2026 Canadian Swimming Trials: Day 1 Prelims Stay Recap

2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials

The first preliminary session of the 2026 Canadian Swimming Trials is about to get underway in Montreal, because the five-day occasion will assist decide who will signify Canada this summer season on the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, CA.

As a reminder, the Canadian Commonwealth Games workforce was pre-selected again in October, so this meet solely pertains to Pan Pacs qualifying. The choice standards for Pan Pacs is linked above, however SwimSwam will publish a roster replace after the conclusion of every finals session.

Preliminary heats of the 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, and 200 butterfly are on faucet for each the women and men, together with the para 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke, and 100 butterfly. Stay tuned for dwell updates.

Women’s 200m Freestyle – Prelims

• World Record: 1:52.23 – Ariarne Titmus, Australia (2024)
• Canadian Record: 1:53.65 – Summer McIntosh, (2023)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 1:58.23

Top 10:

Men’s 200m Freestyle – Prelims

• World Record: 1:42.00 – Paul Biedermann, Germany (2009)
• Canadian Record: 1:46.39 – Antoine Sauve (2025)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 1:46.70

Top 10:

Results unavailable

Women’s 100m Backstroke – Prelims

• World Record: 57.13 — Regan Smith, United States (2024)
• Canadian Record: 57.70 – Kylie Masse (2021)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 1:00.46

Top 10:

1. Kylie Masse (TSC) – 59.30
2. Madison Kryger (BROCK/HPCON) – 1:00.07
3. Taylor Ruck (HPCVN) – 1:00.32
4. Ingrid Wilm (CASC/HPCVN) – 1:01.11
5. Delia Lloyd (ESWIM) – 1:01.76
6. Reina Liu (UNCAN) – 1:01.80
7. Lexi Stephens (TNAQ) – 1:01.82
8. Sienna Rodgers (UCSC) – 1:02.60
9. Olive Rogers (ESWIM) – 1:02.83
10. Halayna Montrichard (BAC) – 1:02.84

All eyes will likely be on Canadian Record holder and two-time defending Trials champion Kylie Masse within the ladies’s 100m again last, however 2023 National Champion Ingrid Wilm and the on-fire Taylor Ruck will look to make it a good race.

Masse recorded the only efficiency beneath the one-minute barrier this morning, swimming 59.30 to steer Madison Kryger (1:00.07) by just below a second. Taylor Ruck hit the wall in a time of 1:00.32 for the third seed, with Ingrid Wilm notching 1:01.11 for fourth-seed standing.

Masse’s time this morning undercut her season-best 59.50 from the Mel Zejac International meet earlier in the summertime, whereas Kryger dipped beneath her former finest time of 1:00.27, which she clocked en path to bronze on the 2025 World Junior Championships.

Ruck owns a season better of 58.71 on this occasion from the Barcelona leg of the Mare Nostrum tour, a time that ranks her #9 on this planet to this point this season and represents her second-fastest time of her profession, solely behind the 58.55 finest time she produced for runner-up on the 2019 Canadian Trials.

Wilm has been 59.22 through the Mare Nostrum circuit to this point this season; her finest stays the 58.80 she threw right down to win the 2023 iteration of this competitors.

Men’s 100m Backstroke – Prelims

• World Record: 51.60 — Thomas Ceccon, Italy (2022)
• Canadian Record: 52.95 – Blake Tierney (2025)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 53.94

Top 10:

Women’s 200m Butterfly – Prelims

• World Record: 2:01.81 – Liu Zige, China (2009)
• Canadian Record: 2:01.99 – Summer McIntosh (2025)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 2:09.21

Top 10:

Men’s 200m Butterfly – Prelims

• World Record: 1:50.34 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2022)
• Canadian Record: 1:52.80 – Ilya Kharun (2024)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 1:56.51

Top 10:

Para Swimming – Prelims

• In addition to the beforehand talked about athletes, para swimmers have been additionally out in full pressure this morning within the multi-class occasions.
  • Para swimming is open to athletes with bodily disabilities corresponding to dwarfism, amputation/limb loss, blindness/visible impairment, spinal wire damage/wheelchair-users, cerebral palsy/mind damage/stroke, cognitive impairment, and Les autres.
  • Para athletes are labeled into classes based mostly on the character and severity of their impairments: bodily (S1-S10), visible (S11-S13), and mental (S14). This classification system ensures a stage taking part in discipline by grouping athletes with related impairments, permitting for honest competitors. To study extra about Para Swimming, together with how the factors system determines winners moderately than time, click here.

Results:

• In the ladies’s S2-S5 50m backstroke, there have been simply two opponents: Aly Van Wyck-Smart (S3), who swam 1:08.54 for 738 factors, and Jordan Tucker (S4), who posted 1:06.84 for 615 factors.
• Etienne Boutin-Cote (S4) was the only swimmer to take to the pool within the males’s S1-S5 50m backstroke. He hit the wall in a time of 1:03.61, scoring 440 factors within the course of.
• The ladies’s S2, S6, S8-S14 100m backstroke noticed Jaime Cosgriffe (S10) take the highest spot with 1003 factors, clocking a time of 1:08.69. Mary C. Jibb (S10) earned 944 factors with a 1:12.07, adopted by Veronica MacLellan (S10) with 860 factors in 1:16.62. Emma Van Dyk (S14) scored 838 factors off a 1:15.86, forward of Sophie Wood (S10), who posted 796 factors in 1:19.97. Ruby Stevens (S6) and Brea C. Duncan (S6) rounded out the sphere with 742 and 569 factors, swimming 1:38.23 and 1:50.37, respectively. Danielle Dorris (S7) swam exhibition, scoring 933 factors with a time of 1:25.92
• The males’s S1, S2, S6-S14 100m backstroke consisted of three swimmers: Leo Zheng (S6), Ramon Siytangco (S14), and Gabriel Martel (S11). Siytangco posted the quickest time of 1:13.54, forward of Zheng’s 1:28.34 and Martel’s 1:30.57, but it surely was Zheng who scored essentially the most factors with 806, adopted by Siytangco’s 663 and Martel’s 590.