The 2019 Canadian Swimming Trials from Toronto got started Wednesday morning with the heats of the 100 back, 200 breast and 50 fly, along with the heats of the 100 back para events. Reigning World Champion Kylie Masse put up the world’s fastest 100 back this morning and showed she is ready to get her world record back that she lost last summer to American Kathleen Baker.
Women’s 100 Back
Former world record holder Kylie Masse showed up in a big way Wednesday morning at the 2019 Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto with a 58.19 in the 100 back heats to just miss Kathleen Baker’s world record of 58.00. Masse was slightly off her Canadian record of 58.10 that she set at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest that stood as the world record until Baker broke it last summer.
Masse is ahead of a stacked field that includes former junior standouts Kayla Sanchez (59.82) and Jade Hannah (59.92). Taylor Ruck, coming off her freshman year at Stanford, is seeded fourth at 1:00.09. Another swimming coming off NCAAs, Louise Hansson (1:00.69), is seeded seventh for the final after winning two events at NCAAs two weeks ago.
Madison Broad (1:00.56), Danielle Hanus (1:00.65), Kennedy Goss (1:01.45), Hannah Henderson (1:01.60) and Kristie Steins (1:01.82) also placed in the top ten.
Event 1 Women 100 LC Meter Backstroke
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2019 FINA A: W 1:00.59
2020 TRIALS: T 1:04.51
Name Year Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Masse, Kylie 96 TSC 58.54 58.19W q
r:+0.46 28.21 58.19 (29.98)
2 Sanchez, Kayla 01 AAC 1:00.50 59.82W q
r:+0.49 29.16 59.82 (30.66)
3 Hannah, Jade 02 ISC 1:00.76 59.92W q
r:+0.49 28.74 59.92 (31.18)
4 Ruck, Taylor 00 SCAR 58.97 1:00.09W q
r:+0.53 29.05 1:00.09 (31.04)
5 Broad, Madison 00 CYPS 1:00.63 1:00.56W q
r:+0.60 29.45 1:00.56 (31.11)
6 Hanus, Danielle 98 ISC 1:00.54 1:00.65T q
r:+0.52 29.24 1:00.65 (31.41)
7 *Hansson, Louis 96 UNAT 1:01.21 1:00.69T q
r:+0.55 29.29 1:00.69 (31.40)
8 Goss, Kennedy 96 GGST 1:02.63 1:01.45T q
r:+0.53 30.06 1:01.45 (31.39)
9 Henderson, Hann 02 ESWIM 1:01.99 1:01.60T q
r:+0.54 29.79 1:01.60 (31.81)
10 *Steins, Kristi 95 LVA 1:02.55 1:01.82T q
r:+0.58 30.12 1:01.82 (31.70)
Men’s 100 Back
Markus Thormeyer took advantage of no Javier Acevedo in the men’s 100 back heats at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto with a 53.83 to lead the qualifiers. Thormeyer is ahead of Dylan Carter (54.60), who is not eligible to represent Canada at the World Championships. The second fastest Canadian was Cole Pratt (55.42).
Singaporean Zheng Quah (55.45) has the fourth fastest time from this morning as he is not far removed from the Men’s NCAAs that were last week in Austin where he helped his Cal Golden Bears win the NCAA title.
Robert Hill (55.91), Tyler Wall (55.99), Anders Klein (56.12), Sebastian Somerset (56.16) Loc St-Martin (56.23) and Tim Zeng (56.47) also swam in the top ten this morning.
Event 2 Men 100 LC Meter Backstroke
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2019 FINA A: W 54.06
2020 TRIALS: T 58.88
Name Year Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Thormeyer, Mark 97 UBCSC 53.78 53.83W q
r:+0.61 25.92 53.83 (27.91)
2 *Carter, Dylan 96 UNAT 55.35 54.60T q
r:+0.51 25.93 54.60 (28.67)
3 Pratt, Cole 02 CASC 55.98 55.42T q
r:+0.57 26.96 55.42 (28.46)
4 *Quah, Zheng We 96 SGP 54.69 55.45T q
r:+0.43 26.47 55.45 (28.98)
5 Hill, Robert 96 UCSC 55.71 55.91T q
r:+0.48 27.19 55.91 (28.72)
6 Wall, Tyler 01 KISU 56.15 55.99T q
r:+0.45 26.96 55.99 (29.03)
7 Klein, Anders 97 UCSC 56.22 56.12T q
r:+0.48 27.33 56.12 (28.79)
8 Somerset, Sebas 01 CASC 55.99 56.16T q
r:+0.51 27.10 56.16 (29.06)
9 St-Martin, Loďc 00 CAMO 56.87 56.23T q
r:+0.59 27.26 56.23 (28.97)
10 Zeng, Tim 97 CHENA 56.69 56.47T q
r:+0.47 27.08 56.47 (29.39)
Women’s 200 Breast
Also coming off the NCAA meet not too long ago is Sydney Pickrem, who is the top seed in the 200 breast at 2:26.06. Pickrem is ahead of fellow 2016 Olympian Kierra Smith (2:26.16) for tonight’s final as it will be a good race between those two and Kelsey Wog (2:26.68).
