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Canada’s Tokyo 2020 Team Announced

June 24, 2021

Swimming Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have announced Canada’s swimming team nominated to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 26 athletes were nominated to the team to represent Canada in Tokyo. Swim BC would like to congratulate all the BC athletes who were named to the Olympic team. We are proud of your accomplishments and you are an excellent representative for BC Swimming.

The BC athletes named to the Tokyo Olympic team are:

Brent Hayden (Mission BC) – Pool

Kierra Smith (Kelowna, BC) – Pool

Markus Thormeyer (Delta, BC) – Pool

Hau-Li Fan (Burnaby, BC) – Open Water

Also, congratulations to Janice Hanan (Victoria, BC) for being named as Team Manager.

The Olympic pool swimming competition will take place July 24 to August 1 (Day 1 to 9) at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Open water swimming will take place on August 4 and August 5 (Day 12 and 13) at the Odaiba Marine Park.