Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Day 1 Finals Trials Recap

Day 1 Finals of the 2016 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials certainly did not disappoint in terms of speed and record breaking swims.

Penny Oleksiak had one of the jaw dropping swims of the evening with a new Canadian Record in the 100 fly swimming a 56:99 being the first Canadian women under the 57 mark. She also out touched Noemie Thomas by 0.03 seconds in the heat. Both women were fast enough to make the Olympic Team in this event. Oleksiak now sits with the 3rd fastest time in the world this year at just 15 years old!

Also making waves on night 1 was Brittany Maclean, one of my Canadian freestyle idols and she did not disappoint in the finals. After battling back from injuries in 2015 Maclean showed her fire recently at the NCAA champs and has continued that at the trials. In the 400 free Maclean swam a new personal best, resulting in a new Canadian Record time of 4:03.84 as well sitting with the 2nd fastest time in the world this year.

On the men’s side of the results it was all about disappointment with no one swimming under the tough FINA A cut times set out. Many swimmers were coming within tenths of the time but no one was fast enough. Many of these guys have other races and opportunities to try and qualify for the games throughout the week as well Swimming Canada has different levels of priority for the games.

If Day 1 was this successful, I can only imagine what Day 2 will bring. Reminder, finals will be streamed LIVE online thanks to CBC and you can re watch all of night 1 coverage online now.


Event
Top 3 finishers
FINA A Cut Time
400 IM
1.     Luke Reilly, 4:17.14
2.     Tristan Cote, 4:21.18
3.     Robert Hill, 4:21.25
4:16.71
400 Free
1.     Brittany Maclean, 4:03.84 NR OQ
2.     Taylor Ruck, 4:09.93
3.     Kennedy Goss, 4:10.30
4:09.08
100 Breast
1.     Jason Block, 1:00.59
2.     Richard Funk, 1:00.92
3.     James Dergousoff / Ashton Baumann, 1:01.56
1:00.57
100 Fly
1.     Penny Oleksiak, 56.99 NR OQ
2.     Noemie Thomas, 57.02 OQ
3.     Katerine Savard, 57.75
58:74
200 Free
1.     Markus Thormeyer, 1:48.17
2.     Jeremy Bagshaw, 1:48.20
3.     Yuri Kisil, 1:48.90
1:47.97
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  1. freedom reigns6 April 2016 at 11:51

    I am hoping that on day 2 the men's times changes - it would be a disaster if in the men's finals very few guys made it. I know how they feel though, being in the same boat when I was competing. I missed Korea and Spain by 10ths of seconds. It does frustrate and it does hurt a lot.

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