Oops he did it again! Swimmer Bielby double golden
By Earl Zukerman, ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ & Michel BĂ©langer, CIS
VANCOUVER – ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ rookie Steven Bielby of Pointe Claire, Que., won
his second gold medal in as many days at the CIS swim championships
in Vancouver, Friday.
Bielby, a 19-year-old electrical engineering freshman, captured the
400-metre freestyle in three minutes, 49.73 seconds, destroying
both the ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ record (3:55.89) set by Sebastian Paddington in
1996 and the Quebec university record (3:52.98), held since 2001 by
Laval’s Andre Couturier.
Bielby, who won the 400 IM on Thursday, became just the third male
swimmer in ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ history to win a pair of individual gold medals
at a CIS championship meet. Francois Castonguay managed to
accomplish that feat on two occasions, winning the 200 and 400 IM
in both 2005 and 2006. Alexandre Pichette also pulled it off in
2003, winning the 50 and 100 backstrokes. No ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ male has ever
earned triple golden status at the Nationals.
Three more short-course Canadian records – and eight championship
marks – were set during the second night of competition at the UBC
Aquatic Centre with Thunderbird star and 2008 Olympian Annamay
Pierse of Edmonton narrowly missing a world record in the women’s
200-metre breaststroke.
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In the team standings, the Redmen are ranked 11th of 20 teams,
while the Martlets are 16th on the women’s side. Calgary Dinos lead
the women’s competition with 534 points and are getting closer to
their first-ever CIS title, while UBC tops the men’s race with 471.
The reigning national champion Dinos are second on the men’s side
with 424 points while the T-Bird women, who have won a record 11
straight CIS crowns, are second with 382. Toronto ranks third in
both team races.
Pierse continued her dazzling display in the pool this weekend,
chopping more than three seconds off her Canadian record with a
winning time of 2:18.59, just missing Leisel Jones world standard
of 2:17.75. It was her second senior national mark of the meet as
she notched a world-class time of 1:05.12 in the women’s 100
breaststroke Thursday night and led the T-Birds to podium sweeps in
both breaststroke events.
“This is awesome. I didn’t want to talk about any record too much
before the race,” said Pierse. “I just wanted to go in and swim my
own race without any extra pressure. I’m very happy.”
Calgary’s Katy Murdoch (Calgary) got the evening off on the right
foot with a Canadian record in the women’s 100 backstroke with a
time of 58.67, bettering her own record of 59.08 she set in the
morning preliminaries. Dino teammate Hanna Kubas touched the wall
in second at 59.11, marking the first time in history that two
Canadian women have gone under 1:00 in the same 100
backstroke.
“I can’t really explain what happened,” said Murdoch. “Coming into
the meet, I really wanted to go under 59 but this definitely
surpasses my goal. It’s amazing.”
The Dino quartet of Murdoch, Breanna Hendriks (Cochrane, Alta.),
Kevyn Peterson (Salmon Arm, B.C.) and freshman and 2008 Olympian
Erica Morningstar (Regina) set the final national record of the
evening with a gold-medal performance of 7:55.91 in the women’s 4 x
200 freestyle relay, bettering the mark of 7:58.12 set in December
of 2008 by a foursome comprised of Hendriks, Peterson, Morningstar
and Kubas.
Morningstar and Hendriks each tallied individual golds earlier in
the evening. Morningstar took gold in the women’s 50 freestyle with
a CIS championship record of 25.17 while Hendriks just missed a
meet record with a 4:08.02 first-place result in the 400
freestyle.
One of the most highly touted rivalries of the weekend continued to
deliver high drama as 2008 Olympic finalist Mike Brown (Perth,
Ont.) from Calgary narrowly out-touched UBC’s Scott Dickens
(Ancaster, Ont.), a 2004 Olympian, 2:07.58 to 2:08.05 in the men’s
200 breaststroke after Dickens beat Brown in the 100 breast
Thursday night. Both times were well under the second oldest male
CIS championship record as Jon Cleveland’s time of 2:09.69 had
stood for 19 years.
UBC standout Callum Ng (Vancouver) collected his fourth gold of the
meet, third individual, with a CIS championship record of 52.24,
missing a national mark by just sixth one-hundredths of a second.
