2024 CANADIAN OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC TRIALS
- May 13-19, 2024
- Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre – Toronto, Ontario
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It’s time for the penultimate night of finals at the 2024 Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Trials. It’s been a long meet and there’s still plenty of good racing to come. On the schedule for this evening: women’s para 100 backstroke, men’s para 100 backstroke, women’s open 200 butterfly, men’s open 200 IM, men’s open 50 freestyle, and the women’s 800 freestyle fastest heat.
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This morning, Emma Van Dyk broke her own Canadian S14 Para Record in the women’s 100 backstroke. She broke 1:11 for the first time and will get another shot at lowering that record tonight to kick off the session. Also in that field is Jaime Cosgriffe, who qualified to be nominated for the Paris Paralympic team earlier in the week and is looking to add another event. The same is true for both Reid Maxwell and Alexander Elliot in the men’s para 100 backstroke.
Then, Summer McIntosh will step up to the blocks in the women’s open 200 butterfly. She’s the top seed coming into the final after cruising to a 2:11.16 in prelims. Based on her performances earlier in the week, including breaking her own world record in the 400 IM, she could have another special swim in store tonight.
In the men’s 200 IM, we’ll get to see 2024 world champion Finlay Knox duke it out with Tristan Jankovics, one of the breakouts of this meet. Jankovics dropped massive time in the 400 IM to win the event and qualify for his first Olympic team. He’s got the top seed heading into tonight but Knox won’t make it easy on him. Knox is also looking for his first individual qualification for Paris; he’s earned a spot on the medley and 4×100 freestyle relays so far.
The men’s 50 freestyle will be all about Josh Liendo. He posted a 21.72 in prelims, coming within sight of his own Canadian record. He was the only man under 22 seconds in prelims; Yuri Kisil qualified second in 22.11. They’ll be the two favorites for those roster spots, but Edouard Fullum-Huot will try to get in on the action though he’ll likely need to produce his second personal best of the day to unseat Kisill.
WOMEN’S PARA 100 BACKSTROKE — Final
- Canadian Para Record S6: 1:20.76 — Shelby Newkirk (2022)
- Canadian Para Record S7: 1:19.99 — Shelby Newkirk (2019)
- Candian Para Record S9: 1:09.30 — Stephanie Dixon (2008)
- Canadian Para Record S10: 1:05.90 — Summer Mortimer (2012)
- Candian Para Record S13: 1:09.90 — Chelsey Gotell (2008)
- Canadian Para Record S14: 1:10.99 — Emma Van Dyk (2024)
Top 10:
- Jaime Cosgriffe (OAK) S10 — 1:08.52 (1001 Para Points)
- Shelby Newkirk (LASER) S6 — 1:22.33 (977 Para Points)
- Aurélie Rivard (CNQ) S10 — 1:11.28 (900 Para Points)
- Mary Jibb (MUSAC) S9 — 1:13.62 (867 Para Points)
- Emma Van Dyk (BROCK) S14 — 1:11.36 (833 Para Points)
- Maxine Lavitt (UMAN) S13 — 1:12.08 (788 Para Points)
- Arianna Hunsicker (UL) S10 — 1:15.29 (777 Para Points)
- Ruby Stevens (RCAQ) S6 — 1:34.11 (701 Para Points)
- Katarine Roxon (AASC) S9 — 1:21.29 (667 Para Points)
Jaime Cosgriffe, who broke onto the Para swimming scene last season, added another event to her Paralympic schedule with her 1:08.52 in the women’s para 100 backstroke. Cosgriffe said post-race that she would have liked to have gone a personal best time. In Paris, she will be trying to improve from her 5th place finish at the 2023 World Para Championships.
Shelby Newkirk also got under the MSQ standard, swimming a 1:22.33 to get under in the S6 classification.
Emma Van Dyk added slightly from her record-setting swim this morning, swimming 1:11.36 to pick up 833 Para Points.
