#KYLIE MASSE SWIMMER MAC#
Mac Neil of London, Ont., is the reigning world champ in 100-metre butterfly.Ītkinson hasn't set hard targets in medals or finals made for Tokyo. Masse, of LaSalle, Ont., is a two-time world champion in 100-metre backstroke since winning bronze in Rio. She also anchored the freestyle relay teams to a pair of bronze medals.Ĭanada then claimed eight medals in the pool and another in open-water swimming in the 2019 world championship in Gwangju, South Korea. "Having raced this last week definitely gave me a lot more confidence."Ĭanadians won six swim medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which tied for the most with track and field athletes.Ī 16-year-old Oleksiak led the charge in the Rio pool with a freestyle gold and butterfly silver. "Without having raced for so long, I think it was really exciting to see what we could do finally in a race again and see how our training has come together in our races," Masse said. "Our athletes certainly rose to the occasion over the last five days."įor the majority of the Canadian team, trials were their first real races in a 50-metre, or long-course pool, in over a year and a half because of the pandemic.
"I think we were the last major swimming nation to run our formal trials, so our athletes and coaches watched the rest of the world compete and post times," Swimming Canada high-performance director John Atkinson said Thursday on a conference call. This year's trials in April were postponed from May and again to June while Ontario grappled with COVID-19. The trials were cancelled in 2020 with the postponement of the Tokyo Games to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 followed by open-water marathon swims Aug. Pool competition in Tokyo runs July 24 to Aug. Sixteen women and 10 men will wear the Maple Leaf at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre and Odaiba Marine Park.
TORONTO - Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak and world champions Kylie Masse and Maggie Mac Neil headline Canada's 26-swimmer team for the Tokyo Olympics.Ĭanada's swim team was announced Thursday after five days of trials at the Pan Am Sports Centre in Toronto.
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