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Taylor brings McMaster back to CIS swim podium

February 22nd, 2010

McMaster freshman Sarah Taylor (Stittsville) captured a silver medal in the 50m Fly at the 2010 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Swim championships.
Taylor had a time of 27.47 on Friday (Feb.190.

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Category: Swimming · University

Van Bellen raises bar with age-group swim record

August 27th, 2009

Ontario swimmers Tera Van Beilen of Oakville and Jacqueline Keire of Toronto broke national age group swimming records at the Canada Games.
In the women’s 200-metre breaststroke, Van Beilen clocked two minutes and 24.00 seconds for the victory on Wednesday (Aug. 26). That eclipsed the previous national record in the 15-17 age group category of 2:25.94 [...]

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Category: Swimming

The family that bikes, runs and swims together, wins together

June 16th, 2009

Hello, my name is Cadence. Cadence means rhythm and it is a term sometimes used in cycling and swimming. My name was chosen in some ways because of my parents’ passion for these sports, and they have inspired me to be passionate about sports too.
Through my parents (Melanie Price and William Johnson), I have [...]

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Category: Cycling · Features · Swimming · Track

Oakville swimmers help Canada to podium at junior Pan Pacific meet

January 13th, 2009

GUAM – Zsofia Balazs of Toronto took fifth spot Monday (Jan. 12) in the women’s 10 kilometre open water race to cap an impressive performance for Canada’s national team at the Junior Pan Pacific swimming championships.
In the first four days in the pool, Canada collected 12 medals (one gold, three silver and eight bronze) after [...]

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Category: Swimming

Russell swims to bronze for Canada at junior meet

January 8th, 2009

GUAM – Oakville’s Sinead Russell won a bronze medal for one of two Canadian podium finishes Thursday at the Junior Pan Pacific swimming championships. Hassaan Abdel-Khalik of Mississauga won gold in the men’s 200-metre freestyle at the opening of the meet.
Competing in the women’s 100 backstroke, Russell clocked 1:02.32 for the bronze finishing behind Shiho [...]

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Category: Swimming