The victory was his fourth in a row in the 100 back and the
fifth-year won a combined nine CIS golds and one silver in the 50
and 100 backstrokes in his UBC career. Ng also added a silver medal
in the men’s 200 butterfly (1:58.42) Friday night finishing behind
U of T rookie Zack Chetrat of Oakville, Ont. (1:55.99).
Olympian Colin Russell (Burlington, Ont.), Chetrat’s teammate at U
of T, continued his impressive meet, improving his CIS championship
record in the 50 free to 22.03 after setting the mark at 22.37
during the morning preliminaries.
UQTR’s Jennifer Carroll (Montreal) was also in top form, notching
the career sweep in the women’s 50 butterfly with her fifth
straight CIS title, winning this evening in a meet record time of
26.87.
Laval’s Pamela Filiatrault-Veilleux earned the butterfly double
with a victory in the 200-metre event (2:11.37) to add to her gold
from the 100 metre Thursday.
Other winners on the men’s side Friday evening were Laval’s Nicolas
Murray (Matane, Que.) in the 50 butterfly (24.16) and the UBC
Thunderbirds who triumphed in the men’s 4 x 200 freestyle relay
with a time of 7:12.09 as they passed U of T for the lead on the
final length of the race.
The three-day CIS championships wrap up Saturday with prelims
starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time and finals at 6 p.m.
Pacific.
DAY 2 TEAM STANDINGS
Women
1. Calgary, 534 points
2. UBC, 382
3. Toronto, 267
4. Laval, 191.5
5. Western Ontario, 176
6. Victoria, 129
7. Dalhousie, 123.5
8. Alberta, 118
9. Guelph, 99
10. Manitoba, 59
11. McMaster, 52.5
12. UQTR, 50
13. Brock, 28
T14. Regina, 26
T14. Wilfrid Laurier, 26
16. ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ, 21
17. Ottawa, 20
18. Montreal, 6
19. UQAM, 2.5
20. UNB, 2
Men
1. UBC, 471 points
2. Calgary, 424 points
3. Toronto, 290
4. Laval, 258
5. Montreal, 144
6. Dalhousie, 118
7. Alberta, 106
8. Victoria, 105
9. Guelph, 79
10. Waterloo, 75
11. ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ, 70
12. Ottawa, 46
13. Western Ontario, 43
14. McMaster, 42
15. Manitoba, 22
T16. Memorial, 8
T16. Laurentian, 8
T18. Sherbrooke, 7
T18. Lethbridge, 7
DAY 2 INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS (Friday)
W 100m Back
1. Katy Murdoch, Calgary, 58.67 (Canadian record / CIS championship
record)
2. Hanna Kubas, Calgary, 59.11
3. Andrea Jurenovskis, Toronto, 1:00.71
M 100m Back
1. Callum Ng, UBC, 52.24 (CIS championship record)
2. Dan Langlois, Calgary, 54.15
3. Cam Cummings, Toronto, 54.52
W 50m Fly
1. Jennifer Carroll, UQTR, 26.87 (CIS championship record)
2. Chantique Payne, Guelph, 27.74
3. Sasha Theron, Toronto, 27.76
M 50m Fly
1. Nicolas Murray, Laval, 24.16
2. Kelly Aspinall, Calgary, 24.25
3. Alexander Johnson, UBC, 24.37
W 400m Free
1. Breanna Hendriks, Calgary, 4:08.02
2. Julianne Brown, Calgary, 4:10.87
3. Kevyn Peterson, Calgary, 4:12.65
M 400m Free
1. Steven Bielby, ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ, 3:49.73
2. Colin Miazga, Calgary, 3:51.87
3. David Woodman, Calgary, 3:54.44
W 200m Breast
1. Annamay Pierse, UBC, 2:18.59 (Canadian record / CIS championship
record)
2. Martha McCabe, UBC, 2:22.44
3. Haylee Johnson, UBC, 2:25.18
M 200m Breast
1. Mike Brown, Calgary, 2:07.58 (CIS championship record)
2. Scott Dickens, UBC, 2:08.05
