2011 Swimming World Championship Trials

The Canadian Spring Nationals are finally here! I am currently in Victoria getting ready for the big meet of the spring that will feature Canada’s best try compete for a chance to represent Canada this summer at the 2011 FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China. Some breaststrokers from Cal swimming will be coming up to swim against us also to get their FINA standards to qualify for their countries including Sean Mahoney, Damir Dugonjic, Martti Aljand, and Martin Liivamagi. Qualifying is pretty simple. If you win an event you qualify, if you get 2nd and are under the FINA ‘A’ standard, you will also make the team.

Competition will run from Wednesday, March 30th to Saturday, April 2nd at the Saannich Commonwealth Place. Preliminary sessions start at 10am, and Finals start at 6pm. I will be swimming all the breaststroke events and 200 IM. Here is my schedule below:

Wednesday: 200 Breast
Thursday: 100 Breast
Friday: 50 Breast
Saturday: 200 IM, 400 Medley Relay

Phych Sheet available here:

I will update this post when I find a better results link, but Swimming Canada’s event page with all the information can be found here:

CBC coverage will air on Saturday, April 2nd from 4 to 6pm and Saturday April 9th 12-1pm EST. In addition to their television broadcast, CBC will partner with Swimming Canada in providing a live web stream of finals on their website at http://www.cbc.ca