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- Prelims each day begin at 10 am EST/7 am PST
- Finals each day begin at 6 pm EST/3 pm PST
The Canadian Pan American Games and World Championship trials started this morning in Toronto. The first event up was the women’s 50 butterfly.
Women’s 50 butterfly
Sam Corea of the UBC Dolphins lead the way in the event recording a time of 26.43 which is six one-hundredths of a second faster than her lifetime best of 26.49 which she posted last year at the Canadian Summer Championships. Noemie Thomas of UNAR qualified just behind Corea posting a time of 26.48.
Canadian record holder Katerine Savard qualified in the third place position post a 26.63. Savard posted her Canadian record time of 26.05 in 2013.
Michelle Williams of the North York Aquatic Club qualified in fourth while Sandrine Mainville, the reigning Canadian champion, qualified in fifth.
Men’s 50 butterfly
As we will for most of the competition the prelims will be dominated by a number of foreign athletes. Erik Risolvato of Puerto Rico was the fastest qualifier posting a time of 23.78. Santo Condorelli was the top Canadian, qualifying in second, recording a time of 23.83. The next two fastest Canadians were Gamel Assaad (24.60) who had the fifth fastest time and Luke Peddie (24.85) who had the ninth fastest time.
Women’s 200 freestyle
The World Championship team spot will be up for the taking as reigning Canadian champion Brittany Maclean has decided to bypass the World Championships in Kazan. Maclean will still be looking to participate in the Pan American Championships which are being held in her hometown of Toronto.
Emily Overholt was the top qualifier in the event after the prelims posting a time of 1:59.45 she was followed by 2014 Canadian trials bronze medalist Alyson Ackman (1:59.46). Kennedy Goss (1:59.79), Katrine Savard (2:00.34), Sam Cheverton (2:00.56) and Brittany Maclean (2:00.88) rounded out the top six in the event.
Men’s 200 freestyle
Once again the men’s event was chalk full of international talent with five of the top 10 swimmers not representing the home nation. Christian Scherubl of Austria had the top time in the morning hitting the wall in a time of 1:59.45.
The top Canadian in the event was Jeremy Bagshaw who posted a 1:49.43. He was followed by Stefan Milosevic (1:50.09), Alec Page (1:50.42) and Tristan Cote (1:51.39).
Women’s 100 backstroke
Kylie Masse had a fantastic swim to be the top qualifier in the women’s f100 backstroke. Masse came into the event with a lifetime best of 1:01.98 and dropped to a 1:00.50 which places her eighth in the world rankings. Hilary Caldwell qualified with the second fastest time of 1:00.82 followed by Dominique Bouchard who posted a 1:00.93.
The biggest surprise in this event is that 2014 Canadian Trials silver medalist Brooklyn Snodgrass did not step up to the blocks in the event and is listed as a no show.
Men’s 100 backstroke
Reigning Canadian champion Russell Wood was the top qualifier in the men’s 100 backstroke posting a 54.16 in the prelims. The performance was also a lifetime best for Wood who came into the competition with a best of 54.45.
Markus Thormeyer continues his habit of re-writing record books. Thormeyer qualified with the second fastest time of 55.75. With that time the 17 year old set a new 15-17 year old Canadian record in the event beating his own record of 55.75 which he posted last summer.
Joe Byram was the third fastest qualifier posting a 56.07. He was followed by Adam Best (56.08), Jeffrey Swanston (56.15), Jeremie Pezwirek (56.52) and Anders Klein (56.85).
Women’s 200 breaststroke
Last year at the Canadian Swimming Trials the 200 breaststroke was a dog fight between Tera Van Belien, Kierra Smith, Martha McCabe and Ashley McGregor. After Smith was disqualified after her morning swim this year’s final will see the rest of the group go head to head once again.
McCabe was the morning’s fastest qualifier posting a time of 2:26.67. She was followed by Rachel Nicol (2:29.81), reigning Canadian champion Van Beilen (2:30.07), Bronwyn Pasloski (2:30.34) and McGregor (2:30.72).
 Men’s 200 breaststroke
Sam Tierney was the fastest qualifier in the men’s event posting a time of 2:12.70. The top Canadian was James Dergousoff who recorded a time of 2:14.45. He was followed by Richard Funk (2:14.95), Eli Wall (2:15.04), James Guest (2:15.48) and Jason Block (2:15.73).
Full results can be found here.
You got any articles on Alex Kouzas or Lauren Casswell
Anyone know why Maclean’s opting out of trying for Worlds? Given her disappointing performance at NCAAs, is she injured?
SWIMFAN – all of the details are here:
http://swimswam.com/brittany-maclean-to-opt-out-of-2015-world-championships/
How is Condorelli canadian? He lives and trains in cal and grew up in Florida and as long as I can remember hes never competed at a canadian meet.
LethSwim – through his mom’s side of the family. More details here: http://swimswam.com/former-us-junior-national-teamer-santo-condorelli-declares-canadian-sporting-citizenship/
Thanks Braden
this might help @LETHSWIM
http://swimswam.com/former-us-junior-national-teamer-santo-condorelli-declares-canadian-sporting-citizenship/
It looks like Kisil and Belanger tied for 10th place among Canadians in the 200 free. Doesn’t that mean there’ll be a swim-off?
Given the exceedingly complex Canadian team selection criteria, will we actually know at the end of finals tonight which swimmers from these events will make which team? Hopefully Mitch or someone else at SwimSwam has a PhD on Atkinson Selection Theory.
They are announcing the team Saturday night after finals.
So we won’t know who makes it until then.
pwb – we’ll have a guess. The good news is that step 3 is just “coach’s discretion,” so we really won’t have any idea besides the obvious ones.
Braden, was Kierra Smith’s DQ overturned, or was Gophergal making an April Fool’s joke?
Danjohnrob – Gophergal is a reliable source, and I’ve spoken to her off-site, it appears as though the DQ was overturned. Now just trying to nail down some details.
Thank you! Not doubting my fellow Swimswammers, but given the date today… I AM curious if the initial DQ was caused by her elbows coming up, as Panam603 suggested. Her stroke must make her a target for that DQ very often.
Does breaststroke have any rules? If so, are they enforceable?
Here’s the run down.
At the end of the meet, John Atkinson gets real drunk, puts all the potential candidates up on a dart board. Everyone he hits makes it to the next round.
Then he starts looking for reasons not to put you on teams. Too young, too old= nope.
Result= Olympic medals??
How do you apply for Atkinson’s job? It sounds like a good one to me! 😉
If anyone knew the selection criteria for the job, Atkinson wouldn’t have it!
10 Lane A/B finals…
Kierra Smith’s DQ was overturned!!
Better not be an April fools joke
You know, I was wondering about that when I watched the race, but why doesn’t she get a DQ in every race? I’m sure her stroke doesn’t change that much from one race to the next!
Her stroke actually changed (although slightly) in that race alone. Kierra’s elbows didn’t appear to be out of the water until after the first 100, and particularly obvious on the last 50.
An observant stroke judge should catch that every time, although it can be difficult to see when there may be a lot of splashing going on.
The last part of the race is where is where I’ve seen this occur with a few swimmers. Getting overly excited I guess…
Having said all that, it’s only speculation that the elbow infraction is why she got disqualified.