CANADIAN TRIALS – DAY THREE FINALS
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- Live results can be found here
- Prelims each day begin at 10 am EST/7 am PST
- Finals each day begin at 6 pm EST/3 pm PST
- Potential World Championships Team Roster
WOMEN’S 400 FREE
- Canadian Record – 4:05.06 Brittany MacLean
- Top ’16’ Standard – 4:06.86
- Pan Am Games Selection Standard -4:17.99
Emily Overholt has been having a fantastic meet thus far at the Canadian Trials, winning the 200 freestyle and making the World Championship roster in the 400 IM.
Tonight, she added another victory with a 400 freestyle win. Swimming out of lane eight, Overholt pushed the pace from start to finish and ended up claiming gold in 4:10.07.
Tabitha Baumann was right behind her in 4:12.62 with Brittany MacLean just off Baumann’s time rounding out the podium in 4:12.92.
Canadian up-and-coming star Taylor Ruck broke a national age-group record en route to a fourth place finish. She clocked in at 4:13.51 to take down the mark which has stood since the 1976 Olympic Games when Shannon Smith took bronze.
MEN’S 400 FREE
- Canadian Record – 3:43.46 Ryan Cochrane
- Top ’16’ Standard – 3:49.39
- Pan Am Games Selection Standard – 3:57.29
Ryan Cochrane was the absolute favourite going into the 400 freestyle after cracking the ‘top 16’ standard this morning to take the top spot heading into finals with a 3:49.00.
Tonight, it wasn’t the one horse race that everyone expected as former Cal swimmer representing Island Swimming Jeremy Bagshaw fought him tooth and nail right towards the wall.
At the touch it was Cochrane who claimed the victory with a 3:47.50 Bagshaw wasn’t that far behind, solidifying himself as the fifth Canadian under 3:50 in the 400 freestyle.
Bagshaw clocked in at 3:49.76, just shy of the ‘top 16’ mark.
Keegan Zanatta of UBC rounded out the top three with a very solid 3:52.15 which held off Kier Maitland. Maitland was fourth in 3:52.44.
WOMEN’S 100 FLY
- Canadian Record – 57.27 Katerine Savard
- Top ’16’ Standard – 58.66
- Pan Am Games Selection Standard – 1:01.49
Written by Braden Keith
MEN’S 100 FLY
- Canadian Record – 52.28 Joe Bartoch
- Top ’16’ Standard – 52.37
- Pan Am Games Selection Standard -53.99
Written by Braden Keith
WOMEN’S 200 BACK
- Canadian Record – 2:06.80 Hilary Caldwell
- Top ’16’ Standard – 2:10.80
- Pan Am Games Selection Standard -2:20.19
Written by Braden Keith
Dominique Bouchard was part of a huge pack at the first turn of the women’s 200 backstroke final, and from there on out she controlled this race en route to a 2:09.05 victory. Both she and Hilary Caldwell (2:09.53) are qualified to swim the race now at the World Championships – a bit of a relief after illness struck both Brooklynn Snodgrass and Sinead Russell from the meet.
MEN’S 200 BACK
- Canadian Record – 1:57.34 Matthew Hawes
- Top ’16’ Standard – 1:58.51
- Pan Am Games Selection Standard – 2:06.05
SWEEP. Russell Wood took his third national title of the week with a very solid 1:59.18 in the 200m backstroke in order to sweep the discipline.
On night one he took the 100 backstroke in 53.96 to finish just three-tenths of a second shy of the national record. The time was fast enough to guarantee him a spot on the World Championships roster.
He also broke the national record in the 50m backstroke.
Wood was the only swimmer out of the entire field to break two minutes in the race, finishing almost two full second ahead of second place finisher Markus Thormeyer who clocked in at 2:01.06.
Jeremie Dezwirek was third in 2:01.36.
WOMEN’S 50 BREAST
- Canadian Record – 30.23 Amanda Reason
Rachel Nicol grabbed her second national title in as many days with a very swift 50m breaststroke win, claiming gold by over half-a-second.
