Taylor Ruck wins third gold medal of 2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials

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The Taylor Ruck resurgence continues, with the swimmer now three for 3 on the 2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal.

On Tuesday night, the 26-year-old claimed her third gold medal of the meet, including a victory within the girls’s 100m butterfly to these she already had within the 100m backstroke and 100m freestyle. As the quickest qualifier from the heats, Ruck was in the midst of the pool in lane 4. Coming off the flip, she had a wholesome lead, and although she laboured slightly within the closing 25 metres, she completed in 58.15. That nonetheless put her below the AQUA ‘A’ normal for the Pan Pacific Championships and 0.45 forward of runner-up Leilani Fack. Matea Gigovic was third in 59.01.

Ruck first gained worldwide acclaim a decade in the past when she helped Canada win bronze medals within the girls’s 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays at Rio 2016. Alongside teammate Penny Oleksiak, they turned the primary ever Olympic medallists born within the 2000s. Two years later, Ruck tied the report for many medals ever gained on the Commonwealth Games, coming dwelling with eight. But after some harder years, a transfer to affix the High Performance Centre Vancouver within the fall of 2025 appears to have paid off. In April, she dropped her private finest within the 100m butterfly to 57.71.

Finlay Knox took the gold medal within the males’s 100m butterfly, clocking 51.82 to position forward of Raben Dommann (52.57) and Kent Goni Avila (52.87). Knox will race in his major occasion, the 200m particular person medley, on Wednesday.

Following the morning session, Swimming Canada introduced that Summer McIntosh has withdrawn from the rest of the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials because of sickness. She had competed within the preliminary heats for the ladies’s 400m freestyle, however after session together with her coach Bob Bowman and Swimming Canada’s medical workers, the choice was made to prioritize McIntosh’s well being and restoration for the season forward.

In a press release, McIntosh stated “I’m so sorry” and went on to elucidate that she began feeling ailing on Monday morning. Later that day, she gained the ladies’s 400m particular person medley, however her time was virtually 4 seconds slower than the world report she set in 2025.

“There is so much magic in this pool, and I’m incredibly grateful I got to experience it. I’m so disappointed that I can’t continue racing in front of these amazing crowds, but my focus now is on getting healthy so I can be ready to represent Canada at the Pan Pacific Championships,” stated McIntosh.

The 19-year-old was the speak of the swimming world when on the opening night time of the Trials on Sunday she broke the oldest girls’s world report. Her time of two:01.65 within the 200m butterfly worn out the mark of two:01.81 by China’s Liu Zige that had stood since 2009.

With the world report holder absent from the ladies’s 400m freestyle closing, the chance was there for Ella Jansen to take the victory in 4:08.05. Despite not swimming all out as she prepares to compete on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in a few weeks, Jansen was nonetheless below the AQUA ‘A’ normal for the Pan Pacific Championships in August. Ella Cosgrove got here via for the silver medal in 4:11.66, simply 0.08 forward of Julie Brousseau.

The closing of the boys’s 400m freestyle acquired off to comparatively leisurely begin earlier than Ethan Ekk picked up the tempo previous the halfway mark. He completed in 3:47.22 for the win and a spot on the Pan Pacs group. Jordi Vilchez completed second in 3:50.12, with Lorne Wigginton third in 3:53.00. In his debut on the World Aquatics Championships final yr, the then-18-year-old Ekk missed a spot within the eight-man 400m freestyle closing by only one place.

The night time completed with the 50m breaststroke occasions, which is able to make their Olympic debut two years from now at Los Angeles 2028. Sophie Angus grabbed the ladies’s gold medal in 30.40, below the choice normal for the Pan Pacs. Alexanne Lepage was second in 31.03 with Shona Branton third in 31.17.

Oliver Dawson, the 18-year-old who set the Canadian report within the males’s 50m breaststroke at 27.29 on May 23, was challenged by veteran Javier Acevedo within the closing. Dawson clocked 27.65 to out-touch the swimmer 10 years his elder by simply 0.03. Brayden Taivalasso was third in 27.84.

You can catch all of the motion because the Trials proceed via Thursday. CBC Gem and  stream every session starting at 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT for heats and 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT for finals. Every session can even be stay on YouTube: