Canadian Olympic Trials

Brittany MacLean Smashes Own Canadian Record With 2nd Fastest Time This Season

Brittany MacLean quieted all doubters tonight with a huge 4:03.84 performance in the 400m freestyle to smash her own Canadian record by 1.22 seconds and punch in her ticket for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

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WATCH: Richard Funk On Preparing For Trials In Canada

After a very solid NCAA career at Michigan, Richard Funk chose to take his talents north of the border in order to swim with Ben Titley at the High Performance Centre – Ontario.

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2016 Canadian Paralympic Trials: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Aurelie Rivard comes into tonight with the top seed in the women’s 50 free and 400 free.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Brittany Maclean of Etobicoke will look to make the Olympic team for the second straight time tonight in the 400 free after dominating the prelims.

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WATCH: Zack Chetrat On His Olympic Preperation

2016 CANADIAN OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC TRIALS April 5-10 Prelims: 10 a.m EST Finals: 6 p.m EST Live Results Psych sheets…

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Day 1 Prelims Live Recap

Katerine Savard will compete in the women’s 100 butterfly on day 1 of the 2016 Canadian Olympic Trials.

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Penny Oleksiak Breaks Canadian Record With 5th Fastest Time This Year

Penny Oleksiak took the top seed in the women’s 100m butterfly this morning with a 57.38 performance, breaking the 15-17 Canadian Age Group record and coming within two-tenths of a second off the senior record.

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All The Links You Need For The 2016 Canadian Olympic Trials

The Canadian Olympic Trials start today at 10 a.m as the first set of Canadian hopefuls will take to the pool in hopes of securing a spot for finals later tonight.

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2016 Canadian Paralympic Trials: Day 1 Prelims Live Recap

The 2016 Canadian Paralympic Trials Live Recap.

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Emily Overholt Out Of The 400 Freestyle At Canadian Olympic Trials

Despite being the top seed in the 400m freestyle at this year’s Canadian Trials, Pan American Games gold medallist Emily Overholt will not be swimming the event.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Men’s IM Events Led By White, Reilly

Evan White is the only man in the 200 IM field who has broken two minutes in his career.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Overholt And Pickrem Medley Masters In The Making

Youth seems to be the name of the game in the women’s Canadian medley scene as both Emily Overholt and Sydney Pickrem look to make their first Olympic team. While the two stand out above the rest of the athletes, there’s likely a chance for Canada to send two swimmers in each event, meaning that if Overholt and Pickrem are on their game it will be an absolute dog fight for those two spots.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Savard, Lacroix Look To Dominate Fly

Canada has the potential to put multiple swimmers in both the 100 and 200 fly finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, the question is, who will they be? Katerine Savard, Noemie Thomas, and Penny Oleksiak look to go head-to-head in the 100 whereas the heavy favourite Audrey Lacroix will have to defeat Emily Overholt for her spot on the team.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Condorelli, Chetrat Favored In Butterfly

Zack Chetrat will look to make his first Olympic team in the 200 fly after missing by 0.02 four years ago.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Smith And McCabe Set Up For Breaststroke

The Canadian women’s team is looking to be well rounded with the potential to send a swimmer into the Olympic final in almost every stroke discipline. While women’s backstroke has the most depth in Canadian swimming, women’s breaststroke isn’t far behind. With plenty of top competitors like Rachel Nicol, Kierra Smith, and Martha McCabe, Canada has the potential to send a very solid breaststroke group to Rio.

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