Day 3 Trials Prelims and Finals Recap

Day 3 trials prelims is in the books and once again another strong morning of swims, setting up for an excellent final ahead. Today, Canada will learn the 4 members of the women’s 4 x 200 free relay as the individual 200 free is being swum this evening. Another exciting swimmer will be Canada’s best, and my second freestyle idol Ryan Cochrane as he competes in the 400 free. Fingers crossed we name more men to the Olympic Team tonight in the 400 free and 200 breast after a slow start to the nominations this week.

The low numbers of men making the extremely difficult FINA A standard are raising the question “Are these FINA A standards to difficult to make at this time of the year?” It is without question these are difficult standards and I do believe the standards are on the difficult side. The men are not swimming slow at all. In fact, they are swimming better then ever with many youngsters stepping up and setting Canadian Age Group Records. The seniors are struggling though and likely a refocus or struggle of the standards needs to be made going forward. It is, however, excellent having younger swimmers qualifying for the Olympics, but a good team needs depth and experience of swimmers young and old.

Here is a peak at the top 10 results from the morning, winner predictions for finals, and FINA A cuts for all the events. Note for the women’s 200 free I will have 4 swimmers highlighted as this event will send 4 swimmers.

Event	Top 10 Seeds for Finals	FINA A Cut Time
200 Free	1.     Taylor Ruck, 1:58.27 2.     Brittany Maclean, 1:58.48 3.     Jacqueline Keire, 1:59.24 4.     Penny Oleksiak, 1:59.63 5.     Kennedy Goss, 1:59.70 6.     Katerine Savard, 2:00.36 7.     Alyson Ackman, 2:00.43 8.     Rebecca Smith, 2:00.55 9.     Samantha Cheverton, 2:01.12 10.  Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, 2:01.16	1:58.96
400 Free	1.     Ryan Cochrane, 3:50.61 2.     Jeremy Bagshaw, 3:50.96 3.     Peter Brothers, 3:53.54 4.     Colin Gilbert, 3:54.52 5.     Tristan Cote, 3:56.44 6.     Eric Hedlin, 3:56.47 7.     Mackenzie Hamill, 3:56.90 8.     Jon McKay, 3:57.22 9.     Keegan Zanatta, 3:57.93 10.  Carson Olafson, 3:58.61	3:50.40
200 Breast	1.     James Dergousoff, 2:13.26 2.     Jason Block, 2:13.54 3.     Richard Funk, 2:13.83 4.     Ashton Baumann, 2:14.71 5.     Ryan Telford, 2:15.59 6.     James Guest, 2:16.03 7.     Eli Wall, 2:16.32 8.     Dillon Perron, 2:16.68 9.     Nick Kostiuk, 2:16.81 10.  Connor Islings, 2:18.95	2:11.66
100 Breast	1.     Rachel Nicol, 1:06.88 2.     Kierra Smith, 1:07.44 3.     Tera Van Beilen, 1:08.38 4.     Kelsey Wog, 1:09.24 5.     Ashley McGregor, 1:09.78 6.     Erin Stamp, 1:09.81 7.     Tianna Rissling, 1:10.05 8.     Martha McCabe, 1:10.45 9.     Bronwyn Pasloski, 1:10.66 10.  Marie-Solei Jean-Lachapelle, 1:10.82	1:07.85

Finals will not disappoint! Tune into CBC sports online for LIVE coverage beginning at 6:45 pm

FINALS

Day 3 of the 2016 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials are well underway, and tonight more records were broken, more medals were won, and more swimmers were nominated to the Olympic Team.

The evening started off with a nail biting 200 free with the top 4 girls have a close race. In the end it was Brittany Maclean picking up her second Gold medal and Canadian Record of the trials. On the men’s side, 2 more names were added to the nomination list, with Ryan Cochrane tearing things up in the 400 free and a surprise twist in the 200 breast with Ashton Baumann picking up the win. This was a surprise as he was seeded 4^th going into the finals. A bit of an upset for sure with Richard Funk not qualifying for the games. Funk was clearly disappointed as he stepped onto the podium tonight as he also did not make the difficult standard in the 100 breast earlier in the competition.

Event	Top 3 Finishers in Finals	FINA A Cut
200 Free	1.     Brittany Maclean, 1:56.94 OQ NR 2.     Penny Oleksiak, 1:57.59 OQ 3.     Katerine Savard, 1:58.17 * Relay Qualifier 4.     Kennedy Goss, 1:58.26 * Relay Qualifier	1:58.96
400 Free	1.     Ryan Cochrane, 3:48.54 OQ 2.     Peter Brothers, 3:51.26 3.     Jeremy Bagshaw, 3:51.29	3:50.40
200 Breast	1.     Ashton Baumann, 2:10.69 OQ 2.     Jason Block, 2:13.21 3.     Richard Funk, 2:13.46	2:11.66
100 Breast	1.     Kierra Smith, 1:06.93 OQ 2.     Rachel Nicol, 1:07.10 OQ 3.     Tera Van Beilen, 1:07.89	1:07.85

Day 4 Coverage begins tomorrow night at 6:45 pm LIVE online on CBC Sports. Prelims begins at 10:00 am and you can follow those results along live on meet mobile or the result link.