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2024 Olympic and Paralympic Trials Wrap-up
May 27, 2024
An exciting 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Trials recently completed at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. The competition served as the selection competition for the 2024 Paris Olympic, 2024 Paris Paralympics, 2024 World Junior Championships, and the 2024 World Junior Open Water Championships.
The competition saw world records, several national records and many provincial records broken in a competition.
BC based swimmers and swimmers representing BC programs making the team Olympic and Paralympic teams include:
2024 Olympic Games
Swimmers
Jeremy Bagshaw (ISC)
Emma O’Croinin (HPC – Vancouver).
Staff
Scott Talbot, Coach (HPC – Vancouver)
Support Staff
Jan Hanan, Team Manager (Vancouver)
Tom Vandebogaerde, Performance Scientist (HPC Vancouver)
Two additional swimmers who train full time in BC but represent out of province clubs also made the team Finlay Knox and Blake Tierney (both train at HPC Vancouver).
2024 Paralympic Games
Swimmers
Sebastian Massabie (PSW) Coach: Jy Lawrence
Fernando Lu (LOSC) Coach: Ryan Skomorowski
2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Canberra, Australia / August 12 – 26, 2024
Swimmers
Leilani Fack (LOSC) Coach: Brian Metcalfe
Julia Strojnowska (LOSC) Coach: Brian Metcalfe
Shima Taghavi (HYACK) Coach: Andrew Lennstrom
Tuja Dreyer (ISC) Coach: Lucien Zucchi
Aiden Kirk (KAJ) Coach: Marc Tremblay
World Aquatics Open Water Swimming Junior World Championships
Alghero, Italy / September 6-8, 2024
Swimmers
Julia Strojnowska (LOSC) Coach: Brian Metcalfe
Michelle Zeng (WVOSC) Coach: Janusz Kaczmarek
Aiden Kirk (KAJ) Coach: Marc Tremblay
Olivier Risk (UBCT) Coach: Derrick Schoof
The following pending records were broken by Swim BC swimmers at the competition:
World Record
Men’s Para S4 50 Fly Sebastian Massibie, PSW (38.68)
Canadian Record
Men’s Para S4 50 Free Sebastian Massibie, PSW (38.48)
Men’s Para S4 100 Free Sebastian Massibie, PSW (1:23.88)
Men’s Para S4 200 Free Sebastian Massibie, PSW (3:07.00)
Men’s Para S4 50 Back Sebastian Massibie, PSW (53.74)
Women’s 11 – 12 100 Breast Shima Taghavi, HYACK (1:10.78)
Women’s 11 – 12 200 Breast Shima Taghavi, HYACK (2:32.60)
Men’s Para S4 50 Fly Sebastian Massibie, PSW (38.68)
Men’s Para SM4 150 IM Sebastian Massibie, PSW (3:00.34)
BC Record
Women’s 11 – 12 100 Breast Shima Taghavi, HYACK (1:10.78)
Women’s 11 – 12 200 Breast Shima Taghavi, HYACK (2:32.60)
Women’s 11 – 12 400 IM Shima Taghavi, HYACK (5:04.66)
Women’s 13 – 14 50 Free Kelly Choi, KAJ (25.86)
Women’s 15 – 17 50 Free Leilani Fack, LOSC (25.55)
Sebastian Massibie was recognized as the Para Swimmer of the meet for his world record breaking swim in the 50 Fly.
Additionally, Julia Strojnowski (Langley Olympian Swim Club) and Kelly Choi (Kelowna AquaJets) were honored with the $1500 Victor Davis Memorial Award during the competition.
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Swim BC congratulates all swimmers and coaches competing and excelling at the Trials. We also pass along our profound thanks to all the supportive parents, clubs and officials who made the swimmers dreams of attending Trials a reality.