Nova Scotia Swimmers Continue to Race at the 2017 RBC Canadian Junior Swimming Championships
Swim Nova Scotia – Toronto, ON– Halifax Trojan swimmers, Hanna Mountford and Madison Archer were Nova Scotia’s top swims during the second day of competition at the RBC Canadian Junior Swimming Championships. Mountford and Archer both swam in the consolation final of their respective events where Mountford finished twentieth in the women’s 100m Freestyle with a time of 1:01.28, and Archer finished nineteenth the 400m Individual Medley with a time of 5:10.01.
500 young swimmers from across Canada are competing at Toronto’s Pan Am Sports Centre. Five teams from across Nova Scotia are represented by 12 swimmers, who have all been named to Swim Nova Scotia’s 2017 Canada Games Swim Team.
Pool action continues daily through Sunday, with competition starting at 9:00am local time for preliminaries and 5:30pm local time for finals. The open water events start at 9am July 31st; race distances include 2.5km and 5km.
Results from Day Two:
Swimmer/Club |
Event |
Place/Time |
Hanna Mountford, Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club (HTAC) |
Women’s 13-14 100m Freestyle |
20th/1:01.28 |
Nicholas Bourbonniere, HTAC |
Men’s 14-16 400m Individual Medley |
25th/4:51.92 |
Madison Archer, HTAC |
Women’s 13-14 400m Individual Medley |
19th/5:10.01 |
Hanna Mountford, Madison Archer, Emma Burke, Isabelle Dearnaley, HTAC |
Women’s 13-17 800m Freestyle Relay |
13th/9:03.76 |
Hayden Bartoch, Halifax Wavecutters Aquatic Club (HWAC) |
Men’s 14-16 400m Individual Medley |
43rd/4:58.61 |
Lucas Seto, Dartmouth Crusaders Swim Club (DCSC) |
Men’s 14-16 100m Freestyle |
31st/55.58 |
Benjamin Mingo, Truro Centurions Swim Club (TCSC) |
Men’s 14-16 100m Freestyle |
41st/56.15 |
Live results: https://results.swimming.ca/2017_Juniors/
Live webcast (during finals): http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/canadian-junior-swimming-championships-live-stream-1.4220149
For more information contact:
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Bette El-Hawary
Executive Director| Swim Nova Scotia
5516 Spring Garden Rd. 4th Floor, Halifax N.S. B3J 1G6
902.425.5454 ext. 314 (o)|902.497.2088 (cell)|902.425.5606 (fax)
Email| swimming@sportnovascotia.ca
Web-page| www.swimnovascotia.com