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301:: The annual competition which results in the selection of the Senior National and Junior National Canadian teams. During the Olympic year this competition will determine the selection for the Canadian Olympic team. This also requires time standards to be met in order to compete and is typically swam long course as well. During an Olympic year the top two people who qualify for FINA A time standards will make the Olympic Team and those events which qualify for a relay (100, 200 Free) will take the top four swimmers to the Games. 170: 128: 317:: In addition to national championship competitions, Swimming Canada pairs with local organizing committees to run a regional open meet. This meet is for Eastern Canadian clubs and swimmers where specific time standards are established for that area. These meets offer a competitive environment to prepare for trials, exposure to more elite competitions and provides an opportunity to prepare for larger competitions later in the year. 22: 295:: A competition divided by gender, for swimmers 18 years and younger. Created for athletes striving to reach the elite-level. This is typically a season-ending, long course (50M) competition that occurs annually at the end of July/beginning of August. Similar to the national competition, swimmers need to qualify for time standards established for their age and that apply to that year of competition. 323:: Swimming Canada pairs with local organizing committees to run two regional open meets. This meet is for Western Canadian clubs and swimmers who have their own individual standards as well. These meets offer a competitive environment to prepare for trials, be exposed to more elite competitions and prepare for larger competitions later in the year. 332:
The national team as well as the junior national team is selected every year at Swimming Canada's Trials competition, and every four years those members form the Olympic team. Swimmers who win the meet and are able to achieve qualifying times set by FINA are then selected for the national team.
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Swimming Canada oversees the management of all swim programs throughout the nation and provides the foundation for beginner-level athletes to train towards the elite level, with the chance to attend world championships and the
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in Moscow, due to a government boycott. Over the past 100 years, Canadian swimmers have earned over 40 medals at the Olympic games, as well as many other successes through World Championship competitions.
283:: Senior national championship swim meet. Swimmers may range from Olympic athletes to rising Olympic potential who have all qualified for the national time standards (50M) established for that year. 341:
Since 2001 Swimming Canada has honoured "the greatest Canadian swimmers of all time", and some coaches and builders, by induction into its Circle of Excellence.
264:, the Canadian women's swim team earned six out of the 22 medals that Team Canada won during the Games. Four of the six medals were earned by 16 year-old 43: 36: 761: 623: 276:
Swimming Canada works with local club teams, university teams and national select teams, as well as community members to make annual events possible.
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The Canadian Amateur Swimming Association was established in 1909, after the preliminary appearance of a Canadian swimmer at the London
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won Canada's first two Olympic swimming medals and set a world record in the 1500 meter freestyle.
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The Canadian Olympic team has brought swimmers to each Olympic Games, except for the
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became the first Canadian to win three swimming medals at the Mexico
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Communications, Government of Canada; Canadian Heritage.
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Swimming (Amateur)
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100m freestyle
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1980 Summer Olympics
2016 Summer Olympics
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