Canadian Olympic Trials Day 1 Prelims

The day has finally arrived every Canadian swimmer has been waiting for, the 2016 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials. This event has been on the minds of the best Canadian swimmers since the 2012 Olympic Games completed. With the first session in the books, the swimming did not disappoint and finals shaping up to be an exciting one. The prelims was so fast records were broken in a few events this morning.

Ontario Records
Richard Funk - TSC - 100 Breast - 1:00.66 - OPEN
Warren Mayer - PICK - 100 Breast - 1:02.63 - 15-17
Penny Olekseiak - TSC - 100 Fly - 57.38 - 15-17/OPEN

Also in the 100 Fly Penny broke the 15-17 Canadian Age Group Record and is in shooting distance of the Canadian Senior record of 57:27! This 15-year-old from Toronto has been on fire all season long and join the high performance center has done absolute wonders for Olekseiak.

Below in the chart is the top 10 Canadian finishers from prelims, along with my predictions for wins tonight.

Event	Swimmers in top 10 tonight	FINA A Cut Time
400 IM	1.     Tristan Cote, 4:20.15 2.     Rob Hill, 4:21.48 3.     Luke Reilly, 4:23.18 4.     Jeremy Tremblay, 4:24.61 5.     Jonathan Brown, 4:25.46 6.     Montana Champagne, 4:25.57 7.     Colin Eriks, 4:25.73 8.     Josh Zakala, 4:25.74 9.     Philip Kay, 4:25.97 10.  Hau-Li Fan, 4:28.67	4:16.71
400 Free	1.     Brittany Maclean, 4:07.82 2.     Kennedy Goss, 4:12.70 3.     Danica Ludlow, 4:13.95 4.     Olivia Anderson, 4:14.56 5.     Tabitha Baumann, 4:15.30 6.     Sophia Saroukian, 4:15.89 7.     Taylor Ruck, 4:16.78 8.     Alyson Ackman, 4:17.28 9.     Mackenzie Padington, 4:18.99 10.  Mabel Zavaros, 4:19.73	4:09.08
100 Breast	1.     Richard Funk, 1:00.66 2.     Jason Block, 1:00.87 3.     Ashton Baumann, 1:01.08 4.     Konrad Bald, 1:01.72 5.     James Dergousoff, 1:01.82 6.     Nick Kostiuk, 1:02.39 7.     Eli Wall, 1:02.57 8.     Warren Mayer, 1:02.63 9.     James Guest, 1:02.81 10.  Sergey Holson, 1:02.94	1:00.57
100 Fly	1.     Penny Oleksiak, 57.38 2.     Noemie Thomas, 57.60 3.     Katerine Savard, 57.72 4.     Audrey Lacroix, 59.34 5.     Rebecca Smith, 59.74 6.     Maggie MacNeil, 1:00.13 7.     Mabel Zavaros, 1:00.31 8.     Samantha Corea, 1:00.47 9.     Georgia Kidd, 1:00.76 10.  Jacomie Strydom, 1:01.06	58:74
200 Free	1.     Jeremy Bagshaw, 1:48.47 2.     Yuri Kisil, 1:49.45 3.     Markus Thormeyer, 1:50.13 4.     Peter Brothers, 1:50.18 5.     Stefan Milosevic, 1:50.20 6.     Chad Bobrosky, 1:50.29 7.     Anthony Lyons, 1:50.41 8.     Ryan Cochrane, 1:50.43 9.     Colin Gilbert, 1:50.61 10.  Samuel Belanger, 1:50.61	1:47.97

Without question it will be an exciting night 1 of finals. My predictions for Gold look to be how the morning shaped up. In terms of Silver and Bronze… Well those spots will be a tough fight by many swimmers. So make sure to tune into CBC sports online as they will be running a LIVE stream. I have been watching raw footage of the time trials that have been going on at pool. It looks like CBC is doing tests making sure camera angles and sound quality are perfect. So make sure to tune in at 6:45 pm for the pre show and finals get underway at 7 pm.