Day one of the Speedo Eastern Canadian Championships went underway today in Windsor, Ont. displaying some of the fastest Canadian age-groupers and some of Canada’s fastest overall.
The meet started with the women’s 15&under 50m fly, an event won by 14 year old Danika Huizinga from Ajax in 27.08. The 14 year old beat out Danielle Hanus from Newmarket who finished second well behind in 27.52. Hanus is the Canadian age-group record holder in the 13-14 year old 100m backstroke.
Caro Lapierre-Lemire won the 50m fly in the 16&over category, separating herself from the field with a 26.86. The 23-year-old was the fastest overall swimmer in the event for the evening, amazingly 14 year old Huizinga was second overall.
Adrian Goin won the men’s 16&under 50m fly with a 24.95. Goin was the only swimmer to break the 25 second mark in the final, Alexandre Perreault finished second in 25.15. Aidan Chow was third in 25.40.
The 17&over final was faster, but not by much. Cameron Kidd took the win in 24.44, defeating second place competitor Adrian VanderHelm by over half a second.
Mary-Sophie Harvey posted a swift 2:01.42 in the 200m freestyle to take the win over 50m fly victor Huizinga (2:02.15). Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Buscher won the 16&over version of the event in 1:59.70, being the only women to break two minutes tonight.
Danielle Hanus stepped up in her speciality, the 100m backstroke to grab the gold in 59.24. Hanus, only 15, is coming much closer to Sinead Russell’s age group record of 58.47 that she set back in 2010. Huizinga added a bronze to her already impressive medal count in the event, if anyone was keeping count, yes she swam every event so far.
Hanus’ time was the fastest of the evening, even beating all the girls in the 16&over final. Kylie Masse won that in 1:01.03, a time that would not have even medalled in the 15&under final.
Oakville’s Matthew Mac took the men’s 16&under 100m backstroke final in 55.36. That result would have earned him second in the men’s 17&over final which was won by Newmarket’s Matthew Swanston in 54.06. Swanston is known as one of the top backstrokers in Canada, currently sitting second behind World Championship team member Russell Wood in the overall Canadian rankings.
Cassandra Drescher won the girls 200m breaststroke in a time of 2:32.05. Second place finisher Sofia Carnevale from the Etobicoke Swim Club grabbed the silver in 2:33.65. Genevieve Robertson won the 16&over final in 2:28.55.
Osvald Nitski and Tyler Tong-McDermott went head to head in the men’s 16&under 200m breaststroke final. The two swimmers took it down to the last 50 where Nitski threw down a split of 35.51 to beat Tong-McDermott to the wall and grab the gold. Nitski won in 2:17.41 and Tong-McDermott picked up the silver in 2:17.84. Jean-Francois Crevier won the 17&over final in 2:16.10.
Oakville’s Tessa Cieplucha grabbed the 800m freestyle gold in 8:48.76. Sixteen-year-old Keira Brazeau won the 17&over in 8:45.14.
The women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, an open event, was no contest; the Windosr Essex Swim Club destroyed their competition winning in a time of 3:46.96. The WEST girls finished almost three full seconds ahead of the Mégophias girls.
The Elite men took the men’s version of the event in 3:24.37 over the Point Claire Swim Club men who touched in at 3:24.94. Nicholas Lafleur threw down the fastest split of the night in a 50.11, running out of pool to catch the Elite men.
Day two finals will take place tomorrow, for full results click here.