MEN’S PARA 100 BACKSTROKE — Final
- Canadian Para Record S7: 1:24.40 — Jean-Michel Lavalliere (2015)
Canadian Para Record S8: 1:09.48 — Reid Maxwell (2024)- Canadian Para Record S10: 1:00.33 — Benoit Hout (2016)
Top 10:
- Reid Maxwell (EKSC) S8 — 1:08.86 (858 Para Points)
- Alexander Elliot (CNQ) S10 — 1:04.03 (790 Para Points)
- Charle Giammichele (GHAC) S7 — 1:26.52 (566 Para Points)
16-year-old Reid Maxwell kept his momentum rolling during the men’s 100 backstroke. This is his first Olympic and Paralympic Trials but that hasn’t shaken him as he’s taken down multiple Canadian Para Records this week. He added another here in the 100 backstroke, breaking his own S8 Para Record. Maxwell reset the standard he swam earlier this season, clocking 1:08.86 for a new record by .62 seconds.
WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY — Final
- World Record: 2:01.81 — Liu Zige, China (2009)
- World Junior Record: 2:04.06 — Summer McIntosh, Canada (2023)
- Canadian Record: 2:04.06 — Summer McIntosh (2023)
- Olympic Qualifying Time: 2:08.43
Top 10:
- Summer McIntosh (UN-CAN) — 2:04.33 *Olympic Qualifying Time*
- Mabel Zavaros (MAC) — 2:11.85
- Breckin Gormley (NKB) — 2:11.94
- Katie Forrester (MAC) — 2:12.38
- Clare Watson (UN-CAN) — 2:13.84
- Ashlyn Massey (PCSC) — 2:13.91
- Mia West (MANTA) — 2:15.10
- Angela Jiachen Wang (MAC) — 2:15.60
- Genevieve Sasseville (WS) — 2:16.19
- Leilani Fack (LOSC) — 2:16.39
Summer McIntosh continues to shine at these Trials. She added another event to her Olympic schedule, storming away from the field in the 200 butterfly to nearly break her own Canadian and world junior records in the event.
McIntosh said post-race that she had a little difficulty coming home on the last 50 and that does show in her splits — she was on her personal best pace for much of the race, splitting 27.43/31.16 on the opening 100. She split 32.65 on the third 50, then split 33.09 on the final 50.
Though she fell off her PB pace, she still posted the fastest time in the world this year with a 2:04.33. That overtakes the 2:04.80 that Regan Smith put up at the Westmont Pro Series.
2023-2024 LCM Women 200 Fly
MCINTOSH
2:04.33
| 2 | Regan SMITH | USA | 2:04.80 | 03/08 |
| 3 | Elizabeth Ann Dekkers | AUS | 2:05.20 | 04/18 |
| 4 | Yufei Zhang | CHN | 2:05.57 | 09/24 |
| 5 | Alex SHACKELL | USA | 2:06.10 | 06/19 |
For second, Mabel Zavaros swam a new season-best of 2:11.85, dropping three-hundredths from her swim at the Canadian Open.
MEN’S 200 IM — Final
- World Record: 1:54.00 — Ryan Lochte, United States (2011)
- World Junior Record: 1:56.99 — Hubert Kos, Hungary (2021)
Canadian Record: 1:56.64 — Finlay Knox (2024)- Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:57.94
Top 10:
- Finlay Knox (SCAR) — 1:56.07 *Olympic Qualifying Time* *Canadian Record*
- Tristan Jankovics (RCAQ) — 1:59.32
- Lorne Wigginton (HP-CON) — 2:00.90
- Collyn Gagne (LOSC) — 2:01.96
- Blake Tierney (GOLD) — 2:02.34
- Jordi Vilchez (BTSC) — 2:02.82
- Marcus Mak (ISC) — 2:03.68
- Carter Scheffel (BRANT) — 2:04.62
- Justice Migneault (HP-CVN) — 2:04.75
- Raben Dommann (HP-CVN) — 2:06.65
En route to his world title in Doha, Finlay Knox came on strong during the freestyle leg, passing the other competitors in the field. He still had a strong freestyle leg in this championship final, but he was already well clear of the field.
