Canada

The Career, Legacy of Swim Nova Scotia’s Ginny Smith

On most days over the past 44 years, Ginny Smith filled the Yarmouth YMCA pool with swimmers, breaking ground for women in coaching and fostering national qualifiers.

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Canada to Host 2022 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Canada will host the 2022 Pan Pacific Championships, though they haven’t announced in which city yet.

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2018 Pan Pacific Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

After breaking the Pan Pacs Record this morning, Murphy is set up for a backstroke sweep and could swim his first sub-1:54 since Rio.

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Water Temps Check In at 25.9C (78.6F) for Pan Pacs Open Water

The open water race course is well-within the FINA temperature standards for Tuesday morning’s open water events.

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2018 Pan Pacs Pick’em Final Results

godawgs17 was the overall winner with 371.5 points. They book ended the meet with days over 100 points to give them a 20.5 margin of victory over Bear drinks beer.

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Ruck Becomes Most Decorated Canadian At Single Pan Pacs With 5 Medals

Taylor Ruck broke the Canadian Record for most medals won at the Pan Pacific Championships with five.

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7 Gold Medals Salvages USA from Historic Lows to Close 2018 Pan Pacs

Ryan Murphy’s win in the 200 back, plus gold from leading off the 400 medley relay, was part of a 7-gold run on Sunday to finish the 2018 Pan Pac Championships.

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2018 Pan Pacs: Andrew Wilson (USA), Jessica Hansen (AUS) Scratch 200 Breast Championship Finals

Andrew Wilson (USA) and Jessica Hansen (AUS) have scratched the individual 200 breast final to focus on their respective relays.

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2018 Pan Pacs: Stacked Men’s 200 Breast Field Lined up for Day 4 Finals

Prenot and Watanabe are in the 2:07-range this year, while Wilson and Koseki have been in the 2:08s.

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2018 Pan Pacific Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

Yasuhiro Koseki is one of the contenders in the men’s 200 breast on day 4 of the Pan Pacific Championships.

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2018 Pan Pacs: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

We have the Olympic champ racing in the 400 free with Mack Horton set to battle Zane Grothe and Jack McLoughlin.

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2018 Pan Pacs Pick’em Day 3 Update: Top 2 Pulling Away

Day 3 ended with a tie atop the overall standings between godawgs17 and yesterday’s leader Rafael with 269.5 points.

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Sydney Pickrem Lowers Canadian 200 IM Record In 2:09.07

Sydney Pickrem broke her own Canadian Record in the 200 IM to win silver at the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo.

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2018 Pan Pacs: Kathleen Baker Scratches 200 IM B Final

Baker is the fastest American this year with her 2:08.32 from Nationals. The scratch moves Bethany Galat up into the B final for a second swim.

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2018 Pan Pacs: Ikee Chasing 100 Fly Gold in Front of the Home Crowd

Japan’s Rikako Ikee has been heaving a great year. She’s the Japanese Record holder in this event after putting up a lifetime best 56.23 this season.

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