Miranda Stever (2:27.95) dropped two seconds off her best time as she qualified fourth for the final tonight.
All ten fastest qualifiers are all Canadian which shows good signs for Swimming Canada moving forward. Avery Wiseman (2:28.66), Nina Kucheran (2:28.86), Mary-Sophie Harvey (2:29.47), Bailey Herbert (2:29.72), Tess Cieplucha (2:30.38) and Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson (2:31.17) also qualified for the final.
Kucheran (Florida State) and Cieplucha (Tennessee) are also coming off the Women’s NCAA meet that concluded two weeks ago.
Event 3 Women 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
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2019 FINA A: W 2:25.91
2020 TRIALS: T 2:38.35
Name Year Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Pickrem, Sydney 97 UNCAN 2:24.41 2:26.06T q
r:+0.61 33.37 1:10.65 (37.28)
1:48.35 (37.70) 2:26.06 (37.71)
2 Smith, Kierra 94 SCAR 2:23.62 2:26.16T q
r:+0.70 33.46 1:10.75 (37.29)
1:48.04 (37.29) 2:26.16 (38.12)
3 Wog, Kelsey 98 UMAN 2:23.83 2:26.68T q
r:+0.56 33.26 1:10.38 (37.12)
1:48.04 (37.66) 2:26.68 (38.64)
4 Stever, Miranda 98 TSC 2:29.87 2:27.95T q
r:+0.64 33.26 1:10.67 (37.41)
1:48.92 (38.25) 2:27.95 (39.03)
5 Wiseman, Avery 02 OSC 2:28.20 2:28.66T q
r:+0.71 33.27 1:11.08 (37.81)
1:49.45 (38.37) 2:28.66 (39.21)
6 Kucheran, Nina 00 SLSC 2:28.19 2:28.86T q
r:+0.60 33.64 1:11.08 (37.44)
1:49.04 (37.96) 2:28.86 (39.82)
7 Harvey, Mary-So 99 CAMO 2:29.26 2:29.47T q
r:+0.64 34.20 1:12.80 (38.60)
1:51.11 (38.31) 2:29.47 (38.36)
8 Herbert, Bailey 02 LOSC 2:29.47 2:29.72T q
r:+0.69 33.93 1:12.19 (38.26)
1:50.45 (38.26) 2:29.72 (39.27)
9 Cieplucha, Tess 98 OAK 2:36.58 2:30.38T q
r:+0.70 34.48 1:12.64 (38.16)
1:51.21 (38.57) 2:30.38 (39.17)
10 Seltenreich-Hod 95 GO 2:33.31 2:31.17T q
r:+0.57 33.93 1:11.65 (37.72)
1:50.79 (39.14) 2:31.17 (40.38)
Men’s 200 Breast
James Dergousoff had the top time in the 200 breast prelims with a 2:12.57 ahead of Eli Wall (2:13.42) and Connor Isings (2:16.05). The men’s breaststroke events are wide open in Canada especially without long-time veteran Richard Funk, who is only entered in the 50 and 100 breast this meet. Funk was the silver medalist in the 200 breast at the 2015 Pan American Games but has seemingly retired from this event at 26-years-of-age.
Jaren LeFranc (2:16.16) and Benjamin Blackmon (2:16.16) tied for the fourth seed for the final with all ten of the fastest times this morning coming from Canadians.
Jonathan Naisby (2:16.40), Tristan Cote (2:17.38) Gabe Mastromatteo (2:17.82), Finlay Knox (2:19.09) and Brodie Young (2:19.69) also qualified for the final.