At the touch Nicol was a 31.15 ahead of UBC’s Rebecca Terejko. Terejko dropped a 31.66 to just narrowly out-touch Marie-Solei Jean-Lachapelle.
Finishing fourth was Calgary’s Tianna Rissling with a time of 31.89. Tera Van Beilen was the last swimmer under 32 seconds, rocking a 31.90 at the wall.
MEN’S 50 BREAST
- Canadian Record -27.45 Scott Dickens
Richard Funk doubled up following his 100m breaststroke win from last night, coming close to Scott Dickens’ Canadian record with a time of 27.65.
Jason Block of Calgary was Funk’s closest competitor touching way back in 28.30. He was packed tightly with Alberta’s Nick Kostiuk who rounded out the top three with a solid 28.45.
Fourth at the touch was Andrew Poznikoff just two one-hundredths behind Kostiuk. He was a tenth ahead of Sergey Holson who claimed fifth in 28.57.
P.S. The Canadian swimmers seem to really be enjoying this big meet in their brand new pool! I see lots of smiles on deck; it must be nice to have a Trials meet that has less pressure!
How is their less pressure? Because the
standards are so tough the majority of the swimmers think it is futile for them to make the team?
Actually, the standards for making Worlds are HIGHER than in most countries, but it seems like in most events there are 2-3 women and 1-2 men who should make an international team because they are quite cometitive as well as a few young rising talents who would probably do better at a junior level meet. Since everybody is swimming pretty well, and there are 2 teams to choose, it looks like everything will work out in the en, especially THIS year, because swimming at Pan Pacs IN CANADA is a nice consolation prize for missing the Worlds time.
Relative to US Trials, that’s a lot less pressure, IMO.
From my observations I feel the meet is lacking excitement. Other than the swimmers winning (or coming second with a top 16 time) nobody else has a clue whether they have made Pan Am Games, FISU Games, or World Junior Championships. Or in fact whether there will be relays taken to worlds. Let’s make the criteria clear so that swimmers know right away if they have made a team so they don’t have to wait until the last night once sll the back room dealings are finished.
I’m definitely enjoying the excellent coverage, which by the way I hope becomes the standard other countries follow, but you are ABSOLUTELY right. I hate this backroom decision making crapola, it does take excitement away from the meet and it’s just plain not fair.
Here are my thoughts:
1. Overholt was gutsy to go out so fast in the 400 free, and her training paid off! Since she’s under thr FINA A standard, and she’s made the World Team in the 400 IM, I sure hope she can swim both in Kazan (not to mention the 200 free) because it’ll be tough to have 2 focus meets this summer. Hey, I didn’t know Alex Baumann has a daughter that swims! Congrat’s on the silver Tabitha! Oh yeah, and if Overholt is going to Kazan, I hope MacLean will be on the Pan Am Team for the 400.
2. It looked like Ryan Cochran was trying to pace Jeremy Bagshaw and pull him along… Read more »
Alex Baumann also has a son, Ashton, who competed for Canada at the 2013 world champs. As for the men’s medley relay, I’m more hopeful for Condorelli stepping up and being the #1 flyer, with Wood, Funk, and Kisil at the other strokes.
I don’t know Kisil’s best 100 free time vs Allen’s best 100 fly time, but it seems like both options are about equal to me, and neither may be good enough to make World Finals; but Santo is definitely better at the freestyle than the fly, and with all the waves splashing around in a men’s championship final I’d rather have sturdy Santo than a young, thin guy like Kisil, anchoring!
Kisil hasn’t dropped below a 49 on a flat start yet, but he split a fast 48.14 in the 4×100 medley relay finals at the Commenwealth Games last year. He’s my favourite for the freestyle leg thanks to that swim.
WOW! You’re right! Sign the kid up! That’s a horse of a different color! 🙂
Both Thomas and Savard were under the Top-16 standard in the 100 fly. Great swim by 14-year old Oleksiak with a 1:00.03, which I believe breaks Thomas’ NAG record.
What a swim by Overholt. 4:10.07 from lane 8. NAG record from Ruck with a 4:13.51 for third.
Sorry, Ruck finished fourth.