2025 European Open Water Championships in Croatia.

In an Instagram video posted by Loughborough Swimming final 12 months, McCann mentioned his ambition was to compete on the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics and defined how he obtained into swimming, saying: “When I was eight, my mum [Kate McCann] took me to Loughborough Town [Swimming Club] and I hated it at first, didn’t want to go, but after a while, it grew on me and I’m still here now.”

Speaking to the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust, who in 2021-22 awarded him a grant, McCann mentioned: “I train nine times a week in the pool, as well as three gym sessions, totalling over 20 hours of training per week. I’ve had to remain extremely dedicated, getting up at 4am multiple mornings each week to train, since the age of 11.”