Event 4 Men 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
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2019 FINA A: W 2:11.00
2020 TRIALS: T 2:22.41
Name Year Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Dergousoff, Jam 96 CHENA 2:17.81 2:12.57T q
r:+0.72 30.46 1:03.68 (33.22)
1:37.29 (33.61) 2:12.57 (35.28)
2 Wall, Eli 95 TSC 2:11.47 2:13.42T q
r:+0.75 30.17 1:03.73 (33.56)
1:38.11 (34.38) 2:13.42 (35.31)
3 Isings, Connor 98 PCSC 2:15.67 2:16.05T q
r:+0.78 30.29 1:04.26 (33.97)
1:39.54 (35.28) 2:16.05 (36.51)
4 LeFranc, Jaren 99 KISU 2:15.85 2:16.16T q
r:+0.74 31.18 1:05.60 (34.42)
1:40.32 (34.72) 2:16.16 (35.84)
4 Blackmon, Benja 96 CHENA 2:17.61 2:16.16T q
r:+0.68 31.20 1:05.94 (34.74)
1:40.50 (34.56) 2:16.16 (35.66)
6 Naisby, Jonatha 93 SHER 2:14.91 2:16.40T q
r:+0.71 31.00 1:05.62 (34.62)
1:40.60 (34.98) 2:16.40 (35.80)
7 Cote, Tristan 95 UCSC 2:19.18 2:17.38T q
r:+0.77 31.33 1:05.88 (34.55)
1:41.10 (35.22) 2:17.38 (36.28)
8 Mastromatteo, G 02 KSS 2:15.53 2:17.82T q
r:+0.63 30.96 1:07.30 (36.34)
1:42.83 (35.53) 2:17.82 (34.99)
9 Knox, Finlay 01 MAVS 2:17.60 2:19.09T q
r:+0.74 31.64 1:08.09 (36.45)
1:43.63 (35.54) 2:19.09 (35.46)
10 Young, Brodie 00 UBCSC 2:19.76 2:19.69T q
r:+0.82 31.47 1:06.87 (35.40)
1:43.47 (36.60) 2:19.69 (36.22)
Women’s 50 Fly
Olympic gold medalist Penny Oleksiak (26.08) had the fastest time of the morning in the 50 butterfly heats on Wednesday morning at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto. Oleksiak is ahead of Swede Louise Hansson (26.31) who had the fastest 100 fly in short course yards not too long ago. Former Auburn swimmer Haley Black (26.77)
Event 5 Women 50 LC Meter Butterfly
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2019 FINA A: W 26.34
Name Year Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Oleksiak, Penel 00 TSC 25.88 26.08W q
r:+0.73
2 *Hansson, Louis 96 UNAT 26.11 26.31W q
r:+0.72
3 Black, Haley 96 PGB 26.87 26.77 q
r:+0.68
4 Watson, Sarah 00 UMAN 27.25 26.93 q
5 Fazekas, Sadie 97 WAC 27.72 26.98 q
r:+0.64
5 Hannah, Jade 02 ISC 27.09 26.98 q
r:+0.70
7 MacNeil, Margar 00 LAC 26.99 26.99 q
r:+0.68
8 Leibel, Kyla 01 RDCSC 27.50 27.13 q
r:+0.76
9 *Tam, Hoi Lam 98 UBCSC 27.39 27.23 q
r:+0.70
10 Hanus, Danielle 98 ISC 27.63 27.37 q
r:+0.73
10 *Nogaj, Paulina 98 AKRN 27.72 27.37 q
r:+0.72
Men’s 50 Fly
Will Pisani is on top in the 50 fly heats with a 23.85. Pisani is not far removed from the Men’s NCAA meet last week where he represented Florida State. He is ahead of former Auburn swimmer Luis Martinez (23.86), who represents Guatemala. Nikola Miljenic, who swims for Southern California (24.09) is the third seed.
The second fastest Canadian from the morning was Josiah Binnema (24.54) with Joshua Liendo (24.70) in the third fastest Canadian spot.
Event 6 Men 50 LC Meter Butterfly
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2019 FINA A: W 23.66
Name Year Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Pisani, William 97 UNCAN 24.24 23.85
r:+0.72
2 *Martínez, Luis 95 GUA 23.26 23.86
r:+0.67
3 *Miljenic, Niko 98 UNAT 24.13 24.09
r:+0.70
4 Binnema, Josiah 97 UBCSC 24.30 24.54
5 *Carter, Dylan 96 UNAT 23.11 24.69
r:+0.68
6 Liendo, Joshua 02 NYAC 25.10 24.70
r:+0.67
7 Perreault, Alex 98 OTTSC 24.21 24.72
r:+0.63
7 *Robrock, Kyle 93 DU-CO 24.26 24.72
r:+0.69
9 Cruz Zuniga, Gu 00 CAMO 24.88 24.75
r:+0.71
10 Ayoubi, Mehdi 98 CAMO 24.59 24.83
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