She also stood on the podium in the 200m backstroke and the women’s 4x100m medley relay, winning bronze in both. Masse successfully defended her 100m backstroke title at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, making her the first Canadian swimmer to ever win back-to-back gold medals in the same event. She added a bronze medal as a member of the mixed 4x100m medley relay and got close to the podium in the women’s 4x100m medley relay (4 th) and 200m backstroke (5 th). She captured gold in the 100m backstroke at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary by setting a world record time of 58.10 seconds. She also swam the leadoff backstroke leg for the 4x100m medley relay that set a national record in finishing fifth.Ī year later, Masse made history by becoming the first Canadian woman to win a world title in swimming. In her Olympic debut at Rio 2016, Masse won bronze in the 100m backstroke, setting a national record in the process. Masse was just the fourth woman to ever finish as runner-up in both backstroke events at the same Olympic Games. Canadian records were set in the two latter events. Three of those were won in her second Olympic appearance at Tokyo 2020 where she claimed silver in both the 100m and 200m backstroke events to go with a bronze in the 4x100m medley relay. GOLD COAST: Some swimmers have taped over their goggles and others will be hitting ice baths as they grapple with the challenges of an outdoor pool at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.Kylie Masse is a four-time Olympic medallist. Horton has a big programme at the Games, combining the 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle and the 4x200m freestyle relay. I think we will have ice baths at the pool and we've got some in the basement of the village as well so when we get back we can cool down." "It's just about managing my body temperature, trying to stay cool before I race and cooling down faster after heats," Horton said. Pale-skinned Horton is looking to cool his body temperature after he overheated during the 1,500m freestyle at last month's national selection trials in the Games pool. Masse broke an eight-year world record with 58.10 seconds in winning the world title in Budapest last year.Īnother concern is that the warm pool temperatures under the Gold Coast sun will affect some of the competitors, notably Australia's Olympic 400m freestyle champion Mack Horton. ![]() Seebohm is bidding for her third consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal in the 100m event, after winning in Delhi and Glasgow. ![]() I'm not going to go into my race with taped-up goggles, I'm just going in to do my best job." "We saw it at trials and we have the advantage that we have done it before and we just have to try our best. "We started taping our goggles so we could only see out the sides but we won't know what it's like until we're actually outside again," she said. Seebohm said she had worked on improving her peripheral vision in the last month using partially taped goggles. "A number of times you can be doing a really fast set or something then all of a sudden, wham, you hit the lane rope."Īustralian coaching staff have come up with some inventive solutions to help their swimmers at the picturesque pool. "I've practised a bit outside, we've been down in Florida and Arizona for training camps a bit this year because we knew the Games were here and they'd be outside. "We knew it was coming so I tried to swim outdoors as much as possible this year to kind of prepare myself," Masse said. Leading backstrokers Kylie Masse and Emily Seebohm have been working on ways to avoid veering into the lane ropes in the open-air pool, which gives them no overhead reference points.Ĭanada's world record holder Masse has been training outdoors in preparation, while Australia's triple world champion Seebohm has been swimming in semi-blacked out goggles in a bid to adjust.
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