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Penny Oleksiak will not compete at next month’s Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. The quadruple Olympic medallist won the 100-m freestyle and 100-m butterfly at this week’s Canadian Swimming Trials in Edmonton. After qualifying for the team, the 18-year-old from Toronto has come to a joint decisio...

Penny Oleksiak and Brent Hayden both turned in quick 100 freestyle Wednesday on Day 1 of the three-day Take5 High Performance Test Event hosted by Swimming Canada. Oleksiak was just off her seed time in going 53.67 in the 100 free. Second was Maggie MacNeil in 54.06, with Rebecca Smith third and Tay...

With Brent Hayden Leading, Youthful Canadian Men’s Program Shows Promise in Tokyo The hope for the Canadian men’s program before its Trials in late June was to see progress. A performance like the women’s team, which garnered six medals from the Tokyo Olympics, would be beyond any reasonable expecta...

Markus Thormeyer earned his first win of the TYR Pro Swim Series Clovis with a 1:59.24 in the 200 backstroke. HEAT SHEET LIVE STREAM LIVE RESULTS Men's 200 Backstroke Canada's Markus Thormeyer raced to victory in the 200 back, coming in at 1:59.24. His season best is a 1:57.42 form earlier this year...

Column: Lack of Transparency in Chinese Doping Tests a Glaring Failure of Anti-Doping Authorities For a year in the middle of his career, Markus Thormeyer was essentially nowhere, by statutory requirement. The Canadian Olympic swimmer tested positive for a banned substance on Jan. 19, 2022, in an ou...

On His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now Jeremy Bagshaw looked at the video board and wouldn’t let himself believe it at first. For five Olympic cycles, from a 16-year-old prodigy from British Columbia in 2008 to a 32-year-old medical school graduate who’d been to four World Ch...

Now On Road to Paris Games, Swimming Canada Riding Massive Wave of Momentum John Atkinson’s message of uncertainty was, in its paradoxical way, consistent. Swimming Canada’s High Performance Director was unsure what the Tokyo Olympics would bring. As one of the last major swimming nations to return ...

Swimming Canada on Friday postponed the Canadian Olympic Trials to late May over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. It also provisionally named six swimmers to the Olympic squad. The six are: Kylie Masse, 100 and 200 backstroke Maggie MacNeil, 100 butterfly Penny Oleksiak, 200 freestyle Sydney Pi...

Canadian sprint star Kayla Sanchez announced via Instagram that she’ll be attending the University of British Columbia in the fall. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kayla Sanchez (@kaylasanchez_) Sanchez, 19, is a native of Scarbor...

By Brian Palaschuk, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming Canada’s Junior team is one of the most successful in the world. Despite a relatively small competitive swimming population of 35,000 year-round swimmers compared to the United States’ 355,000, the Canadian Junior team is extremely competit...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. The Southern California Trojans got another verbal commitment to beef up next year’s freshman class to go al...

The final knockout race of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series Santa Clara included Markus Thormeyer, Kyle Decoursey, Tate Jackson, Aleksandr Loginov, Zach Apple, Michael Chadwick, Meiron Cheruti, Josh Fleagle and Dean Farris.  Competing in his second knockout of the day, Thormeyer won the first round afte...

The UBC Thunderbirds men's swim program is proud to announce that Markus Thormeyer, widely considered one of the brightest young talents in Canadian swimming, has committed to the Blue and Gold, and will be joining the program in Fall 2016. For Thormeyer, who has been training at the Swimming Canada...

Olympic Spot in Hand, Markus Thormeyer Chasing More at Canadian Trials The COVID-19 pandemic left Markus Thormeyer out of the water for four months last year. From March through the end of July, through a postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Thormeyer was unable to train. Instead, he and the oth...

2020s Vision: The Athlete Voice The story of Markus Thormeyer reminds us of another way in which The Athlete Voice - about so much more than 'more money and freedom to race where I want' - has been and remains so important when it comes to helping shape the future of sport and make it a healthier pl...

In Re-Retirement, Brent Hayden Calls Time on His Terms Brent Hayden was as surprised as anyone that he’d come back to swimming in 2019. But as he fell back in love with the sport, he sought something that eluded him in the first go-around: A chance to, at the very least, call it a career on his term...

Michael Chadwick, who just moved out to San Diego to train with Team Elite, held off Nathan Adrian in the 100 free final on the last night of the 2018 US Winter Nationals in Greensboro. Chadwick was out quick and hung on to win the final at 48.57. Chadwick held off the 2012 Olympic Gold medalist Adr...

Swimming Canada will send a 25-member team (13 men, 12 women) consisting of Olympic and world championship medalists to the FINA World Swimming Championships, being held July 12-28. Included on the team is Kylie Masse (University of Toronto), the reigning world champion in the 100-m backstroke and a...

The second night of competition at the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series Clovis featured five events including a victorious 200 freestyle for Trey Freeman. DAY 2 RESULTS Men's 200 Freestyle Trey Freeman was able to hold off a charging Townley Haas 1:47.86 to 1:48.02. Freeman held the lead for the entirety of...

U SPORTS and Swimming Canada have partnered on the 2021 University Swimming Challenge, a virtual competition to replace the usual U SPORTS Championships. The announcement was made Saturday as a replacement for the U SPORTS Championships, Canada’s equivalent of the NCAA championships. The winter U SP...