{"id":496561,"date":"2022-02-07T06:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=496561"},"modified":"2022-02-07T06:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:23:58","slug":"joshua-liendo-canadian-youngster-ready-to-take-the-next-big-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/joshua-liendo-canadian-youngster-ready-to-take-the-next-big-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Liendo: Canadian Youngster Ready to Take the Next Big Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joshua Liendo: Canadian Youngster Ready to Take the Next Big Step<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Only 18 at the time, sprinter Joshua Liendo treated last summer in Tokyo as an opportunity to gain experience in his first Olympics. He competed in three individual events and swam on two relays, including the 400 free relay that broke the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimming.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian<\/a> record while finishing fourth. With added confidence, the podium in Paris in 2024 now becomes the more realistic aim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joshua Liendo\u2019s<\/strong> primary job at the Tokyo Olympics was to watch and learn. There was little chance that the Canadian sprinter could stop himself from doing the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Liendo wouldn\u2019t turn 19 until later in August. Career-defining as the Olympic berth was, it came with a sense of the future. Tokyo offered a chance to compete, something in drastically short supply since the pandemic began, and to find their feet on the sport\u2019s grandest stage.<\/p>\n<p>Given Liendo\u2019s signature approach, a blend of curiosity and composure, he needed no reminder about what could be gained in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust watching the best in the world, what they do, what mistakes they don\u2019t make and what mistakes I make,\u201d Liendo said in December before the FINA Short Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi. \u201cAnd that\u2019s something I really touched on in my training when I got back. I\u2019m just a smarter athlete now, and the Olympics helped me out a lot with that and where I can get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Liendo showed in the UAE, his potential is limitless. His assault on Canada\u2019s record boards has been steady through the years. But what has Liendo primed for the next step\u2014from a swimmer with Olympic A cuts to a genuine medal contender\u2014is the same mentality that has taken him this far in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Josh isn\u2019t done yet,\u201d <strong>Eddie Toro<\/strong>, Liendo\u2019s longtime coach at North York Aquatic Club, told Swimming World. \u201cHe\u2019s having way too much fun with this. If there is any pressure on him, we can\u2019t tell. He handles it so well. He just learned to make this a very fun experience for him, and I say that very genuinely. I think that helps him so much because the more elite he gets, he\u2019s just more relaxed than the rest of the guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>From Canada to Trinidad and Back<\/h3>\n<p>Liendo\u2019s swimming journey began in a childhood split between countries. He was born in Scarborough, Ontario, in 2002, but spent much of his youth in Trinidad &amp; Tobago. The island nation is where he learned to swim (and developed an academic interest in marine biology), but he dabbled in a variety of sports there, from football to gymnastics to baseball, his parents split on hoping he\u2019d gravitate toward the latter two. Upon returning to Canada at age 9, the family settled in Markham, and Liendo started club swimming, first at Toronto Olympian Swim Team (TORCH), then NYAC.<\/p>\n<p>Watching <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> inspired Liendo to become a butterflyer. When Liendo sprouted a 6-foot-4 frame, it would prove a prescient choice. Liendo has described butterfly choosing him rather than the other way around, and the stroke became the rock around which Toro and the late <strong>Murray Drudge<\/strong> at NYAC helped Liendo build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew that he always had butterfly to fall back on,\u201d Toro says. \u201cIt was just this relationship with the stroke that, \u2018I got it.\u2019 From an early age, you don\u2019t need to understand it too much\u2014it just comes out. And as he gets older, you point out things you want to keep, things that make butterfly very efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That latter process, Toro said, hits at the heart of Liendo\u2019s mentality. He describes Liendo as studious, with the humility to understand where he needs to improve, the initiative to seek out those lessons and the diligence to incorporate them into training. Toro saw that firsthand for years, and he\u2019s certain that that trait is tailored for Liendo as he reaches international notoriety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwimming is a passion for him, and he just had this curiosity and this mission to get better, not just in a physical way, but in details,\u201d Toro says. \u201cYou could see through his eyes that when you\u2019re talking to him, the wheels are turning very quickly. He has this ability from a young age that still carries with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>On An Upward Trajectory<\/h3>\n<p>Toro started working with Liendo at age 12, and he had an inkling that the swimmer\u2019s mental toolkit was special. But he didn\u2019t understand how tremendous the pieces could be when fully assembled until Liendo was 14.<\/p>\n<p>As Liendo recalled in a recent podcast interview, the 2017 Canadian Junior Championships were a rare moment where his coaches thought him a tad too ambitious. His best time in the 100 fly had been a 56.49, but Liendo felt sure he had a sub-55 swim in him.<\/p>\n<p>All Liendo did was trim nearly two seconds off his best time, setting a Canadian 13-14 age group record at 54.76 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat swim,\u201d Toro says, \u201cwhen I watched it, I said, this guy is going to make it very far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NAG record came just a year after Liendo had set his first Ontario age-group mark, and the rocket ride kept going. His watershed year was 2019: Liendo set age-group marks for 15-17 in the 100 fly and 100 free. Both times\u201449.17 in the 100 free and 52.13 in the 100 fly\u2014are quicker than the American 15-16 marks, placing him ahead of <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> (49.28 100 free, 2013) and <strong>Luca Urlando<\/strong> (52.40), who had downed Phelps\u2019 100 fly record in 2018. (Liendo was 16 for the fly swim and five days past his 17th birthday for the 100 free.)<\/p>\n<p>Liendo got his first taste of senior competition at the 2019 World Championships, then won a silver medal in the 100 free and two relay medals at World Juniors later that summer. He was named Canada\u2019s male junior swimmer of the year, at the forefront of a wave of young talent the program hoped would complement its ascendant women\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<h3>Olympic Debut<\/h3>\n<p>Liendo didn\u2019t let the Olympic postponement dent his momentum. He set the Canadian record in the 100 fly at Olympic Trials at 51.40 seconds. While Tokyo didn\u2019t hold a medal, Liendo advanced to the semifinals of the 100 fly and 100 free and swam two relay finals, the men\u2019s 400 free squad with a shocking fourth-place result.<\/p>\n<p>In Abu Dhabi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/historic-short-course-worlds-cements-canadas-place-as-swimming-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liendo added three national SCM marks<\/a>. He won bronze in the 50 and 100 free and helped the Canadian mixed 200 free relay to gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going in with more confidence. I\u2019m really excited to race,\u201d Liendo said before Worlds. \u201cThere\u2019s obviously some fast guys here, some of the best in the world. In my training, it\u2019s been thinking about what I need to do to be up there with the best in the world, so I\u2019ll be able to measure myself, test out where I am against the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In so many areas, Toro says, Liendo already is among the best. His times are merely catching up. Liendo\u2019s mental approach melds the wisdom of a veteran with the joy of an age grouper. Toro lauds the latter as keeping him fresh, willing to learn and grow. Liendo achieves that by keeping things in perspective, trying to leave his performances at the pool, with neither success nor failures staying with him long.<\/p>\n<p>That savvy fuels Toro\u2019s optimism that Liendo is equipped to take the next big step.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a very unique feature in Josh that I haven\u2019t seen in a swimmer since, honestly,\u201d Toro says. \u201cSwimmers tend to get to that point later on when they\u2019re in their 20s, and now they\u2019re really taking their career to the next level, but Josh had that from an early age. 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