2024 CANADIAN OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC TRIALS
- May 13-19, 2024
- Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre – Toronto, Ontario
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Soon after the conclusion of the 2024 Canadian Trials in Toronto on Sunday night, Swimming Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee unveiled a roster of 29 swimmers headed to Paris this summer — including two discretionary additions.
The Canadian squad is headlined by world record holder Summer McIntosh, who qualified in five individual events: the 400 free, 200 free, 400 IM, 200 fly, and 200 IM. The versatile 17-year-old phenom lowered her own global standard in the 400 IM from 4:25.87 to 4:24.38 on Thursday night.
Sprint star Josh Liendo appears poised for a huge Olympics after equaling or bettering his lifetime bests across all three individual events he’ll be contesting: the 50 free, 100 free, and 100 fly.
“I’m pretty happy to be able to qualify in my top five events, so going into Paris I’m super excited,” McIntosh said. “I think it’s going to be an amazing meet, and not just for me but for all of Team Canada. I was just watching Josh (Liendo, who just swam a Canadian record moments before) and it gave me a lot of motivation.”
Maggie MacNeil also returns for her second Olympics aiming to become the first back-to-back champion in the 100 butterfly, but she will be without her LSU coach, Rick Bishop, in Paris despite a lobbying effort this week.
Kylie Masse looked strong this week with wins in the 100 back and 200 back, posting her fastest times since Tokyo.
“I’m motivated by my teammates, my national team teammates, my coaches. I’m motivated by my competitors in Canada and around the world,” Masse said. “I think every day brings a different motivation, sometimes it’s just motivation to get through the week and other times it’s a bigger motivation. Like anything in life, I think it’s just about continuing to show up and be disciplined in what I do, be disciplined in the skills that I’m working on and trying to perfect every detail.”
“There’s a couple of us now that will have been on a couple of Olympic teams, so to be there with people that have done it before and to be there with fresh excited new faces is also a blessing,” she added. “I hope to just be there for everyone in whatever way I can support them and help their Olympic journey to achieve great performances.”
Swimmers qualified individually for the Canadian team by earning a top-2 finish at Trials and clocking an Olympic ‘A’ cut during the qualifying period. Medley relay spots were awarded to the top finishers in the 100 breast, 100 back, and 100 fly while freestyle relay berths were earned by way of top-4 showings in the 100 free and 200 free.
Canadian swimming also leaders opted for two discretionary relay additions. Rebecca Smith was chosen for freestyle relay support after placing 5th in the 100 free (54.70). She also contest the 4×100 free relay in Tokyo a few years ago, helping Canada win silver.
Apollo Hess also received a discretionary medley relay roster spot thanks to his runner-up finish in the 100 breast (1:00.99) close behind Finlay Knox (1:00.66). Paris will be the first Olympics for Hess and second for Knox.
Check out the full roster below:
Swimmers
- Javier Acevedo (Toronto, Ont.) — 100 back, 4×100 free relay
- Sophie Angus (Weston, USA) — 100 breast, 4×100 medley relay
- Alex Axon (Newmarket, Ont.) — 4×200 free relay
- Jeremy Bagshaw (Victoria, B.C.) — 4×200 free relay
- Julie Brousseau (Ottawa, Ont.) — 4×200 free relay
- Brooklyn Douthwright (Riverview, N.B.) — 4×100 free relay
- Emma Finlin (Edmonton, Alta.) — open water (10km)
- Mary-Sophie Harvey (Trois-Rivieres, Que.) — 100 fly, 200 free, 4×100 free relay, 4×200 free relay
- Apollo Hess (Lethbridge, Alta.) — 4×100 medley relay
- Patrick Hussey (Beaconsfield, Que.) — 4×200 free relay
- Tristan Jankovics (Puslinch, Ont.) — 400 IM
- Ella Jansen (Burlington, Ont.) — 400 IM
- Ilya Kharun (Montreal, Que.) — 200 fly, 100 fly
- Yuri Kisil (Calgary, Alta.) — 100 free, 4×100 free relay
- Finlay Knox (Okotoks, Alta.) — 200 IM, 4×100 medley relay, 4×100 free relay
- Josh Liendo (Toronto, Ont.) — 100 free, 50 free, 100 fly, 4×100 free relay, 4×100 medley relay
- Margaret (Maggie) Mac Neil (London, Ont.) — 100 fly, 4×100 medley relay
