McIntosh, Ruck, Routliffe lead Canadian swim workforce headed to Pan and Para Pan Pacific Championships

Swimming Canada has revealed the athletes who will signify the nation at subsequent month’s 2026 Pan Pacific and Para Pan Pacific Championships following the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal.

The Pan Pacific roster options 44 swimmers — 22 ladies and 22 males, whereas 20 Para athletes have been chosen to the Para Pan Pacific workforce.

Olympians Summer McIntosh and Taylor Ruck headline the workforce after standout performances at trials.

McIntosh continued her exceptional season by setting a world report within the ladies’s 200-metre butterfly, swimming to a time of two minutes and 1.65 seconds, erasing the oldest ladies’s long-course world report.

Ruck additionally put collectively among the best meets of her profession. She gained 5 nationwide titles, together with victories within the 100-metre backstroke, 100-metre freestyle and 100-metre butterfly, changing into simply the second Canadian to win three completely different strokes at a single nationwide trials.

“This team has a really nice mix of experienced athletes and swimmers who have earned their first opportunity to race on a stage like this,” Swimming Canada high-performance director John Atkinson mentioned in a launch. “Pan Pacs will be an important test as we continue building toward the Los Angeles Olympics.”

Lorne Wigginton can be a part of the workforce after rewriting the Canadian report books in Montreal. The 26-year-old broke the nation’s longest-standing males’s swimming report within the 400m particular person medley.

“Every summer I have the goal to represent Canada again,” Wigginton mentioned. “It’s a great feeling to be named to the team. Every time feels the same as the first.”

The Paralympic squad is led by veterans Tess Routliffe and Nicholas Bennett, whereas Aurélie Rivard returns to worldwide competitors after stepping away final season to finish regulation faculty.

Rivard gained three occasions at trials to earn her place on the workforce.

Other medal-winning Para athletes on the workforce embody: Nicolas-Guy Turbide of Quebec City, Fernando Lu of Burnaby, B.C., and Sebastian Massabie, of Surrey, B.C., all of whom set Canadian information of their respective occasions.

“I’m looking forward to cheering them on and seeing what we can all do,” Routliffe mentioned. “The new generation are very positive and really strong.”

The Pan Pacific Championships start Aug. 10 with open-water competitors earlier than pool racing runs Aug. 12-15 in Irvine, Calif. The Para Pan Pacific Championships comply with from Aug. 28-30 in Walnut, Calif.