2024 Summer season Ontario Swimming Championships
- July 4-7, 2024
- Toronto Pan Am Sports activities Centre – Toronto, Ontario
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Outcomes
Markham Aquatic Membership standout Annie Xu had an unbelievable efficiency and a trio of Paris Olympians obtained in some tune-up races on the Summer season Ontario Swimming Championships in Toronto.
The provincial championship meet noticed the 11-year-old Xu, formally listed in outcomes as “Huini Xu,” received seven occasions within the women’ 13 & underneath age group, producing the quickest time in Canadian historical past for an 11-year-old in six races.
Xu already held the excellence of being the quickest 11-year-old in Canada within the 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500 free, and improved her marks in all these races, and he or she overtook Summer season McIntosh for the highest time within the 200 IM.
Xu’s Performances
- 100 free – 59.44 overtook her earlier normal of 59.64 from Might
- 200 free – 2:07.62 overtook her earlier normal of two:08.49 from March
- 400 free – 4:25.61 overtook her earlier normal of 4:26.52 from Might
- 800 free – 8:59.32 overtook her earlier normal of 9:12.17 from Might
- 1500 free – 17:15.49 overtook her earlier normal of 17:22.98 from Might
- 200 IM – 2:25.10 overtook McIntosh’s earlier normal of two:25.52 from July 2018
Xu now ranks 2nd within the women’ 11-12 age group all-time within the 800 free and 1500 free, trailing McIntosh who holds each NAG information with respective instances of 8:51.71 and 17:07.33.
You will need to be aware that Xu’s eligibility for setting official information is unknown—SwimSwam has reached out to Swimming Canada for clarification.
Xu additionally received the 400 IM in 5:07.74, shy of her PB of 5:03.88 set in April, and positioned third within the 200 fly in a greatest time of two:31.39.
OLYMPIANS COMPETING
Three members of the 2024 Canadian Olympic crew have been in motion on the Toronto Pan Am Sports activities Centre (TPASC), all of whom practice at that pool with the Excessive Efficiency – Ontario squad.
Lorne Wigginton, who certified for the Olympic crew within the males’s 400 IM and 800 free relay, received the lads’s 200 free in a time of 1:49.21, simply over a second shy of the PB he set on the Olympic Trials in Might (1:47.93).
Ella Jansen additionally raced the 200 free, claiming the ladies’s occasion in 1:58.58 to return inside a half-second of the very best time she set on the Mare Nostrum Tour in Might 2023 (1:58.09). Jansen made the Canadian Olympic crew within the girls’s 400 IM, and also will be in consideration to swim the prelim 800 free relay in Paris.
Additionally racing was Apollo Hess, who was the runner-up within the males’s 100 breast on the Olympic Trials and was given a discretionary Olympic roster spot for the medley relay.
After setting a PB of 1:00.99 within the 100 breast at Trials, Hess clocked 1:02.30 within the prelims earlier than scratching the ultimate, whereas he clocked 2:17.38 within the 200 breast to put 2nd to Markham’s Brayden Taivassalo (2:16.83). Hess’ 200 breast PB sits at 2:14.92 set in 2021.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
- Delia Lloyd – The 17-year-old Etobicoke product received 4 occasions for 16 & over women, setting new greatest instances within the 100 free (55.20) and 100 again (1:00.43) whereas additionally clocking 25.79 within the 50 free and a couple of:12.07 within the 200 again. Within the 100 again, Lloyd knocked two one-hundredths off her earlier greatest time, transferring as much as sixth all-time within the women’ 15-17 age group.
- Madison Kryger – Kryger received the 100 again (1:01.35) and 100 fly (1:03.25) within the women’ 15-year-old age class and added a trio of silver medals within the 50, 100 and 200 free. Within the 100 again, the Brock Niagara Aquatics product narrowly missed her lifetime better of 1:00.73 with a 1:00.77 prelim swim.
- Shona Branton – Branton, who was 4th on the Olympic Trials within the girls’s 100 breast, received that occasion in Toronto in a time of 1:07.89. The Western College swimmer set a PB of 1:06.59 in January.
- Jordi Vilchez – The 18-year-old member of the Barrie Trojans received the boys’ 17 & over 400 free (3:57.74), 1500 free (15:40.73) and 200 IM (2:05.54), and added a runner-up end within the 200 free behind Wigginton. Within the 1500 free, Vilchez dropped practically 25 seconds off his earlier greatest (16:05.40) and now ranks thirty first all-time within the boys’ 17-18 age group.
- Eric Ginzburg – Ramac Aquatic Membership’s Ginzburg had among the high swims of the meet based mostly on FINA factors with wins within the boys’ 17 & over 50 free (23.22), 100 free (51.37) and 100 fly (53.23), having set a PB of 53.21 within the 100 fly heats to rank sixteenth all-time in Canada.