Knox wasted no time stamping his authority on this race. He opened in a 24.52 butterfly leg to establish a lead that was under his own Canadian record pace. He did not look back from there, splitting 29.24 on the backstroke and extending his lead. Knox came home in 33.81/28.50, touching in 1:56.07 to break his Canadian record. He broke the record–which he set at this year’s World Championships–by .57 seconds and qualified for his first individual event in Paris.
The time is also 4th in the world this season, slotting in just a hundredth behind Shaine Casas.
2023-2024 LCM Men 200 IM
Wang
1:54.62
| 2 | Carson FOSTER | USA | 1:55.65 | 06/21 |
| 3 | Leon MARCHAND | FRA | 1:55.74 | 05/24 |
| 4 | Shaine CASAS | USA | 1:55.83 | 06/21 |
| 5 | Duncan SCOTT | GBR | 1:55.91 | 04/05 |
Raben Dommann was running second in the first half of the race, but fell off the pace after the backstroke. Tristan Jankovics once again used his breaststroke leg to make a move, splitting 34.90 to take over second place. He earned silver in a final time of 1:59.32, slightly off his 1:59.05 personal best.
MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE — Final
- World Record: 20.91 — Cesar Cielo, Brazil (2009)
- World Junior Record: 21.75 — Michael Andrew, United States (2017)
Canadian Record: 21.61 — Josh Liendo (2022)- Olympic Qualifying Time: 21.96
Top 10:
- Josh Liendo (NYAC) — 21.48 *Olympic Qualifying Time* *Canadian Record*
- Yuri Kisil (CASC) — 22.01 *Olympic Consideration Time*
- Edouard Fullum-Huot (PCSC) — 22.14
- Liam Weaver (CASC) — 22.54
- Stephen Calkins (UCSC) — 22.55
- Javier Acevedo (AJAX) — 22.59
- Owen Guyn (LASC) — 22.85
- Hocine Feddag (CAMO) — 22.97
- Justin Baker (NYAC)/Paul Dardins (UCSC) — 23.03
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Make that two Canadian records in as many events. Josh Liendo got the job done in the men’s 50 freestyle and like Knox in the previous event, broke his own Canadian record.
Liendo used a powerful start and breakout to jump out to a lead that he never surrendered through the splash and dash. He tore to a 21.48, breaking his Canadian record from 2022 by .13 seconds. He also moves up from a tie for 11th in the world rankings to 4th in the world this season.
2023-2024 LCM Men 50 Free
MCEVOY
21.13
| 2 | Benjamin PROUD | GBR | 21.25 | 04/06 |
| 3 | Vladyslav BUKHOV | UKR | 21.38 | 02/16 |
| 4 | Caeleb DRESSEL | USA | 21.41 | 06/22 |
| 5 | Josh LIENDO | CAN | 21.48 | 05/18 |
Yuri Kisil pushed right at the end of the race and stopped the clock at 22.01 for second place. It’s outside of the Olympic Qualifying Time, but it’s a PB by .01 seconds for Kisil, his first in the event since 2018. Edouard Fullum-Huot swam his second personal best of the day to collect bronze. Fullum-Huot knocked a hundredth off his PB in prelims with a 22.25, but brought that even lower with a 22.14 here in the final.
WOMEN’S 800 FREESTYLE — TIMED FINAL, Fastest Heat
- World Record: 8:04.79 — Katie Ledecky, United States (2016)
- World Junior Record: 8:11.00 — Katied Ledecky, UNited States (2014)
- Canadian Record: 8:11.39 — Summer McIntosh (2024)
- Olympic Qualifying Time: 8:26.71
Top 10:
- Julia Strojnowska (LOSC) — 8:38.36
- Emma Finlin (EKSC) — 8:38.48
- Julia Brousseau (NKB) — 8:41.03
- Sienna Angove (UN-CAN) — 8:43.07
- Kathryn Hazle (UN-CAN) — 8:47.05
- Megan Willar (PCSC) — 8:47.70
- Ella Cosgrove (DSC) — 8:49.47
- Laila Oravsky (BTSC) — 8:57.74
- Peyton Leigh (BROCK) — 8:59.27
- Tori Meklensek (DSC) — 9:02.12
After Emma Finlin–who is already qualified for Paris in the open water 10K–passed Julie Brousseau at the 600 meter mark, it looked like the race was all sewn up. Brousseau was trying to bring her legs into the race but wasn’t able to completely counter Finlin’s splits.
