Kylie mass

Kylie mass
Personal information
Surname:	Kylie mass
Nation:	Canada
Swimming style (s) :	move
Birthday:	18th January 1996 (age 24)
Place of birth:	LaSalle , Ontario
Size:	1.73 m
Medal table

Kylie Masse (born January 18, 1996 in LaSalle , Ontario ) is a Canadian swimmer who specializes primarily in backstroke swimming. She is the 100 meters back world champion in 2017 and 2019. At times she also held the world record over this distance.

Career

Kylie Masse grew up with her two siblings and was active in hockey until she switched to swimming at the age of 12.

At the 2015 Summer Universiade , Masse won the 100m back gold medal and was CIS Swimmer of the Year 2015/16 when she swam at the University of Toronto , where she has been studying movement science since 2014 .

In the Canadian Trials , a national competition that plays an important role in the composition of the Olympic squad, Mass improved the Canadian 100m back record twice in 2016, first to 59.17 s in a preroll and finally to 59.06 s in the final. Masse qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics .

2016 Summer Olympics

In Rio de Janeiro , she won the bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics with a new Canadian record when she struck at the same time as the Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui .

World record at the 2017 World Swimming Championships

At the 2017 World Championships in Budapest , Kylie Masse won the gold medal over 100 m back with a new world record. She swam the 100 m in 58.10 s and improved the record, which has been held by Briton Gemma Spofforth since 2009 , by two hundredths of a second. With her title in Budapest, Masse became the first Canadian female swimmer to win a world title. In July 2018, the world record of 58.00 s was further improved by the American Kathleen Baker .

At the Pan Pacific Championships , Kylie Masse won the gold medal with 58.61 seconds in August 2018.

In February 2020, in Orlando, Kylie Masse won the 100 m back in 59.74 s and set the fourth fastest time in the world this year.

Web links

• Profile on Team Canada (English speaking)
• Kylie Masse on swimswam.com (English speaking)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Lohn: Kylie Masse Drops Canadian Mark in 100 Back (59.06); USA's Ryan Murphy Pops 52.57 . Swim vortex. April 7, 2016. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 12, 2016. 
2. ↑ Kylie Masse - 2014-15 Women's Swimming . University of Toronto Varsity Blues . Retrieved April 16, 2016.
3. ↑ Kylie Mass . Swim Canada . Retrieved April 12, 2016.
4. ↑ How world champion swimmer Kylie Masse grew up on the ice (February 21, 2020)
5. ^ Paula Nichols: Masse sets national record as five more swimmers qualify for Rio 2016 , Canadian Olympic Committee . April 7, 2016. 
6. ↑ Olympic Team Nominated for Rio 2016 . Swimming Canada. April 10, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
7. ↑ Gregory Strong: Canadian swimming trials: Kylie Masse breaks 2 national marks, qualifies for Rio , CBC Sports . April 6, 2016. 
8. ↑ Detailed results: Women Backstroke 100 , fina.org
9. ↑ Swimming World Championships - Peaty and Masse set world records . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on July 26, 2017]).
10. ↑ Canada's Kylie Masse breaks world record in historic swim feat. CBC Sports, accessed July 26, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse captures gold at Pan Pacific Championships ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 10, 2018) 
12. ↑ FLORIDA SWIMMING OT QUALIFIER (February 17, 2020)