2026 Canadian Swimming Trials
- July 5-9, 2026
- Montreal, Canada — Montreal Olympic Pool
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Well swimming fans, we have officially made it to the last day of the 2026 Canadian Trials.
There are seven finals on the last night of competition, four women’s events and three men’s events.
The meet will kick off with the 200 backstroke finals. On the women’s side, Madison Kryger earned the top seed by three seconds as the only swimmer under the ‘A’ standard, and she will be hoping to move from priority three to priority one for the Pan Pacs roster with a win.
Canadian record holder Blake Tierney swam the fastest time on the men’s side as the only swimmer under 2:00 in prelims. He is already on the team, but 2nd qualifier Francis Brennan is not qualified yet, and tonight will be his last chance.
Taylor Ruck is the top seed in the women’s 50 fly, and she will be trying to hold off Matea Gigovic, who is also not qualified for the Pan Pacs team yet. Ruck was more than half-a-second faster this morning, and will be attempting to go five-for-five with gold medals tonight. Eloise Allen, who qualified 4th, scratched the event in favor of the 100 breaststroke final, where she is also the 4th seed.
Finlay Knox swam the top time in the men’s 50 fly prelims of 23.54, three tenths ahead of Chris Weeks, who swam 23.88 for 2nd. Eric Ginzburg and Filip Senc-Samardzic were both about two tenths back of Weeks, and neither has qualified for Pan Pacs yet.
The women’s 100 breaststroke is shaping up to be a battle tonight as 200 breaststroke champion Alexanne Lepage set a personal best 1:06.38 to earn the top seed and 50 breaststroke champion Sophie Angus swam 1:07.08 for the 2nd seed. Both are qualified for Pan Pacs already, and it would take a massive upset for someone else to end up in the top two.
On the men’s side, Oliver Dawson is hunting a breaststroke sweep, having already won the 50 and 200 breast. He set the top time in the 100 breast of 1:00.90 and is the heavy favorite tonight over Apollo Hess and Brayden Taivassalo.
The meet will wrap up with the women’s 800 freestyle final heat where Ella Cosgrove is the top seed by seven seconds over 1500 free champion Emma Finlin.
Women’s 200 Back – Final
- World Record: 2:03.14, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2023
- Canadian Record: 2:05.42, Kylie Masse – 2021
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 2:11.08
Top 3 Finishers
- Madison Kryger — 2:08.17
- Ingrid Wilm — 2:10.10
- Reina Liu — 2:11.41
The women’s 200 backstroke saw the top two swimmers come in under the AQUA ‘A’ time of 2:11.08, led by Madison Kryger‘s 2:08.17.
Kryger split 29.86/32.38/33.12/32.81 to take more than a second off her former lifetime best of 2:09.53 that she swam at the Mare Nostrum stop in Barcelona. She came into the season at 2:09.88, which she sawm in June of last year.
This swim will move her up to 12th in the world this year behind China’s Sun Mingxia, who swam 2:08.12 at the China Swimming Open.
Ingrid Wilm took 2nd, picking up her 3rd backstroke silver medal and 3rd AQUA ‘A’ standard. She stopped the clock in 2:10.10, a new personal best time by a hundredth over the 2:10.11 she set at the World Championships last summer.
She split 30.56/33.02/33.53/32.99 to finish about a second-and-a-half ahead of Reina Liu’s 2:11.41 in 3rd place.
Liu, who swims for the TAC Titans and just finished her sophomore year of high school, set a new personal best time by a second. Her previous best stood at 2:12.41 from the USA Swimming Futures meet last July.
There were no new Pan Pacs qualifiers in the event, though Kryger will move from priority 3 to priority 1 and Wilm will pick up a 3rd priority 3 event.
Men’s 200 Back – Final
- World Record: 1:51.92, Aaron Peirsol (USA) – 2009
- Canadian Record: 1:55.03, Blake Tierney – 2025
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 1:58.07
Top 3 Finishers
- Ethan Ekk — 1:57.58
- Blake Tierney — 1:58.76
- Jaques Harrison — 2:00.55
The men’s 200 backstroke final saw Ethan Ekk pick up his 2nd event win of the meet, stopping the clock in 1:57.58, a full second ahead of Blake Tierney‘s 1:58.76 in 2nd.
Ekk got out fast splitting 27.81/29.74 over his first 100 meters to turn in 57.55. This put him about a second ahead of Tierney’s 28.13/30.38 first 100 splits.
He came home 29.97/30.08 to finish about a second ahead of Tierney who was 30.50/29.75 on his final two 50s.
Ekk and Tierney are both already priority 1 swimmers for Pan Pacs, and their swims will not affect the overall roster numbers.
Jacques Harrison finished 3rd in 2:00.55, dropping a second from his previous best of 2:01.52, which he set at last year’s Trials.
Women’s 50 Fly – Final
- World Record: 24.43, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 2014
- Canadian Record: 25.62, Penny Oleksiak – 2017
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 26.23
Men’s 50 Fly – Final
- World Record: 22.27, Andriy Govorov (UKR) – 2018
- Canadian Record: 22.68, Ilya Kharun – 2025
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 23.36
Women’s 100 Breast – Final
- World Record: 1:04.13, Lilly King (USA) – 2017
- Canadian Record: 1:05.74, Annamay Pierse – 2009
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 1:06.87
Men’s 100 Breast – Final
- World Record: 56.88, Adam Peaty (GBR) – 2019
- Canadian Record: 59.33, Oliver Dawson – 2026
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 59.75
Women’s 800 Free – Fastest Heat
- World Record: 8:04.12, Katie Ledecky (USA) – 2025
- Canadian Record: 8:05.07, Summer McIntosh – 2025
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 8:34.62
Great 200 Back PB for Madison!
Kaylee out for comms and pan pacs 😢
Brittany breaking news on the broadcast.
I read the release – she has glandular fever (mono).
With her 24.51 PB, Gretchen Walsh would be seated 9th going into the Canadian men’s 50 fly A-final.
Summer would have finished 4th in the men’s 400 IM and 400 free finals with her PBs. Would have been fun to watch her have some competition lol
They should let her race with the men. Not even joking.