- Kylie Masse (Lasalle, Ont.) — 100 back, 200 back, 4×100 medley relay
- Summer McIntosh (Toronto, Ont.) — 400 free, 200 free, 400 IM, 200 fly, 200 IM, 4×200 free relay
- Emma O’Croinin (Edmonton, Alta.) — 4×200 free relay
- Penny Oleksiak (Toronto, Ont.) — 4×100 free relay, 4×100 medley relay
- Sydney Pickrem (Halifax, N.S.) — 200 breast, 200 IM
- Regan Rathwell (Ashton, Ont.) — 200 back
- Taylor Ruck (Kelowna, B.C.) — 50 free, 4×100 free relay
- Rebecca Smith (Red Deer, Alta.) — 4×100 free relay
- Blake Tierney (Saskatoon, Sask.) — 100 back, 200 back, 4×100 medley relay
- Lorne Wigginton (Calgary, Alta.) — 4×200 free relay
Ingrid Wilm (Calgary, Alta.) — 100 back - Kelsey Wog (Winnipeg, Man.) — 200 breast
Coaching Staff
- Brent Arckey (Raleigh, USA) – Coach
- Greg Arkhurst (Montreal, Que.) – Coach
- Vlastimil Cerny (Winnipeg, Man.) – Coach
- Dave Johnson (Calgary, Alta.) – Coach
- Linda Kiefer (Toronto, Ont.) – Coach
- Ryan Mallette (Montreal, Que.) – Head Coach
- Mark Perry (Stittsville, Ont.) – Open Water Coach
- Scott Talbot (Canberra, Australia) – Coach
Additional Support
- John Atkinson (Ottawa, Ont.) – High Performance Director
- Meghan Buttle (Toronto, Ont.) – Physiotherapist
- Ron Castro (Toronto, Ont.) – Massage Therapist
- Jan Hanan (Victoria, B.C.) – Team Manager
- Iain McDonald (Montreal, Que.) – Assistant High Performance Director
- Suzanne Moroney (Halifax, N.S) – Massage Therapist
- Graham Olson (Saskatoon, Sask.) – Performance Analysis
- Tom Vandenbogaerde (Vancouver, B.C.) – Performance Scientist
- Nathan White (Fredericton, N.B.) – Media Attaché
Open water swimmer Emma Finlin initially thought she didn’t qualify for the Paris Olympics based on her result at the 2024 World Championships in February. But ultimately she was awarded the unallocated spot meant for Oceania, which did not have enough competitors to fill its continental quota.
“I am very happy with the make-up of the Swimming Canada Olympic team, the Trials have been a great event and the outcome can be seen with the strength of the team announced,” said John Atkinson, High Performance Director of Swimming Canada. “There have been world-class performances from many of our athletes across both male and female events, and that is extremely pleasing from the Trials. The team has quality at the world level in many events and now the focus for all our team members is to prepare for improvement and progression from Trials to Games and be ready for 9 days of competition in the pool in Paris.”
Ella Jansen wtf.. 2:14 tonight?
Why is Brent Arckey listed as hailing from Raleigh?
China clobbers Canada in the W 4 x 100 FR-R and the W 4 x 200 FR-R. I have serious doubts Canada can beat China in the women’s 4 x 100 meter medley relay.
2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships
W 100 FR
Yang, Junxuan – 52.68
Wu, Qingfeng – 53.25
Cheng, Yujie – 53.27
China should be banned
Not happening
One country relies on drugs..I,ll bet on the country that doesn’t.
The ceremony at the end where they announced the team was so wholesome. It’s been great to follow each of the swimmers on their respective journey’s and see their years of hard work pay off. Can’t wait to cheer on team Canada this summer!
Is there any swimmer that has made on OQT time since March 1st 2024 that is not on the team or not in that event based on what is on this page?
Shona Branton and Alexanne Lepage in the 100m breaststroke
Their A cuts predate March 1, 2024.
And even if they did swim their times in the time period, neither came top 2 at trials anyway
McMillan 200 medley
Let Penny swim the 100 free individually! She was just shy of the OQT (0.05) and will already be at the Games. Canada can enter her as sole swimmer in the event with her OCT and not affect the roster or quota spots.
It’s not up to Swimming Canada. It will depend on World Aquatics and their quotas.
Summer actually seems beatable in the 2 IM if she gave her best effort. I think she will certainly make the podium but I have to go with Dougie for gold.
Not if she drops the 200 free and 400 free.
A relatively fresh Summer Mcintosh will be almost unbeatable in the 200 IM given the improvement in breaststroke that we saw in the 400 IM and her closing freestyle speed. Also, I actually think the closest to her when she is relative fresh without having to swim a million events will be kaylee McKeown not Kate Douglas.
