Etobicoke’s Summer McIntosh has broken a number of records at Aquatic Championship in Japan that finishes this week.
Members of the 69-year-old Etobicoke Swim Club
keeps getting faster capturing more records at
the 2023 Summer Ontario Swimming Championships
and other meets.
Some members of the Etobicoke Swim Club. Courtesy of Club.
A record was broken in the women’s 200 medley relay
last month, where Etobicoke swimmers Delia
Lloyd, Victoria Edgar, Victoria Raymond
and Maya Bezanson combined for a
1:55.27 breaking the old record of 1:55.98 set by another Etobicoke relay in 2009.
Etobicoke was the home club of World
Champion Summer McIntosh, now 16, before
she left to train in Toronto and eventually
Florida.
McIntosh retained her world title in the women’s
200-metre butterfly final on July 25 at the World
Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
She finished in two minutes, 4.06 seconds — a
new Canadian and world junior record.
Speedster Ella Jansen, 17,
swam 4:40.65 in the 400 metres to become the
fastest girl at her age in Ontario’s history
Another Etobicoke speedster Ella Jansen, 17,
swam 4:40.65 in the 400 metres to become the
fastest girl at her age in Ontario’s history. That
swim broke a record previously set in 2013.
Jansen’s record came before a trip to Asia to
compete as part of Swimming Canada’s team for the 2023 Aquatics Championships
held last July 14 to 30.
Etobicoke swimmers Ella Jansen, Hanna Henderson and Ruslan Gaziev were selected
to represent Team Canada at the Championships in Japan.
Also members of Toronto’s RAMAC Aquatic Club combined to set a new Ontario
record in the men’s 200 free relay.
Swimmers Eric Ginzburg , Yichi Zhang, Reid Tichy and Dillon Fernando combined to
knock half-a-second off the old record set in 2018.
Ruslan Gaziev was among those selected
to represent Team Canada at the Championships in Japan.
And Madisyn Kryger, 14, from Brock
Niagara Aquatics, swam 1:02.21 in the 100
backstroke that knocked half-a-second off her
best time from March’s Canadian Trials and
breaks a provincial record.
Top Etobicoke Swim Club members Kevin
Zhang, Delia Lloyd, Ella Jansen, Elan Daley
and Victoria Raymond were selected to
represent Canada at the 2023 World Jr.
Swimming Championships being held
September 4 to 9 in Netanya, Israel.
Five of the World Jr. contenders are from
Etobicoke Swim Club and one from Toronto.
Canada will send 26 swimmers to the Isreali
tournament which will feature more than 600 promising young swimmers from more
than 100 countries.
Josh Liendo
from Markham, finished second in the 100-metre butterfly final in a time of 50.34
seconds. He is the first Black swimmer to capture a silver medal. Courtesy photo.
Knox, Emma O’Croinin, and Jade Hannah won
individual medals. Liendo won a silver medal and
set a new Canadian record at the World
Aquatics Championships in Japan.
The 20-year-old
from Markham, finished second in the 100-metre butterfly final in a time of 50.34
seconds. He is the first Black swimmer to capture a silver medal.
The Etobicoke Swim Club has a long and rich history of service to the Etobicoke
community. Since 1954 it has been training children and young adults in competitive
swimming with outstanding results. The club has produced many national, international
and Olympic swimmers and has been provincial and national champions many times
over. Today it has more than 270 swimmers competing for Etobicoke.