Kylie Masse, Joshua Liendo Enhance Nationwide Data; Maggie Mac Neil Skipping Solo Occasions at Worlds
Kylie Masse and Joshua Liendo hold transferring the usual ahead in Canadian swimming, every reducing their data on Evening 2 of the 2022 Bell Canadian Trials.
Masse powered previous Ingrid Wilm to decrease her nationwide file within the 50 backstroke to 27.18 seconds. Liendo lowered his mark within the males’s 100 butterfly by greater than half a second to 50.88.
First Masse, who confronted a stiff problem from Wilm, the 2 dueling all through final ISL season. Masse ended up retaking her file final month in 27.52, them promptly dashed a quarter-second off it to 27.18. The time is withing two tenths of Xiang Liu’s world file from 2018 (26.98).
Wilm was second din 27.80. Third was Mary-Sophie Harvey in 28.32. Kayla Sanchez had gone 28.21 in prelims earlier than scratching the ultimate.
Occasion 13 Ladies 50 LC Meter Backstroke
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WORLD: w 26.98 2018-08-21Xiang Liu, CHN
CAN: n 27.52 2022-03-04Kylie Masse, TSC
Identify Yr Group Prelims Finals FINA
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=== A - Ultimate ===
1 Kylie Masse 96 TSC 27.65 27.18n 978
r:+0.54
2 Wilm, Ingrid Okay 98 CASC 28.04 27.80 914
r:+0.61
3 Harvey, Mary-Sophie 99 CAMO 28.30 28.32 864
r:+0.58
Liendo had no firm out in entrance of the sector. The fast-rising sprinter went out in 23.63 and got here again in 27.25 to win in 50.88. He had practically downed his nationwide file with a 51.58 in prelims and left little question within the closing, erasing the 51.40 from Olympic Trials final yr.
Finlay Knox was the closest to maintain him firm in 51.86.
Occasion 16 Males 100 LC Meter Butterfly
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WORLD: w 49.50 2019-07-26Caeleb Dressel, USA
CAN: n 51.40 2021-06-19Joshua Liendo, NYAC
Identify Yr Group Prelims Finals FINA
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=== A - Ultimate ===
1 Liendo, Joshua 02 NYAC 51.58 50.88n 920
r:+0.63 23.63 50.88 (27.25)
2 Knox, Finlay 01 SCAR 53.55 51.86 869
r:+0.67 24.14 51.86 (27.72)
3 Ogilvie, Keir 02 UBCT 53.77 53.49 792
r:+0.62 24.82 53.49 (28.67)
4 Calkins, Stephe 98 UCSC 54.43 54.77 738
r:+0.62 25.14 54.77 (29.63)
The opposite high-profile win got here with an addendum: Maggie Mac Neil, the reigning Olympic champion within the girls’s 100 butterfly, received the occasion in 57.13, properly off her Canadian file of 55.83. However Mac Neil revealed in an interview with CBC that she’s going to eschew the person occasion at Worlds to swim solely relays, citing her psychological well being.
“It’s hard to stay at the top and that pressure really got to me,” Mac Neil stated. “I need a chill summer. I don’t want to be out of international competition. I want to train and compete well for Canada but I needed that little bit of a let up I guess.”
“Your mental and physical health comes before you as an athlete. So they (Swimming Canada) definitely have been thinking of us as a person first which is so important. I’m grateful for that.”
That opens a spot for Katerine Savard, seven years MacNeil’s senior, to step in. Savard went 58.01 to complete second in finals (she had been 57.86 in prelims) and has been posting some of her best times since her early 20s. Rebecca Smith was third in 58.76, although that’s past the FINA A typical of 58.33.
vent 15 Ladies 100 LC Meter Butterfly
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WORLD: w 55.48 2016-08-07Sarah Sjostrom, SWE
CAN: n 55.83 2019-07-22Margaret MacNeil, LAC
Identify Yr Group Prelims Finals FINA
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=== A - Ultimate ===
1 MacNeil, Margar 00 LAC 58.78 57.13 915
r:+0.66 26.88 57.13 (30.25)
2 Savard, Katerin 93 CAMO 57.86 58.01 874
r:+0.65 27.03 58.01 (30.98)
3 Smith, Rebecca 00 UCSC 59.22 58.76 841
r:+0.71 26.97 58.76 (31.79)
Elsewhere, Canada might discover itself with yet one more feminine distance phenom on its arms. No, not Summer time McIntosh. Not, not 17-year-old Olympian Katrina Bellio.
No, as an alternative it was 16-year-old Abby Dunford profitable the ladies’s mile Wednesday night time, going 16:20.26 to get greater than 9 seconds underneath the FINA A typical. Dunford, who trains with burgeoning American distance powerhouse Sandpipers of Nevada, dropped 15.49 seconds off her seed time.
Within the course of, she upended Bellio, who completed second in 16:34.24. Bellio’s prime time is a 16:24.37.
Loic Courville Fortin, an 18-year-old, received the lads’s 50 backstroke in 25.98. That’s properly shy of the FINA A typical of 25.17. The 2 prime occasions within the morning have been set by Greek swimmer Vaggelis Makrygiannis in 25.48 and Poland’s Kacper Stokowski in 25.84.
Eric Brown received the lads’s 800 free in 7:59.68, the one swimmer underneath eight minutes. The FINA lower is 7:53.11.