3. Marco Monaco, Toronto, 2:12.69
W 50m Free
1. Erica Morningstar, Calgary, 25.17 (CIS championship
record)
2. Marie-Pier Ratelle, Laval, 25.28
3. Seanna Mitchell, Calgary, 25.61
M 50m Free
1. Colin Russell, Toronto, 22.03 (CIS championship record)
2. Ryan Gow, Calgary, 22.42
3. Tommy Gossland, UBC, 22.51
W 200m Fly
1. Pamela Filiatrault-Veilleux, Laval, 2:11.37
2. MacKenzie Downing, Victoria, 2:11.41
3. Jessica Johnson, Calgary, 2:15.23
M 200m Fly
1. Zack Chetrat, Toronto, 1:55.99
2. Callum Ng, UBC, 1:58.42
3. Jordan Hartney, UBC, 1:58.50
W 4 x 200m Free Relay
1. Calgary, 7:55.91 (Canadian record / CIS championship
record)
(Katy Murdoch, Breanna Hendriks, Kevyn Peterson, Erica
Morningstar)
2. Western Ontario, 8:10.46
(Alyssa Molenaar, Hayley Nell, Lenore Chesworth, Brittany
Cooper)
3. Toronto, 8:12.15
(Andrea Jurenovskis, Heather Maitland, Kristin McLlroy, Melanie
Davis)
M 4 x 200m Free Relay
1. UBC, 7:12.09
(Scott Dickens, Rory Biskupski, Matt Hawes, Duncan Furrer)
2. Toronto, 7:12.31
(Zack Chetrat, Colin Russell, Curtis Samuel, Cam Cummings)
3. Laval, 7:24.94
(Jordan Szoo, Bruno Langlois, Nicolas Murray, Adam Szoo)
DAY 1 INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS (Thursday)
Women’s 200-meter Free
1. Erica Morningstar, Calgary, 1:56.11 (Canadian record / CIS
championship record)
2. Breanna Hendriks, Calgary, 1:56.95
3. Katy Murdoch, Calgary, 1:58.63
Men’s 200m Free
1. Colin Russell, Toronto, 1:43.31 (Canadian record / CIS
championship record)
2. Rory Biskupski, UBC, 1:46.77
3. Colin Miazga, Calgary, 1:47.07
W 50m Back
1. Hanna Kubas, Calgary, 27.48 (CIS championship record)
2. Katy Murdoch, Calgary, 28.10
3. Jennifer Carroll, UQTR, 28.14
M 50m Back
1. Callum Ng, UBC, 24.49
2. Dan Langlois, Calgary, 24.92
3. Kelly Aspinall, Calgary, 25.02
W 100m Breast
1. Annamay Pierse, UBC, 1:05.16 (Canadian record / CIS championship
record)
2. Haylee Johnson, UBC, 1:07.34
3. Martha McCabe, UBC, 1:08.12
M 100m Breast
1. Scott Dickens, UBC, 59.34 (Ties Canadian record / New CIS
championship record)
2. Mike Brown, Calgary, 59.74
3. Kevin Deret, Laval, 1:00.86
W 100m Fly
1. Pamela Filiatrault-Veilleux, Laval, 59.83
2. MacKenzie Downing, Victoria, 1:00.42
3. Sasha Theron, Toronto, 1:00.79
M 100m Fly
1. Callum Ng, UBC, 52.74
2. Rory Biskupski, UBC, 53.51
3. Zack Chetrat, Toronto, 54.19
W 400m IM
1. Hanna Pierse, UBC, 4:41.58
2. Tara Ivanitz, UBC, 4:46.55
3. Jessica Johnson, Calgary, 4:47.29
M 400m IM
1. Steven Bielby, ÎŰÎ۲ÝÝ®ĘÓƵ, 4:11.42
2. Jordan Hartney, UBC, 4:15.81
3. Matt Hawes, UBC, 4:19.05
W 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. Calgary, 3:38.74 (Canadian record / CIS championship
record)
(Erica Morningstar, Katy Murdoch, Seanna Mitchell, Breanna
Hendriks)
2. Toronto, 3:45.85
(Sasha Theron, Andrea Jurenovskis, Heather Maitland, Kristin
McLlroy)
3. Western Ontario, 3:46.78
(Alyssa Molenaar, Hayley Nell, Lenore Chesworth, Brittany
Cooper)
M 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. UBC, 3:15.42 (Canadian record / CIS championship record)
(Scott Dickens, Rory Biskupski, Callum Ng, Tommy Gossland)
2. Calgary, 3:16.79
(Kelly Aspinall, Colin Miazga, Ryan Gow, David Woodman)
3. Toronto, 3:18.02
(Zack Chetrat, Colin Russell, Curtis Samuel, Cam Cummings)
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