2026 Canadian Swimming Trials: Day 1 Finals Reside Recap

2026 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials

It is the primary remaining session of the 2026 Canadian Swimming Trials, the place among the first choices for the Pan Pacific Championship workforce for Canada might be made.

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 submit a roster replace after the conclusion of every finals session.

Tonight will characteristic the finals of the 200 freestyle, 100 again, 200 fly, and the quickest warmth of the lads’s 800 freestyle.

Ella Jansen narrowly claimed the highest seed within the ladies’s 200 free this morning over Summer Cardwell, touching in 1:57.89 to Cardwell’s 1:58.17, each of which had been beneath the World Aquatics ‘A’ normal time.

Lorne Wigginton led a trio of sub-1:49 performers within the 200 free this morning in 1:47.33. Just behind him are podium threats Tristan Jankovics (1:48.52) and Laon Kim (1:48.75).

Canadian Record holder Kylie Masse cruised to the highest time within the ladies’s 100 again in 59.30; she was the lone sub-1:00 performer within the prelims.

Another nationwide file holder topped the lads’s 100 again as Blake Tierney completed seven tenths forward of the sphere to safe the center lane in 53.94.

Unsurprisingly, the largest title at this meet, and arguably one of many largest on the earth, Summer McIntosh topped the prelims of the ladies’s 200 butterfly, swimming a simple top-seeded time of two:08.25, greater than 4 seconds faster than anyone else within the discipline.

Anton Semenyuk turned within the high time within the prelims on the lads’s facet of the 200 fly, touching because the lone swimmer beneath 2:00 in 1:58.92.

Women’s 200m Freestyle – Finals

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

Gold – Ella Jansen – 1:57.58

Silver – Summer Cardwell – 1:58.01

Bronze – Sienna Angove – 1:58.11

Sienna Angove bought out quick in 27.51, although it was Jansen tou took over the lead on the 100 in 57.28. The remainder of the sphere wouldn’t again down, as 5 swimmers turned inside 4 tenths of a second from Jansen.

Jansen was in a position to present some excessive degree raving expertise, as, just like this morning, it was Jansen who managed to carry on and switch in the one sub 1:58 time within the 1:57.58.

Summer Cardwell additionally continued her sturdy day, almost cracking that 1:58 barrier in 1:58.01 to complete runner up and beneath the World Aquatics ‘A’ normal. Rounding out the highest three was Angove, touching only a tenth behind Cardwell in 1:58.11.

8 of the ten finalist touched beneath 2:00.

Men’s 200m Freestyle – Finals

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

Gold – Lorne Wigginton – 1:47.33

Silver – Laon Kim/Ethan Ekk -(tie) 1:47.56

Bronze – n/a

The opening levels of the race had been dominated by the surface lanes, as Ruslan Gaziev fired off a fast 22.56 out of lane 9 to take an early sprinters benefit to open up. At the 100, Gaziev was nonetheless firmly within the lead, although Finlay Knox out of lane 1 additionally made a critical transfer as much as 2nd, simply half a second slower than Gaziev (52.02) in 52.65.

That wouldn’t be how the race would end, as high seed Lorne Wigginton, who swam a finest time of 1:47.33 within the prelims, used a significant again half to get himself firmly in competition on the ultimate 100 meters, in the end flying previous the sphere to take the win in 1:47.37.

The remainder of the posium had no distinction, as Laon Kim and Ethan Ekk each tied for the 2nd quickest time within the occasion remaining in 1:47.56, leaving Knox simply off the rostrum in 1:48.40.

Women’s 100m Backstroke – Finals

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

Gold – Taylor Ruck – 58.37

Silver – Kylie Masse – 58.87

Bronze – Ingrid Wilm – 59.21

Masse got here in because the particular favourite to notch her third consecutive Canadian Trials crown on this occasion, although it will not play out so favorably. From the beginning, it was Taylor Ruck in lane 3, only one lane above Masse who managed to go stroke for stroke with Masee, in the end turning first on the 50 in 28.16, simply forward of Masse in 28.32.

From there it was all Ruck, rising her result in a half second by the ultimate contact, securing the win in 58.37, a full half second quicker than Masse in 2nd in 58.87.

Ingrid Wilm, who was firmly in competition from the beginning, turning third on the 50 in 28.79, managed to keep up her podium place and maintain off a charging Madison Kryger (59.59) for third in 59.21.

Men’s 100m Backstroke – Finals

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

Gold – Blake Tierney – 53.63

Silver – Raben Dommann – 53.79

Bronze – Parker Deshayes – 54.73

As it was within the prelims, Tierney, the Canadian file holder, confirmed his energy and talent by taking the win within the males’s 100 backstroke right here in 53.63, although it was not merely given, however onerous fought.

At the flip, Tierney was the lone man inder 26.5 opening in a blistering 25.90, effectively over half a second forward of the sphere, although it was the ultimate 25 meters from Raben Dommann, who was 2nd on the 50 in 26.56 who almost pulled off the upset, touching lower than 1 / 4 of a second behind Tierney in 53.63.

Parker Deshayes, who was effectively exterior of the highest two, nonetheless managed to carry off Ethan Ekk, who was swimming his second remaining of the night, touching seven hundredths quicker in 54.73, whereas Ekk simply misses the rostrum in 54.80.

Women’s 200m Butterfly – Finals

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

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Men’s 200m Butterfly – Finals

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

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Men’s 800m Freestyle – Fastest Heat

• World Record: 7:32.12 – Zhang Lin, China (2009)
• Canadian Record: 7:41.86 – Ryan Cochrane (2011)
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Standard: 7:48.66

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Para Swimming Results

• Jordan Tucker secured 685 factors within the ladies’s S4 50 backstroke together with her successful time of 1:03.76, greater than three seconds faster than her prelims time of 1:06.84.
• Etienne Boutin-Cote, the lone man within the males’s S4 50 backstroke improved on his seed time of 1:02.05 within the finals, touching in 1:01.72, incomes 478 factors.
• Jaime Cosgriffe notched the lone sub 1:10 day out of the S10 ladies’s 100 backstroke performers, securing a large 999 factors by the use of her 1:08.95 efficiency.
• From begin to end within the males;s multiclass 100 backstroke, it was Nicolas-Guy Turbide resetting his Canadian S12 file in 1:02.42, touching greater than half a second quicker than his 1:03.02 seed time.