TORONTO — For Penny Oleksiak, Sunday's race served as good practice for her hopes to make another event. The Toronto native captured the women's 50-metre freestyle event at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials in a personal-best time of 25.06 seconds.
TORONTO — For Penny Oleksiak, Sunday's race served as good practice for her hopes to make another event.
Each country can enter a maximum of two athletes per individual event with the deadline to go under the qualifying time at an approved World Aquatics competition being June 23. Athletes with the Olympic consideration times will be invited to compete only if the overall quota of 852 athletes hasn't been reached after accounting for athletes qualified by way of the Olympic qualifying time, relays, and universality.
The 17-year-old Toronto sensation finished with a time of two minutes 7.06 seconds to lead a quartet of swimmers who stopped the clock under the Olympic qualifying time. Sydney Pickrem placed second at 2:07.68. In the men's 100 butterfly, Josh Liendo set the field on fire with a second straight Canadian record on the day.
It's the third event the 21-year-old Liendo — who earned silver at the 2023 world championships in the 100 butterfly — has qualified himself for the Paris Games. He did so on Saturday in the 50 freestyle and on Thursday in the 100 freestyle.
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