Sebastian Massabie breaks his personal Canadian file at 2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials

Photo courtesy of Swimming Canada

MONTREAL – Paris 2024 Paralympic champion Sebastian Massabie of Surrey, B.C., cruised to victory within the males’s 50m butterfly multiclass ultimate on Monday evening with a Canadian S5 file time of 35.21, reducing his personal mark of 35.83 he set in Winnipeg again in April on the at 2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials.

The 21-year-old representing the Pacific Sea Wolves was reclassified as an S5 athlete after the 2024 Paralympic Games, the place he captured S4 gold within the 50m freestyle. Massabie set world requirements in each the 50m free and 50m fly in that class.   

“It feels real good,” mentioned Massabie, who was competing in his first occasion this week. “I’ve excessive expectations for myself. But above all, each time I leap within the pool, I simply make it possible for I give it my greatest.

“The 50 fly is one of my favourite events. It’s the event in which I beat my first world record as an S4.”

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In different Para swimming multiclass finals, Danielle Dorris of Moncton, N.B. (Club de Natation Bleu et Or) was topped champion within the ladies’s 50m butterfly; Aurélie Rivard of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. (Club de Natation Région de Québec) received the ladies’s 100m free; andReid Maxwellof St. Albert, Alta. (CAMO) took the boys’s 100m free title

Aurélie Rivard lays down the legislation

Rivard, a 13-time Paralympic medallist over 4 Games, graduated final week with a Law Degree from Université Laval. She sat out final season to deal with her research.

‘’It’s been very difficult to juggle each of those demanding fields,’’ Rivard advised CBC’s Devin Heroux at poolside. ‘’I simply graduated final Saturday so it’s very thrilling for me to have a good time one thing aside from swimming for as soon as, nevertheless it additionally marks my comeback to the nationwide workforce full time.’’

Rivard, 30, says her sport expertise helped her immensely within the classroom.

‘’What I realized in sport served me so nicely in school,’’ she mentioned. ‘’and I feel it’ll proceed to take action sooner or later.  I feel it’s necessary to have ambitions and desires exterior of sport. It’s solely wholesome and helps my relationship with the game.’’

More than 680 athletes are competing on the five-day occasion, which is used to pick out a number of Canadian squads together with the one for the Para Pan Pacific Championships (Aug. 28-30 in Walnut, Calif.).

CBC Gem, CBC Sports  and ICI TOU.TV stream every session starting at 9:30 a.m. ET for heats and 5:30 p.m. ET for finals.

With information from Swimming Canada and CBC