Three Olympic medalists headline a nine-member team heading to Asia to represent Canada on the next World Cup cluster.
The third and final FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup cluster is set to begin with three stops in Asia over a 9-day period. The event will kick off Friday in Singapore. Tokyo will then serve as the second host city prior to the conclusion of the event in Hong Kong on Oct. 30. Team Canada is preparing for their return to home soil on Dec. 6-11 for the FINA World Swimming Championships hosted in Windsor, Ont.
FINATv will be streaming the event finals, free of charge. Also, highlights and recaps of the day’s events will be available on the FINA Youtube channel.
Canada’s recent success at Rio 2016 has set the bar high for Canadian swimmers. Hilary Caldwell, Katerine Savard and Michelle Williams each captured bronze medals this past summer. Caldwell won bronze in the 200-m backstroke event. Savard (4×200-m) and Williams (4×100) earned their medals in freestyle relay action. Rachel Nicol, 100-m breaststroke finalist in Rio 2016, gives Team Canada another Olympian looking to carry the momentum into this month’s events.
Jeremy Bagshaw also brings experience on the senior national team. During last summer’s Pan Am Games, he captured a bronze medal in the 4×200-m freestyle relay alongside teammates Ryan Cochrane, Stefan Milosevic and Alec Page. Bagshaw will join the team for the last two stops of the cluster in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Jeremy Bagshaw–Photo Courtesy: Scott Grant/Swimming Canada
Nicolaas Dekker from Richmond Rapids Swim Club will also look to continue his recent success after a strong showing in Edmonton at the 2016 Canadian Swimming Championships. Dekker impressed in the butterfly events, capturing gold in the 200-m and 100-m events and the silver medal in the 50-m event.
Mississauga’s Olivia Anderson will be looking to build upon the success she had while representing Team Canada at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Maui, Hawaii. Anderson, a distance swimmer, was able to win a silver medal in the 1500-m freestyle as well as a bronze medal in the 800-m freestyle event.
Danielle Hanus of Newmarket, Ont., and Victoria’s Sarah Darcel also experienced great success at the Junior Pan Pac Event in Maui. Darcel, 17, returned home with one gold medal in the 400-m individual medley and three silvers. Hanus, 18, swam the backstroke leg for Canada’s second-place 4×100-m medley relay, which Darcel anchored.
Danielle Hanus–Photo Courtesy: Swimming Canada/Scott Grant
Both development team swimmers will join the events starting in Tokyo on Oct. 25. Both have recently joined Caldwell and coach Ryan Mallette at the High Performance Centre – Victoria, where they will have access to world-class facilities, training environment and support services.
| SWIMMERS | Notes | |
| 1 | Anderson, Olivia | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 2 | Bagshaw, Jeremy | Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 3 | Caldwell, Hilary | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 4 | Darcel, Sarah | Tokyo, Hong Kong – development team |
| 5 | Dekker, Nicolaas | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 6 | Hanus, Danielle | Tokyo, Hong Kong – development team |
| 7 | Nicol, Rachel | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 8 | Savard, Katerine | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 9 | Williams, Michelle | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| COACHES | Notes | |
| 1 | Pettifer, Rob | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 2 | Mallette, Ryan | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 3 | McKinnon, Ken | Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| STAFF | Notes | |
| 1 | McDonald, Iain | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 2 | Hanan, Jan | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 3 | Wrigley, Allan | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
| 4 | Douglas-Hunt, Danya | Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong |
Press release courtesy of Swimming Canada.
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