2024 Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Trials
- May 13-19, 2024
- Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre – Toronto, Ontario
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
The pre-scratch psych sheets for the 2024 Canadian Olympic Trials were released on Monday with one week to go until the seven-day competition gets underway from the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.
The psych sheets confirm Summer McIntosh‘s reported entry list of seven events, which includes the women’s 100 free and 100 back and is missing the 800 free.
McIntosh owns the top seed in six of her entries, the five races she won at the 2023 Trials (200 free, 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM) along with the 100 free, while she ranks 3rd in the 100 back behind Kylie Masse and Ingrid Wilm.
McIntosh’s entries give her the option of doing one race per day, as there are no semi-finals at the Trials.
McIntosh’s Trials Schedule
- Monday – 400 free
- Tuesday – 200 free
- Wednesday – 100 back
- Thursday – 400 IM
- Friday – 100 free
- Saturday – 200 fly
- Sunday – 200 IM
However, looking ahead to Paris, it’s tough to imagine McIntosh racing the 100 back even if she were to qualify, as the semis fall during the same session as the 200 free and 400 IM finals. We could see the 17-year-old race the 100 free in Toronto, maybe just a heats swim, to solidify a spot on the 400 free relay (though that’s not in question).
Other notable entrants include Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck, who have won medals at the last two Olympics but have recently dealt with injuries and changed training bases, raising some uncertainty on their form.
Ruck has been competing frequently since joining Arizona State’s pro group, however, and is coming off a 5th-place finish in the women’s 50 free at the 2024 World Championships. Oleksiak, who moved to Mission Viejo last year, hasn’t competed as much but showed progression from the Westmont Pro Swim in March to last month’s Canadian Open.
Both swimmers have entered the women’s 50, 100 and 200 free, and Ruck will also take on the 100 back.
Mary-Sophie Harvey has been on an impressive run of form of late and has opted to enter five races, including the event she’s seen significant progress in this year, the 200 free.
NOTABLE ENTRIES
Women
- Summer McIntosh – 100/200/400 free, 100 back, 200 fly, 200/400 IM
- Penny Oleksiak – 50/100/200 free
- Taylor Ruck – 50/100/200 free, 100 back
- Maggie MacNeil – 100 free, 100 fly
- Kylie Masse – 100/200 back, 100 fly
- Rebecca Smith – 50/100/200 free, 100 fly
- Sydney Pickrem – 100/200 breast, 200/400 IM
- Mary-Sophie Harvey – 100/200 free, 100 fly, 200/400 IM
- Katerine Savard – 50/100/200 free, 100 fly
- Mabel Zavaros – 400/800 free, 200 fly, 200/400 IM
- Ella Jansen – 100/200/400/800 free, 200 fly, 200/400 IM
- Alexanne Lepage – 100/200 breast, 200 IM
- Kelsey Wog – 100/200 breast
- Julie Brousseau – 50/100/200/400/800 free, 200 breast, 200/400 IM
On the men’s side, Josh Liendo is the lone swimmer coming off a medal-winning performance at the 2023 World Championships, taking silver in the 100 fly, and he’s set to race the 50, 100 and 200 free along with the 100 fly.
Newly-minted world champion Finlay Knox, who won an upset title in the men’s 200 IM in Doha, holds a whopping six entries at the meet, possibly with eyes on a few free relay berths to go along with the 200 IM (and maybe the 100 fly or 100 breast) individually.
Fresh off a standout freshman year in the NCAA, Ilya Kharun has taken on a relatively light program with four entries. He’ll race both fly events as expected, and is also scheduled to go in the 100 free, with a relay spot on the line, and the 50 free, which was his third event (along with the 100/200 fly) at the NCAA Championships.
Notably missing is Ruslan Gaziev, a prominent piece of the 400 free relay in the past who was sanctioned by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport earlier this year.
NOTABLE ENTRIES
Men
- Josh Liendo – 50/100/200 free, 100 fly
- Finlay Knox – 100/200 free, 100 back, 100 breast, 100 fly, 200 IM
- Ilya Kharun – 50/100 free, 100/200 fly
- Yuri Kisil – 50/100 free
- Lorne Wigginton – 200/400 free, 100 fly, 200/400 IM
- Tristan Jankovics – 200 free, 200 back, 200/400 IM
- Javier Acevedo – 50/100/200 free, 100 back
- Hugh McNeill – 100/200 back
The competition will run all of the next week, May 13-19, from the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in the Ontario capital.
Just watch Summer Mcintosh absolutely crush Paris. After all it is called the Summer Olympics!
I wonder the time Summer will have to swim in the 200 IM at the trials to put to curb the idea of her swimming the 800 fr. I’m starting to think she could set the world record in that event & some of you would still think she should swim the 800 free.
Missing a lot of Canadian female distance swimmers… anyone heard anything about Dunford and Bellio swimming?
Unfortunately, Katrina had a chain of shoulder injuries, so she is out for a while 🙁
Dunford seems to have lost the “spark”
The big question I’m asking is, will we see a sub-minute 100 br flat start since Funk?
Thanks SwimSwam for posting the psych sheet. I couldn’t help to notice the number of unattached Canadian swimmers at trials. My biggest surprise was REINA LIU an age grouper wonder from North Carolina swimming. Is she dual citizen? Let’s hope the parents have a birth certificate handy, otherwise we will have another Ilya Kharun situation.
Many Stealth Canadians suddenly become apparent at Canadian Olympic Trials each cycle!
No wonder Kayla Sanchez left the Canadian team and switched to Philippines! There was no chance at all for Sanchez to make this year’s Olympic team under Canada with these line-ups, even in relays. She hasn’t registered any Olympic consideration times in her individual events with 1 month to go. But she might be sent to Paris Olympics merely by Universality Place (2 Unqualified Athletes -1 male & 1 female).
It’s gonna be a 🔥 Summer Olympics for our Canadian stars in Paris. 🇨🇦
Ruslan, any word? Completely not eligible? Is he fighting the ruling from the winter? Retiring? Big hit to 4*1 assuming he’s 100% no go next week
Side note, but semi related: Thormayer officially retire or just simply not train or announce anything since his suspension ended last year?
Thormeyer hasn’t announced anything, but seems for all intents and purposes he’s retired.
Will try and get an update on Gaziev.
Brent, we need you! 🦸♂️
Will there be free livestream for Europeans?
I did always see CBC geoblocked. No problem with a VPN
No Geolock on location for CBC this year