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At eleven, Sharon started swimming for Fort Wayne's Club Olympia in Fort Wayne, Indiana, coached by Don Carter, and then by her Olympic trainer, and world-renowned Coach Steven Hunyadfi. By 16, prepping for the Olympics, Sharon would practice up to four hours a day, and swim up to 13,000 yards or seven miles a day. [ 1 ]
Hannah Margaret McNair "Maggie" Mac Neil [note 1] OLY, MSc (born 26 February 2000) is a former Canadian competitive swimmer. [2] [1] A 100 metre butterfly event specialist, she is the 2020 Olympic champion, 2019 World (LC) champion, two-time World (SC) champion (2021, 2022), 2022 Commonwealth champion, and 2023 Pan American champion. [3]
Penelope Oleksiak (born June 13, 2000) is a Canadian competitive swimmer.Nicknamed "Magic Penny", she is one of her country's most decorated Olympians.Oleksiak rose to fame during the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she became the first Canadian to win four medals in the same Summer Games, and the country's youngest Olympic champion with her gold medal win in the 100 m freestyle.
Javier Carlos Acevedo (born 28 January 1998) is a Canadian competitive swimmer.He competes primarily in the backstroke events. Acevedo won two bronze medals at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships as part of both the mixed 4×100 m freestyle relay and the 4×100 m mixed medley relay.
In early March 2003, improving his team during his tenure as coach, Vogel was honored as Coach of the Year at a state-wide Maine YMCA swim meet and his swimmer Eric Palmer was named swimmer of the year. [21] Nostalgic for home, from around 2005-2014, Vogel coached Fort Wayne Aquatics in his home town.
The Aquatic Federation of Canada (AFC) (in French: Fédération aquatique du Canada, FAC) is a federation of the Olympic, Aquatics federations of Canada: Diving Canada, Canada Artistic Swimming, Swimming Canada, and Water Polo Canada. [2]
He was the only member of the team to swim in both the heats and the final. This was the first men's relay medal for Canada at a major event since the 2015 Pan American Games, and the first at the Commonwealth Games since 2006. [11] Knox also reached the finals of the 100 m butterfly and the 200 m medley, placing fourth in the latter. [12]
Sanchez made her debut in major international competition in 2017, as part of the Canadian team for the 2017 World Junior Swimming Championships team in Indianapolis.She won two individual medals, a silver in the 200 m individual medley and bronze in the 100 m freestyle, and was part of a Canadian sweep of the gold medals in the women's relay events, taking gold in the 4x100 m and 4x200 ...