{"id":474475,"date":"2021-05-28T23:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=474475"},"modified":"2021-05-29T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T14:58:45","slug":"kayla-sanchez-fires-best-time-with-24-81-in-50-free-at-toronto-test-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kayla-sanchez-fires-best-time-with-24-81-in-50-free-at-toronto-test-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Sanchez Fires Best Time with 24.81 in 50 free at Toronto Test Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kayla Sanchez<\/strong> fired a warning shot to her fellow competitors in the Canadian sprint field, clocking in 24.81 seconds to win the 50 freestyle Friday on the last day of the Toronto High Performance Test Event.<\/p>\n

Sanchez entered with a seed time of 25.55 but bested the field by four tenths in 24.81. It\u2019s a personal-best, downing the 24.94 turned in at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships<\/a>. It\u2019s also her second best time of the month, complementing a 53.37 she went in the 100 free at time trial earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old, who recovered from a shoulder injury<\/a> that kept her out of the 2020 International Swimming League season, is not among the five Canadian women who\u2019ve been provisionally selected to the Tokyo Olympics team<\/a>. But she\u2019s a contender in several events to say nothing of being a vital relay cog.<\/p>\n

Second in the event was Maggie MacNeil<\/strong> in 25.21. Rebecca Smith<\/strong> was third in 25.68 with Kylie Masse<\/strong> fifth (25.99). Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> did not swim the event, though she has had a strong week at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The High Performance Test Event, originally slated for earlier in May, is a dry run for June\u2019s trials at the same venue<\/a>. Unlike a smaller event earlier this month<\/a>, this meet includes not just swimmers from the Toronto High Performance Centre like Sanchez as well as clubs in Ontario and Quebec, but swimmers who train at the HPC in British Columbia.<\/p>\n

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Sanchez\u2019s was the biggest swim of the day. Second was another quick time from Brent Hayden,<\/strong> who again laid down his fastest time since returning from retirement<\/a> at 22.08 in winning the 50 free. Second was Joshua Liendo<\/strong> in 22.29; as Hayden pointed out on social media after they combined to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in the 400 free relay Thursday, the 18-year-old was born after Hayden had qualified for his first Olympics. Yuri Kisil<\/strong> was third in 22.52.<\/p>\n
The quartet of Hayden (48.47),\u00a0Liendo (48.28), Kisil (48.03) and\u00a0Markus Thormeyer\u00a0<\/strong>(48.31) swam a 3:13.09, which is the quickest among the four wild card teams.<\/p>\n
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