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Toronto Swim Club 6 April 2022: Canadian Trials Victoria, Canada [22] 100m backstroke: 57.70 Kylie Masse: Toronto Swim Club 19 June 2021: Canadian Olympic Trials Toronto, Canada [23] 200m backstroke: 2:05.42 Kylie Masse Canada 31 July 2021: Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [24] 50m breaststroke: 30.23 Amanda Reason: Etobicoke Swim Club 8 July 2009
Maggie Mac Neil – Swimming, Women's 100 m butterfly; Maude Charron - Weightlifting, Women's 64kg; Susanne Grainger, Lisa Roman, Christine Roper, Sydney Payne, Madison Mailey, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Avalon Wasteneys, Andrea Proske, and Kristen Kit - Rowing, Women's eight
The swimming events at the 1896 Olympic Games were held in a bay in the Aegean Sea with swimmers being required to swim to the shore—Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós won two gold medals that year, saying "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."
Hannah Margaret McNair "Maggie" Mac Neil [note 1] OLY (born 26 February 2000) is a Canadian former competitive swimmer. [2] [1] A 100 metre butterfly event specialist, she is the 2020 Olympic champion, 2019 World (LC) champion, two-time World (SC) champion (2021, 2022), 2022 Commonwealth champion, and 2023 Pan American champion. [3]
In 2004, Canada failed to win a medal of any colour in swimming for the first time in 40 years. At the Tokyo Olympics, Penny Oleksiak became the most decorated Canadian Olympian of all time, winning a total of 7 medals. At the Paris Olympics in 2024, Summer McIntosh became Canada's first three time Olympic gold medalist in swimming.
This record was soon broken by previous record holder Grant Hackett, who swam a time of 14:38.92. [3] He qualified in second position for the final, and won the bronze medal on August 17. [4] It was the first Olympic medal for a Canadian swimmer since the 1996 Summer Olympics. It was the first medal for Canada in the 1500m freestyle in 88 years ...
McIntosh already made headlines in February with her 800 freestyle win over decorated American Katie Ledecky at a meet in Orlando, Florida, clocking a Canadian-record 8:11.39.
He held the world record at the time of the 1980 Olympics, in which he did not race due to the boycott. The world record stood for 18 months and was a Canadian record for 20 years. Szmidt swam in competition with Russian swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, who dominated long-distance freestyle swimming in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Szmidt's 400 ...