Kylie Masse Nearly Breaks World Record on First Day of Canadian Swimming Trials

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The 2019 Canadian Swimming Trials from Toronto got started Wednesday morning with the heats of the 100 back, 200 breast and 50 fly, along with the heats of the 100 back para events. Reigning World Champion Kylie Masse put up the world’s fastest 100 back this morning and showed she is ready to get her world record back that she lost last summer to American Kathleen Baker.

Women’s 100 Back

Former world record holder Kylie Masse showed up in a big way Wednesday morning at the 2019 Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto with a 58.19 in the 100 back heats to just miss Kathleen Baker’s world record of 58.00. Masse was slightly off her Canadian record of 58.10 that she set at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest that stood as the world record until Baker broke it last summer.

Masse is ahead of a stacked field that includes former junior standouts Kayla Sanchez (59.82) and Jade Hannah (59.92). Taylor Ruck, coming off her freshman year at Stanford, is seeded fourth at 1:00.09. Another swimming coming off NCAAs, Louise Hansson (1:00.69), is seeded seventh for the final after winning two events at NCAAs two weeks ago.

Madison Broad (1:00.56), Danielle Hanus (1:00.65), Kennedy Goss (1:01.45), Hannah Henderson (1:01.60) and Kristie Steins (1:01.82) also placed in the top ten.

 Event 1  Women 100 LC Meter Backstroke
==================================================================
 2019 FINA  A: W 1:00.59
  2020 TRIALS: T 1:04.51
    Name           Year Team                 Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Masse, Kylie     96 TSC                 58.54      58.19W    q  
    r:+0.46  28.21        58.19 (29.98)
  2 Sanchez, Kayla   01 AAC               1:00.50      59.82W    q  
    r:+0.49  29.16        59.82 (30.66)
  3 Hannah, Jade     02 ISC               1:00.76      59.92W    q  
    r:+0.49  28.74        59.92 (31.18)
  4 Ruck, Taylor     00 SCAR                58.97    1:00.09W    q  
    r:+0.53  29.05      1:00.09 (31.04)
  5 Broad, Madison   00 CYPS              1:00.63    1:00.56W    q  
    r:+0.60  29.45      1:00.56 (31.11)
  6 Hanus, Danielle  98 ISC               1:00.54    1:00.65T    q  
    r:+0.52  29.24      1:00.65 (31.41)
  7 *Hansson, Louis  96 UNAT              1:01.21    1:00.69T    q  
    r:+0.55  29.29      1:00.69 (31.40)
  8 Goss, Kennedy    96 GGST              1:02.63    1:01.45T    q  
    r:+0.53  30.06      1:01.45 (31.39)
  9 Henderson, Hann  02 ESWIM             1:01.99    1:01.60T    q  
    r:+0.54  29.79      1:01.60 (31.81)
 10 *Steins, Kristi  95 LVA               1:02.55    1:01.82T    q  
    r:+0.58  30.12      1:01.82 (31.70)

Men’s 100 Back

Markus Thormeyer took advantage of no Javier Acevedo in the men’s 100 back heats at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto with a 53.83 to lead the qualifiers. Thormeyer is ahead of Dylan Carter (54.60), who is not eligible to represent Canada at the World Championships. The second fastest Canadian was Cole Pratt (55.42).

Singaporean Zheng Quah (55.45) has the fourth fastest time from this morning as he is not far removed from the Men’s NCAAs that were last week in Austin where he helped his Cal Golden Bears win the NCAA title.

Robert Hill (55.91), Tyler Wall (55.99), Anders Klein (56.12), Sebastian Somerset (56.16) Loc St-Martin (56.23) and Tim Zeng (56.47) also swam in the top ten this morning.

 Event 2  Men 100 LC Meter Backstroke
==================================================================
 2019 FINA  A: W 54.06
  2020 TRIALS: T 58.88
    Name           Year Team                 Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Thormeyer, Mark  97 UBCSC               53.78      53.83W    q  
    r:+0.61  25.92        53.83 (27.91)
  2 *Carter, Dylan   96 UNAT                55.35      54.60T    q  
    r:+0.51  25.93        54.60 (28.67)
  3 Pratt, Cole      02 CASC                55.98      55.42T    q  
    r:+0.57  26.96        55.42 (28.46)
  4 *Quah, Zheng We  96 SGP                 54.69      55.45T    q  
    r:+0.43  26.47        55.45 (28.98)
  5 Hill, Robert     96 UCSC                55.71      55.91T    q  
    r:+0.48  27.19        55.91 (28.72)
  6 Wall, Tyler      01 KISU                56.15      55.99T    q  
    r:+0.45  26.96        55.99 (29.03)
  7 Klein, Anders    97 UCSC                56.22      56.12T    q  
    r:+0.48  27.33        56.12 (28.79)
  8 Somerset, Sebas  01 CASC                55.99      56.16T    q  
    r:+0.51  27.10        56.16 (29.06)
  9 St-Martin, Loďc  00 CAMO                56.87      56.23T    q  
    r:+0.59  27.26        56.23 (28.97)
 10 Zeng, Tim        97 CHENA               56.69      56.47T    q  
    r:+0.47  27.08        56.47 (29.39)

Women’s 200 Breast

Also coming off the NCAA meet not too long ago is Sydney Pickrem, who is the top seed in the 200 breast at 2:26.06. Pickrem is ahead of fellow 2016 Olympian Kierra Smith (2:26.16) for tonight’s final as it will be a good race between those two and Kelsey Wog (2:26.68).

