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Welcome to the third finals session of the 2026 Canadian Swimming Trials.
This morning’s prelims session was comparatively quiet with most athletes cruising to their prime seeds. The prime swim of the morning got here from Sophie Angus who dropped greater than half-a-second within the 50 breaststroke prelims to swim 30.28, changing into the 2nd quickest Canadian in historical past within the occasion and scaring the 2009 Canadian Record of 30.23.
The largest information after the prelims session was Summer McIntosh scratching the remainder of the meet on account of sickness. That means she is not going to race the ladies’s 400 free remaining tonight, bumping Juliet Nicholson into the occasion. Ella Cosgrove would be the new prime seed, simply forward of Ella Jansen in 2nd. There was one other ‘A’ remaining scratch in fifth qualifier Madison Kryger.
Ethan Ekk earned the highest seed within the males’s 400 free remaining, simply forward of Simon Fonseca and Lorne Wigginton, who’s contemporary off a Canadian report within the males’s 400 IM. Francis Brennan, who certified 2nd total, scratched the occasion remaining.
The ladies’s 100 fly will see Taylor Ruck as the highest seed by virtually a second over Leilani Flack, virtually a brand new private finest time for Ruck, and below the AQUA ‘A’ normal.
Finlay Knox will lead the boys’s 100 fly remaining by two tenths over Raben Dommann as the one two swimmers below 53 seconds within the occasion.
The meet will wrap up with the 50 breaststroke finals. Angus is the highest seed on the ladies’s facet forward of SCM Canadian report holder Alexanne Lepage, and Oliver Dawson set the highest time on the boys’s facet by three tenths over Javier Acevedo.
Top 3 Finishers
The ladies’s 400 freestyle went to Ella Jansen in 4:08.05, two seconds below the World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard within the occasion.
She added a couple of second from her lifetime better of 4:07.18, which she set in March of 2023, and got here in additional than three seconds forward of Ella Cosgrove, who swam 4:11.66 for 2nd total. She cut up 2:02.43/2:05.62.
Cosgrove, who was the highest seed coming in, has a lifetime better of 4:10.89 from final August on the World Junior Championships. She was 2:04.60/2:07.06.
Julie Brousseau completed third in 4:11.74, a 3 second add from the 4:08.12 she set in could of 2024. She was out sooner than Cosgrove, splitting 2:03.24 on the opening 200 earlier than coming residence in 2:08.50 to fall behind Cosgrove on the again half.
Top 3 Finishers
The males’s 400 freestyle remaining went to Ethan Ekk in 3:47.22. He was the one swimmer below 3:50 within the occasion and the one one below the AQUA ‘A’ normal of three:47.22.
Ekk swam six seconds sooner than his prelims time of three:53.16, which earned him the highest seed. He cut up 1:52.51/1:54.71 within the remaining to steer the race from wire-to-wire. He missed his lifetime finest of three:46.01 by a couple of second.
Jordi Vilchez took 2nd in 3:50.12, splitting 1:52.97/1:57.15 so as to add half-a-second from the three:49.63 he set eventually 12 months’s Canadian Trials to complete 2nd to Ekk .
Lorne Wigginton earned the bronze along with his remaining time of three:53.00. His lifetime finest is 3:49.05, which can also be the Canadian Junior report, from September of 2023.
Top 3 Finishers
After swimming a close to private finest time in prelims, Taylor Ruck gained the ladies’s 100 fly remaining in 58.15, just a bit off her prelims time of 57.98, however sufficient to lockup her win.
Ruck was simply shy of her 57.71 lifetime finest from April, splitting 26.39/31.76, and got here in about half-a-second forward of 2nd place finisher Leilani Fack‘s 58.60.
Fack, set one other new private finest time of 58.60, after breaking 59 seconds for the primary time in prelims to clock a 58.97. She fell simply in need of the AQUA ‘A’ normal of 58.33, nonetheless.
Matea Gigovic completed third in 59.01, taking three tenths off her earlier finest time of 59.34, which she swam to win the junior remaining eventually 12 months’s 2025 Canadian Trials. She was the ultimate swimmer below 1:00 within the occasion.
Top 3 Finishers
With the absence of Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun altering his worldwide designation, not one of the males within the ‘A’ remaining got here in below the AQUA ‘A’ time within the occasion with Finlay Knox setting the highest time of 51.82, 5 hundredths off the 51.77 normal.
Knox swam below the time in prelims, and is already a member of the Pan Pacs workforce, so there was much less strain on his efficiency tonight, however he nonetheless would mechanically certified by advantage of profitable the occasion.
He swam 24.15/27.67 so as to add about 4 tenths from his 51.42 lifetime finest, which he set in May of 2024. He didn’t swim the occasion eventually 12 months’s Canadian Trials, and has simply returned to persistently racing it this season.
Raben Dommann completed 2nd in 52.57, a half-second drop from the 53.14 mark he set in April on the Canadian Open. He dropped below 53 seconds for the primary time in prelims swimming 52.99 earlier than reducing one other 4 tenths off that point tonight.
This has been an unbelievable meet for him after he suffered a stroke in early 2025.
Kent Goni Avila completed third in 52.87, one other enormous private finest after he swam 53.34 within the prelims to drop from the 53.46 he swam eventually 12 months’s Canadian Trials.
Top 3 Finishers
Sophie Angus adopted up her huge prelims swim within the ladies’s 50 breaststroke with a win in tonight’s remaining, incomes her means onto the Pan Pacs roster together with her swim of 30.40.
This time was just a little greater than a tenth off the 30.28 she swam in prelims to turn into the 2nd quickest Canadian in historical past, however was nonetheless greater than six tenths sooner than Alexanne Lepage‘s 31.03 in 2nd place.
Lepage, the SCM Canadian report holder int eh 50 backstroke, additionally added from prelims, swimming 31.03 to come back in a couple of tenth off her morning swim of 30.94 and two tenths off her better of 30.82.
Shona Branton completed third in 31.17, faster than her prelims swim of 31.25, however a slight add from her better of 30.75.
Top 3 Finishers
The males’s 50 breaststroke went to Canadian report holder Oliver Dawson, once more with no athletes coming in below the AQUA ‘A’ normal within the occasion.
Dawson swam 27.65 so as to add 4 tenths from his report time of 27.29, which he set in May on the AP Race in London.
Javier Acevedo took 2nd, simply two hundredths again of Dawson, stopping the clock in 27.68, one other new lifetime finest after he swam 27.74 within the prelims to drop from the 28.55 he swam in March.
Brayden Taivassalo swam 27.84 to complete third, dropping two hundredths from the 27.86 he swam on the Sun Devil Open in May.
Para Highlights
The ladies’s 400 freestyle went to S10 swimmer Aurelie Rivard in 4:42.75, which scored 968 factors, 50 greater than fellow S10 athlete Mary Jibb‘s 4:50.96.
Reid Maxwell (S8) gained the boys’s 400 freestyle with 998 factors, swimming 4:29.03 to come back in additional than 100 factors forward of the remainder of the sphere. He was about 5 seconds off his better of 4:32.90 from the Paris Paralympics in 2024.
S14 class freestyler Emma Van Dyk swam 2:28.41 within the 200 freestyle to attain 804 factors, 50 greater than fellow S14 athlete Miori Henault‘s 752 together with her 2:33.55
Finally, Nicholas Bennett swam 1:54.78 within the males’s 200 freestyle to attain 995 factors within the S14 class. He added a couple of second from his Canadian report of 1:53.61, additionally from the Paris Olympics.
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