Ruck’s golden run continues as Jansen provides third title at 2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials

(Swimming Canada/Scott Grant)

July 8, 2026

Taylor Ruck and Ella Jansen continued to set the tempo on the penultimate night time of the 2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Montréal, with each swimmers including one other gold medal to their standout Trial campaigns.

Ruck captured the ladies’s 50m freestyle title to gather her fourth victory of the week, whereas Jansen claimed the ladies’s 200m particular person medley crown for a 3rd gold and fourth medal total.

Ruck, a four-time Olympic medallist, was in management from the beginning, touching in 24.68 to complete practically six-tenths of a second forward of the sector. The win continued a formidable Trials for the 26-year-old, who has been one of many meet’s most dominant performers by way of the primary 4 nights of racing.

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Leilani Fack secured the silver medal in 25.26, holding off Sarah Fournier by simply 0.02 seconds. Kylie Masse and Kayla Sanchez had been scratched from the ultimate.

Yuri Kisil sprinted to victory within the males’s 50m freestyle, touching the wall in 22.31. Kisil held off the sector by 0.27 seconds, ending forward of Chris Weeks, who claimed silver in 22.58. Luke Stewart-Beinder rounded out the rostrum in 22.74

Ella Jansen continued her dominant run, capturing her third gold medal after including the ladies’s 200m particular person medley title to victories within the 200m and 400m freestyle.

Jansen touched the wall in 2:12.28, reducing her private greatest by three tenths of a second from the two:12.57 she set in April. The Paris 2024 Olympian led from the begin to win by greater than two seconds. Summer McIntosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey had been absent from the race as a consequence of sickness.

Summer Cardwell claimed silver in 2:14.58, whereas Brooklyn Douthwright rounded out the rostrum in 2:15.56.

Finlay Knox captured his second gold medal in as many days, profitable the boys’s 200m particular person medley in 1:57.80, with one other sturdy efficiency in his signature occasion. Knox took management of the race throughout the backstroke leg and held off a late problem from Lorne Wigginton to safe the victory.

Wigginton completed second in a personal-best 1:59.01, a time that was simply sufficient to satisfy the AQUA ‘A’ qualifying commonplace for the Pan Pacific Championships in August. Tristan Jankovics rounded out the rostrum in 2:00.37.

Sophie Angus was back on the podium to claim silver in 2:27.03, while Shima Taghavi finished third in 2:29.55.