Miranda Stever (2:27.95) dropped two seconds off her best time as she qualified fourth for the final tonight.

All ten fastest qualifiers are all Canadian which shows good signs for Swimming Canada moving forward. Avery Wiseman (2:28.66), Nina Kucheran (2:28.86), Mary-Sophie Harvey (2:29.47), Bailey Herbert (2:29.72), Tess Cieplucha (2:30.38) and Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson (2:31.17) also qualified for the final.

Kucheran (Florida State) and Cieplucha (Tennessee) are also coming off the Women’s NCAA meet that concluded two weeks ago.

Event 3  Women 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
==================================================================
 2019 FINA  A: W 2:25.91
  2020 TRIALS: T 2:38.35
    Name           Year Team                 Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Pickrem, Sydney  97 UNCAN             2:24.41    2:26.06T    q  
    r:+0.61  33.37      1:10.65 (37.28)
        1:48.35 (37.70)     2:26.06 (37.71)
  2 Smith, Kierra    94 SCAR              2:23.62    2:26.16T    q  
    r:+0.70  33.46      1:10.75 (37.29)
        1:48.04 (37.29)     2:26.16 (38.12)
  3 Wog, Kelsey      98 UMAN              2:23.83    2:26.68T    q  
    r:+0.56  33.26      1:10.38 (37.12)
        1:48.04 (37.66)     2:26.68 (38.64)
  4 Stever, Miranda  98 TSC               2:29.87    2:27.95T    q  
    r:+0.64  33.26      1:10.67 (37.41)
        1:48.92 (38.25)     2:27.95 (39.03)
  5 Wiseman, Avery   02 OSC               2:28.20    2:28.66T    q  
    r:+0.71  33.27      1:11.08 (37.81)
        1:49.45 (38.37)     2:28.66 (39.21)
  6 Kucheran, Nina   00 SLSC              2:28.19    2:28.86T    q  
    r:+0.60  33.64      1:11.08 (37.44)
        1:49.04 (37.96)     2:28.86 (39.82)
  7 Harvey, Mary-So  99 CAMO              2:29.26    2:29.47T    q  
    r:+0.64  34.20      1:12.80 (38.60)
        1:51.11 (38.31)     2:29.47 (38.36)
  8 Herbert, Bailey  02 LOSC              2:29.47    2:29.72T    q  
    r:+0.69  33.93      1:12.19 (38.26)
        1:50.45 (38.26)     2:29.72 (39.27)
  9 Cieplucha, Tess  98 OAK               2:36.58    2:30.38T    q  
    r:+0.70  34.48      1:12.64 (38.16)
        1:51.21 (38.57)     2:30.38 (39.17)
 10 Seltenreich-Hod  95 GO                2:33.31    2:31.17T    q  
    r:+0.57  33.93      1:11.65 (37.72)
        1:50.79 (39.14)     2:31.17 (40.38)

Men’s 200 Breast

James Dergousoff had the top time in the 200 breast prelims with a 2:12.57 ahead of Eli Wall (2:13.42) and Connor Isings (2:16.05). The men’s breaststroke events are wide open in Canada especially without long-time veteran Richard Funk, who is only entered in the 50 and 100 breast this meet. Funk was the silver medalist in the 200 breast at the 2015 Pan American Games but has seemingly retired from this event at 26-years-of-age.

Jaren LeFranc (2:16.16) and Benjamin Blackmon (2:16.16) tied for the fourth seed for the final with all ten of the fastest times this morning coming from Canadians.

Jonathan Naisby (2:16.40), Tristan Cote (2:17.38) Gabe Mastromatteo (2:17.82), Finlay Knox (2:19.09) and Brodie Young (2:19.69) also qualified for the final.

