Fresh from a highly successful FINA Artistic Swimming World Series (ASWS) Super Final in Barcelona, Spain, Canada’s National Artistic Swimming team has moved on to Budapest, Hungary to continue training for the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo. Canada won 7 medals [...]
Day 1 - Gold for Simoneau in Solo Technical and bronze in Team Technical Canada started off the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series (ASWS) Super Final by winning the bronze medal in the first event, the Team Technical. The Super Final, [...]
On Wednesday, Canada Artistic Swimming and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the eight artistic swimmers nominated to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Canada will be sending an experienced squad to Tokyo, with seven athletes returning from the Lima 2019 [...]
19 athletes to start training full-time in Montréal in September Canada Artistic Swimming is proud to announce the athletes who will form the 2020-2021 Olympic Training Group scheduled to start training full-time in September at Montreal’s Institut National [...]
Nearly 30 years have passed since Vancouver’s Karin Larsen last travelled to South Korea. In 1988, she marched proudly in the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games, the alternate for the synchronized swimming duet, as her teammate Carolyn Waldo proudly [...]
At the age of seven and a half, Jacinthe Taillon drew a picture of herself standing on a podium with the Olympic flame in her hand. She presented it to her mother and told her that she was going to go [...]
Two members of Synchro Canada’s staff will be heading to PyeongChang, South Korea to take part in the Olympic Winter Games. Both will be volunteering with the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) in different capacities. Julie Healy, Synchro Canada’s Chief Sport Officer [...]
Canada’s two synchronized swimmers, Jacqueline Simoneau, 19, from Montreal, QC, and Karine Thomas, 27, from Gatineau, QC, completed their Olympic competition with a powerful performance to finish in 7th place. After posting a Personal Best score yesterday in the Technical Routine, the duo were [...]
Montreal’s Jacqueline Simoneau, 19, and Gatineau’s Karine Thomas, 27, have qualified for the finals of the Olympic Synchronized Swimming Duet competition at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio, Brazil. Starting early, swimming 6th of 24 teams, the duo produced a very strong performance today, according to Head [...]
Montreal’s Jacqueline Simoneau, 19 and Gatineau’s Karine Thomas, 27, began their Olympic Synchronized Duet competition today in Rio, Brazil with the Free Routine Preliminary. In the first round of the three-stage competition, the duo exhibited their trademark power, passion and creativity while swimming their ‘Heartbreak’ routine. [...]
