Swimming Canada –Top Swims Continue for NS Swimmers at the Canadian Swimming Trials

Edmonton (AB)- Halifax Trojan swimmers Danial Murphy and Sarah Polley, along with Dartmouth Crusader Brett Liem earned themselves second swims during day four of competition at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Edmonton. 

Murphy finished 4^th in the Para Multi Class 50m Butterfly with a time of 52.30; teammate Sarah Polley finished 13^th in the Women’s 50m Freestyle in a 26.55 and 13^th in the Women’s 200m Backstroke with a time of 2:17.06.

Dartmouth Crusader swimmer Brett Liem finished 17^th in the 50m Freestyle with a time of 23.73.

This is Swimming Canada’s flagship event of this year’s swimming season, with Canada’s best swimmers racing to represent the country at the Pan Pacific Championships this summer in Tokyo and the Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships in Cairns, Australia.

In total, approximately 400 swimmers from 105 clubs are competing from across Canada with visiting competitors from France, Peru, Thailand, Singapore, Scotland and the United States.

Prelims begin at 10:00am and finals begin at 6:00pm local time daily. Competition wraps up tomorrow at the Kinsmen Sports Centre.

Live Results are now available

Live Streaming broadcasted by CBC

For more information, please contact:

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