It looked like Finlin was on her way to the win–she had over a body length lead with 25 meters to go. But then Julia Strojnowska came charging, seemingly out of nowhere. She was kicking hard and eating into Finlin’s lead. Finlin was breathing to the other side and either did not see and/or couldn’t counter Strojnowska’s powerful kick, and the LOSC swimmer pulled ahead to win the title by .12 seconds.
Strojnowska out-touched Finlin 8:38.36 to 8:38.48, picking up her third medal of the meet. And now, after winning here, she has one medal of each color.
Brousseau held on for third place in 8:41.03.
Since no one qualified for the 800m free will Summer swim it now?
The meet she swam her 8:11 at is not one of the qualifying meets so she cannot swim it at Olympics
That is correct (nor was Sectionals in February 2023 where she swam 8:20.19).
she wont swim the 800 : 200 im v kayleen , 400 free v Arianne , 200 fly v decker’s and 400 im doesn’t matter
she may go 200 v molly that would be brave on her part
I know an arbitrary cut off has to be made somewhere, but I really don’t like the leader boards treating Worlds as the end of the season. To me the fast Asian Games and World Cup swims just seem more interrelated to that “cycle” than this build up to Paris now, though I concede some variation on that theme very well may appear no matter what, as much as that is irrationally irking me.
Anyway, a (not so?) hot take, neither McEvoy or Dressel will be winning the Paris Splash ‘n Dash
I’m tipping McEvoy to win it in near WR time.
On the contrary i would bet money that one of them will definitely win in Paris.
Liendo, Ben are meant to contend for spots of 50 free podium.
Apart from SM not swimming it, that was about as exciting as an 800 final can get. Strojnowska blasted that last 100 to get her hand on the wall first. Incredible finish.
I am sure Liendo is not completely tapered, he’s gonna get a lane in the final of the 100 and 50 free
Reading the comments, not sure why we expected Summer to be quicker in the 200m Fly on Day 6- qualified by 4 seconds, won by 8 seconds…just needs to be booking her tickets to Paris at this stage.
After the race interview: “It’s really just trying to work that second half as much as possible at this point,” McIntosh said. “I have at least a second if I’m (faster in the second half.)”
Yep.
She just needs to be patient and fine tune.
It’s the same mistake she made in 400 free. She went out too aggressively.
Remember she’s only 17.
She’ll learn and swim better in Paris.
She’s trying to impress Awsi.
Lol.
Bad advice.
Yep we have to remember this, she is a generational swimmer, but only 17 years old.
MOC was swimming 1.55 flat at 17 years old & now 2 years later swimming 1.52.8.
Once Summer gets stronger & more experience, she will be near unbeatable in whatever event she chooses.
That was also true of the 400IM. She could swim a 400IM at 70% and win in Paris let alone at Canadian trials but she still set a WR.
People flip flop between she is tapered or she isn’t tapered or she is going for best times or she isn’t going for best times.
I think the biggest difference in the 400IM vs last year is the breaststroke technique, all her other split are similar/worse
she’s probably at the same place she was last year taper wise she just had a 1.5s “free” to her current standard in her WC,
she could shave off with technique improvement
Looks like Rebecca Smith won’t swim 50 free on final day.
Does she know something we don’t? (aka did she make the team?)
Why wouldn’t she try to make the team one final time even if it’s unlikely?
Ali Sayed is that guy. 22.4