Kylie Masse competes in the women's 100-metre backstroke during Canadian swimming trials in Toronto on Wednesday.
Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse has booked her ticket for the Paris Olympics. The four-time Olympic medallist won the women's 100-metre backstroke race in 57.94 seconds at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials.Kylie Masse competes in the women's 100-metre backstroke during Canadian swimming trials in Toronto on Wednesday. Canada's Kylie Masse admits she had some self-doubt with her swimming performances at times over the last year or two.
Masse, from LaSalle, Ont., won bronze in her Olympic debut in 2016. She earned her first world title a year later and set a world record at the same time. Masse, 28, raced like it in front of an adoring crowd at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. She was the only swimmer to record a sub-60 second time in the morning preliminary session.
"I'm so excited to see what Kylie can do and she made it so easy to be competitive and race beside her to try to do what I wanted to do today," she said.
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