 Event 4  Men 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
==================================================================
 2019 FINA  A: W 2:11.00
  2020 TRIALS: T 2:22.41
    Name           Year Team                 Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Dergousoff, Jam  96 CHENA             2:17.81    2:12.57T    q  
    r:+0.72  30.46      1:03.68 (33.22)
        1:37.29 (33.61)     2:12.57 (35.28)
  2 Wall, Eli        95 TSC               2:11.47    2:13.42T    q  
    r:+0.75  30.17      1:03.73 (33.56)
        1:38.11 (34.38)     2:13.42 (35.31)
  3 Isings, Connor   98 PCSC              2:15.67    2:16.05T    q  
    r:+0.78  30.29      1:04.26 (33.97)
        1:39.54 (35.28)     2:16.05 (36.51)
  4 LeFranc, Jaren   99 KISU              2:15.85    2:16.16T    q  
    r:+0.74  31.18      1:05.60 (34.42)
        1:40.32 (34.72)     2:16.16 (35.84)
  4 Blackmon, Benja  96 CHENA             2:17.61    2:16.16T    q  
    r:+0.68  31.20      1:05.94 (34.74)
        1:40.50 (34.56)     2:16.16 (35.66)
  6 Naisby, Jonatha  93 SHER              2:14.91    2:16.40T    q  
    r:+0.71  31.00      1:05.62 (34.62)
        1:40.60 (34.98)     2:16.40 (35.80)
  7 Cote, Tristan    95 UCSC              2:19.18    2:17.38T    q  
    r:+0.77  31.33      1:05.88 (34.55)
        1:41.10 (35.22)     2:17.38 (36.28)
  8 Mastromatteo, G  02 KSS               2:15.53    2:17.82T    q  
    r:+0.63  30.96      1:07.30 (36.34)
        1:42.83 (35.53)     2:17.82 (34.99)
  9 Knox, Finlay     01 MAVS              2:17.60    2:19.09T    q  
    r:+0.74  31.64      1:08.09 (36.45)
        1:43.63 (35.54)     2:19.09 (35.46)
 10 Young, Brodie    00 UBCSC             2:19.76    2:19.69T    q  
    r:+0.82  31.47      1:06.87 (35.40)
        1:43.47 (36.60)     2:19.69 (36.22)

Women’s 50 Fly

Olympic gold medalist Penny Oleksiak (26.08) had the fastest time of the morning in the 50 butterfly heats on Wednesday morning at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto. Oleksiak is ahead of Swede Louise Hansson (26.31) who had the fastest 100 fly in short course yards not too long ago. Former Auburn swimmer Haley Black (26.77)

 Event 5  Women 50 LC Meter Butterfly
==================================================================
 2019 FINA  A: W 26.34
    Name           Year Team                 Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Oleksiak, Penel  00 TSC                 25.88      26.08W    q  
         r:+0.73                       
  2 *Hansson, Louis  96 UNAT                26.11      26.31W    q  
         r:+0.72                       
  3 Black, Haley     96 PGB                 26.87      26.77     q  
         r:+0.68                       
  4 Watson, Sarah    00 UMAN                27.25      26.93     q  
  5 Fazekas, Sadie   97 WAC                 27.72      26.98     q  
         r:+0.64                       
  5 Hannah, Jade     02 ISC                 27.09      26.98     q  
         r:+0.70                       
  7 MacNeil, Margar  00 LAC                 26.99      26.99     q  
         r:+0.68                       
  8 Leibel, Kyla     01 RDCSC               27.50      27.13     q  
         r:+0.76                       
  9 *Tam, Hoi Lam    98 UBCSC               27.39      27.23     q  
         r:+0.70                       
 10 Hanus, Danielle  98 ISC                 27.63      27.37     q  
         r:+0.73                       
 10 *Nogaj, Paulina  98 AKRN                27.72      27.37     q  
         r:+0.72

Men’s 50 Fly

Will Pisani is on top in the 50 fly heats with a 23.85. Pisani is not far removed from the Men’s NCAA meet last week where he represented Florida State. He is ahead of former Auburn swimmer Luis Martinez (23.86), who represents Guatemala. Nikola Miljenic, who swims for Southern California (24.09) is the third seed.

The second fastest Canadian from the morning was Josiah Binnema (24.54) with Joshua Liendo (24.70) in the third fastest Canadian spot.

 Event 6  Men 50 LC Meter Butterfly
==================================================================
 2019 FINA  A: W 23.66
    Name           Year Team                 Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Pisani, William  97 UNCAN               24.24      23.85        
         r:+0.72                       
  2 *Martínez, Luis  95 GUA                 23.26      23.86        
         r:+0.67                       
  3 *Miljenic, Niko  98 UNAT                24.13      24.09        
         r:+0.70                       
  4 Binnema, Josiah  97 UBCSC               24.30      24.54        
  5 *Carter, Dylan   96 UNAT                23.11      24.69        
         r:+0.68                       
  6 Liendo, Joshua   02 NYAC                25.10      24.70        
         r:+0.67                       
  7 Perreault, Alex  98 OTTSC               24.21      24.72        
         r:+0.63                       
  7 *Robrock, Kyle   93 DU-CO               24.26      24.72        
         r:+0.69                       
  9 Cruz Zuniga, Gu  00 CAMO                24.88      24.75        
         r:+0.71                       
 10 Ayoubi, Mehdi    98 CAMO                24.59      24.83
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