Unbeatable? She is only unbeatable in the 400IM. 2 completely different races. They aren’t even close to the same. Did you see how easily Harvey reeled her in that breast leg? What do you think Kate will do? Kate wont fall apart on the free leg. In fact, I think Kate will outsplit McIntosh in the free. It will be a dogfight. Kate’s weakness is her backstroke so thats where things will be interesting.
Why would she drop the 4 free?
Read my comment again. I said Almost unbeatable.
And what was summer mcintosh,s breaststroke split in the first 50 breast of her 400 IM swim again?
Agreed.
Like Summer, Kaylee doesn’t have a weak stroke.
Technically Kaylee’s butterfly is her weak point, taking into account that it is almost a second slower than Summer and Kate’s, even Alex
Doubt she drops the 400 free. Titmus may be considered the favorite, but considering Summer just dropped a second in the 400 IM from the same meet she went her 3:56 free, I don’t see why she can’t do the same or more in the free. (Plus she dropped 3 seconds when she went 3:56, so I doubt she’s plateau’d there)
There is such a thing called too many events.
If she wants to maximize her gold medal chances, she would have to drop like two events especially if she is also swimming relays. This is just a sad reality.
And the two most obvious events for her to drop if she is to drop events are the 200 free and 400 free.
You don’t want to swum the 400 free and 400 IM together. One of them needs to be dropped.
She should definitely drop the 200 free. No question.
I think she can handle the 400 but if she was going to only swim 3 events then the 400 free does seem like the second one to drop
Agree. 4 events plus finals of 2 free relays will be tough but probably managable given she has sufficient MOE in most of those events to not have to “nuke herself” getting to the finals. 5 ….. is probably too much.
She’s not gonna be relatively fresh even if she drops the 200 free because she will add relays and semis and the rounds will be much faster than the heats at trials.
In that case she would need to drop the 200 free and 400 free as I stated earlier.
Summer is going to have a great Olympics but maybe not what some of the swimswam fans may think.
I see the following
Gold 400 IM
Bronze 400 free
Silver 200fly
Bronze in 3 relays.
I don’t see her winning a medal in the 200 IM or 200 free unless she finds another level in Paris. That being said 6 Olympic medals at one Olympics would still be an incredible accomplishment
Nobody is beating her in the 2fly summer is a better flyer than smith regardless of times
2IM I have her, Kate, and either Alex or kaylee on the podium. I dont see how she doesnt make the podium.
The W 200 IM may be the only event Alex Walsh swims at the 2024 Summer Olympics since I have my doubts Alex Walsh will qualify in the W 200 BR. The other contenders will have packed schedules leading up to Day 7 of the competition.
She will probably get none from the relays
I will agree with the exception of the 200 Fly.
Canada is not getting medals in all 3 relays
I think Canada is unlikely to get any relay medals. I hope I’m wrong, but I think all three will be AUS, US, and China.
If they manage to sneak a medal it’ll be in the medley relay.
Almost certainly won’t be seeded as one of the top 3 but, on the evidence of these Trials, they look significantly better than 2023.
Would probably have them as “next cab on the rank” for all 3 women’s relays and we have yet to see what impacts the CHN/WADA fracas may have psychologically given the media aren’t going to let it go.
Prohibitive favourite for gold in 400IM
Favourite 200FLY
Lineball call 200IM
Legitimate chance in 400FR but safer bet is for medal
Medal bet 200FR unless both AUS are way off form
Clear chances of 5 individual medals but flipside being chasing all 5 is likely to compromise winning chances in some. 200FR is the obvious cull.
At this point, I would call 2 golds. 200IM = I would wait till after both AUS & US Trials before making a firm call. Thinking 4 individual medals (at least 2 golds), some chance of a relay medal.
Summer better get out fast on the first 100. Those girls will be coming for her on the breast leg. If she doesn’t get passed by much, I think she runs anyone down on the last 50.
I don’t think Summer has ever been considered unbeatable in the 200
Kharun is channeling his inner NCAA-era Joseph Schooling with those Marchand comments lol
Kharun is a Marchand fanboy
Ilya and Leon have trained together at Arizona State University Sun Devils since last September and are good friends
That’s all the ISL was missing really…a smack talk interview room a la WWF with Gene Okerlund.
And a lot of money!
Gene Okerlund……..I miss him.
*Chad Le Clos has entered the chat*
Isn’t Finlay Knox also technically qualified for the men’s 4x100m freestyle ?