2016 CIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Quebec City, QC
- SCM – Prelims
- LCM – Finals
- Prelims 10:00 am ET
- Finals 6:00 pm ET
- Defending men’s champions: UBC
- Defending women’s champions: UBC
- Live results
- Live Stream
WOMEN’S 800m FREESTYLE
With a huge surge in the last 50 meters Bridget Coley of Toronto ended up passing Maia Brundage of UBC who had stolen the lead for her, and touched the wall in first with a time of 8:58.09.
Brundage got robbed of the gold by just 0.02 seconds, touching in at 8:58.11 behind Coley for the silver medal. Dalhousie’s Katherine Webster was third behind the two leaders in 9:01.62 followed by Alexandra King in 9:02.08 and Lauren Teghtsoonian in 9:02.34.
MEN’S 50m BREASTSTROKE
Stephen Giovanetto took home a gigantic win in the men’s 50m breaststroke with a very fast 28.60 at the touch. Giovanetto stretched in to touch ahead of Toronto’s Eli Wall who was just out-touched with a 28.63.
Taking home the bronze was Sherbrooke’s Jonathan Naisby in 28.75 to hold of Manitoba’s Dillon Perron.
WOMEN’S 50m BREASTSTROKE
Rebecca Terejko took down teammate and 100 and 200m breaststroke champion Tera Van Beilen en route to her first victory of the meet.
Terejko stretched into the wall at 31.82 to win the event over Calgary’s Tianna Rissling who earned herself the bronze with a 31.91 performance. Behind Rissling was Van Beilen in third, clocking in at 32.15 for the bronze.
Erin Stamp was just outside of the top three following a 32.23 swim.
MEN’S 200m BACKSTROKE
Noah Choboter of Regina got his hand on the wall for his first victory of the meet, putting up a time of 2:03.09 to fall just 0.17 seconds shy of Matthew Myers’ CIS record time of 2:02.92.
Choboter won the race by a sizable margin with his closest competitor being Hochan Ryu of Toronto. Ryu charged early on from an outside lane and managed to hold on for a medal, clocking in a 2:04.83 which was good for second. Karl Wolk of UBC was third in 2:05.06.
Jared Tsang and Daniel Kuiack tied for fourth with Josiah Binnema touching in for sixth.
WOMEN’S 200m BACKSTROKE
Kylie Masse completed the backstroke sweep with a big win in the 200m backstroke over both Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson and Genevieve Cantin.
Masse put up a time of 2:10.76 at the wall to win by over two-seconds. That time is the 21st fastest 200m backstroke this season, bumping American Elizabeth Beisel to 22nd.
Masse is the third Canadian to crack the top 25 in the 200m backstroke this season following Dominique Bouchard and Hilary Caldwell.
MEN’S 100m FREESTYLE
Evan Van Moerkerke of Guelph turned right around from the men’s 50m breaststroke final and won the 100m freestyle in 50.84. In doing so he just out-touched UBC freshman Carson Olafson who touched in at 50.88 to take the silver just four one-hundredths behind him.
Robert Bonomo of Ottawa managed to sneak in for the bronze, beating Toronto’s Mitchel Ferraro by just one one-hundredth of a second and leaving him off the podium. Bonomo was a 51.26, Ferraro was a 51.27.
WOMEN’S 100m FREESTYLE
Paulina Bond of Western won the 100m freestyle in 56.59, just four one-hundredths faster than Paige Schultz of Toronto. The win for Bond gave her the Sprinters Cup, an award given to any swimmer who wins both the 50 and 100m freestyles at an edition of the CIS Championships.
Schultz grabbedsilver with a 56.63 performance, well ahead of bronze medallist Magalie Poudrier from Laval. Poudrier was a 57.44 at the touch.
MEN’S 200m IM
Hochan Ryu left nothing in the pool in the men’s 200m IM final, absolutely blowing away his competitors from lane eight with a time of 2:03.93 which doubled as a CIS record. Hochan won by almost two full seconds over second place Christian Ng.
Ng, a freshman with Calgary, clocked in a 2:05.78 for the silver medal. Jonathan Brown of UBC was right behind him in 2:05.82 to snag the bronze.
Colin Eriks from UBC just missed the podium with a 2:05.88 performance, touching in just 0.06 seconds behind Brown.
WOMEN’S 200m IM
Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson won the last individual event of the meet on the women’s side with a 2:12.85 in the 200m IM. Seltenreich-Hodgson finished ahead of triple gold medallist Kylie Masse of Toronto.
Masse took home the silver medal in a time of 2:13.22. Erin Stamp of UBC was third overall in 2:17.84.
MEN’S 1500m FREESTYLE
Jon McKay of Victoria took the win in the men’s 1500m freestyle, capping off all individual events for the remainder of the CIS Championships. McKaay won by a huge amount, setting up the win with a 15:41.44 performance.
Second to McKay was Tristan Cote of Calgary who touched 15-seconds behind the leader with a 15:56.97 performance. Third for the UBC Thunderbirds was Jonathan Brown in 15:17.03, just 0.06 seconds behind Cote.
WOMEN’S 4x100m MEDLEY RELAY
The UBC Thunderbirds put up an incredible showing in the 4x100m medley relay, putting forth a gold medal performance with a 4:10.76.
The team gave both Tera Van Beilen, Jacomie Strydom, and Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson another gold medal to add to those they won earlier in the meet.
Toronto finished second in 4:12.03 followed by Calgary, Montreal, and Laval.
MEN’S 4x100m MEDLEY RELAY
In the last event of the 2016 CIS Championships the University of Toronto took down Calgary and just missed Alberta’s CIS meet record.
Mitchel Ferraro brought things home for Toronto with a 23.52 freestyle split in order to touch in at 3:44.62 for gold. Calgary finished second in 3:47.10 with Alberta taking third in 3:48.38.
The UBC Thunderbirds had to settle for fourth overall behind Alberta.
