{"id":614228,"date":"2025-06-07T17:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=614228"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:16:45","slug":"canadian-trials-mary-sophie-harvey-drops-lifetime-best-in-200-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/canadian-trials-mary-sophie-harvey-drops-lifetime-best-in-200-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Trials: Mary-Sophie Harvey Drops Lifetime Best in 200 Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Trials: Mary-Sophie Harvey Drops Lifetime Best in 200 Breast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary-Sophie Harvey<\/strong> has devoted more training to the 200 breaststroke, an event she has only swum sparingly. The focus is paying off.<\/p>\n

Harvey went 2:23.40 on Saturday, the first night of Bell Canadian Trials, to get the win and get to the World Championships. That started a night that ended with Summer McIntosh <\/strong>setting a world record in the women’s 400 freestyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harvey entered with a seed time 2:24.22. The 200 freestyler and IMer cut eight tenths off that, one of three Canadians to hit the A standard for the 2025 World Championships in Singapore. Harvey had gone 2:27.67 at Canadian trials in 2023. Before that 2:24 in early April at the Speedo Canadian Open, her best time in the event had dated to 2017 when she went a 2:25.37 four days before her 18th birthday.<\/p>\n