Canada opened the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships with five medals on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saskatoon’s Blake Tierney won gold in the men’s 100-metre backstroke, topping the field with a time of 53.18 seconds, 0.19 seconds ahead of American Will Modglin.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh claimed silver in the women’s 200-metre freestyle, touching in 1:53.86.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lani Pallister of Australia finished first with a time of 1:53.67 and New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather came in third at 1:55.05.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old three-time Olympic champion from Toronto is building toward a goal of five individual gold medals at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n
Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., captured three bronze medals on Wednesday, including third-place finishes in both the women’s 50-metre butterfly and 100-metre backstroke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four-time Olympic medallist posted a time of 25.23 seconds in the butterfly, 0.58 seconds behind American Gretchen Walsh, who captured gold with a Pan Pacs record of 24.65.<\/p>\n
Ruck then helped the Canadians close out the first day of competition with another bronze in the 4×100-metre medley relay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her team, with Ingrid Wilm, Oliver Dawson and Finlay Knox, finished in 3:43.22, behind the first-place Americans and second-place Australians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another Canadian crew, composed of Tierney, Alexanne Lepage, Mary-Sophie Harvey and Ruslan Gaziev, came in fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The competition continues Thursday with McIntosh swimming in the 400-metre individual medley, while Ruck races the 100-metre freestyle and Tierney takes on the 50-metre backstroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada opened the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships with five medals on Wednesday.\u00a0 Saskatoon’s Blake Tierney won gold in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-856277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}