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Top 3 Junior Swimmers in Each Event At The 2016 Rio Olympics

A couple of juniors took the Olympic stage by a storm, including Australia’s 100 free gold medalist Kyle Chalmers, and Canada’s 100 free gold medalist Penny Oleksiak, who won 4 medals in her first Olympic Games.

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Top 3 Junior Swimmers in Each Event Through Rio Day 5

While swimmers like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte continue to add to their Olympic medal career totals, the Rio Olympic Games serve as a first chance for many young swimmers to represent their respective nations on the Olympic stage.

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Kolesnikov Breaks Acevedo’s Junior World Record in the 100 Backstroke

Kliment Kolesnikov of Russia had the swim of the evening at the European Junior Championships setting a new junior world record in the first event…

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Canada Announces Team For Hosted 2016 World Short Course Championships

Three-time NCAA Champion Brittany MacLean will lead a roster of 37 Canadians to their home Short Course World Championships in December.

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MacLean 400 Free – Most Dominant Swim of 2016 Canadian Olympic Trials

At the Canadian 2016 Olympic Swimming Trials, Brittany MacLean won the 400m Freestyle by a dominance margin of 2.5% over all other competitors at the meet.

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Canadian Men Post 3:34.55 Medley Relay, Just Miss Time From Pan Ams

Santo Condorelli gets fired up before swimming the fly leg on the medley relay tonight.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Day 6 Finals Live Recap

Ryan Cochrane will look to qualify for the Olympics in the 1500 free for the third straight Games tonight.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Day 6 Prelims Live Recap

Santo Condorelli will look for redemption today in the 50 free after being disqualified in the 100 fly yesterday.

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Canada, New Zealand Fail To Improve 800 Free Relay Rankings On Night 5

Jeremy Bagshaw and the Canadian men tried to improve their 800 free relay ranking at the end of day 5 finals at the Canadian Olympic Trials.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

Penny Oleksiak will seek her third individual event for the Olympics tonight in the 100 free, coming into tonight as the top seed.

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2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

Santo Condorelli will finally get in on the action at trials this morning in the 100m free prelims.

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WATCH: Emily Overholt Makes The Olympic Team With Sydney Pickrem

Last night Sydney Pickrem won one of the closest head-to-head matchups at these Trials, taking down Canadian record holder Emily Overholt in the 400m IM to secure her spot on the Canadian squad for this year’s Olympic Games.

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WATCH: Javier Acevedo On New Junior World Record

As if qualifying for the Olympic team wasn’t enough, Javier Acevedo broke the junior world record in the 100m backstroke en route to his first place finish.

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Javier Acevedo Smashes 100m Backstroke Junior World Record

As if qualifying for the Olympic team wasn’t enough, Javier Acevedo broke the junior world record in the 100m backstroke en route to his first place finish.

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3 Big Things From Day Two of Canadian Olympic Trials

More favourites tonight went down as two new faces will be representing Canada in Rio…

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