Congratulations Canada: Pan Pacs 2010

From EVERYONE back home - We are so PROUD!

GO - CANADA - GO

TOTAL MEDAL COUNT FOR TEAM CANADA:

GOLD: 2

SILVER: 2 

BRONZE: 6

2010 Pan Pacific Championships Videos:

Warren Barnes - Men's 200 Breaststroke B-Final - 2010 Pan Pacific Championships

Warren Barnes - 50 Breaststroke B-Final - 2010 Pan Pacific Championships

Unfortunately Swim Network did not post the Men's 100 Breaststroke B-Final

PAN PACS Men's 200 Breaststroke:

Warren Barnes - Men's 200 Breaststroke

Day 4 of the Pan Pacific Championships are underway and Warren Barnes will be competing in his last event of the meet: the Men's 200 Breaststroke.

RESULTS:
Prelims: 2:16.21 (12th)
Finals: 2:17.05 (14th)

Congratulations to Warren on an amazing meet at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California. Warren earned second swims in the 50, 100 and 200 Breaststroke events for Team Canada. From everyone back home in Canada - we are so proud of you! Team Canada will stay in Irvine on Sunday for the Men and Women's 10k Open Water Events, and then be returning to Canada on Monday. Canada earned a 4th Place Finish at the Pan Pacific Championships.  Behind Japan, Australia, and the United States. Great meet Canada!

Canadians Ready to Charge:

Canadians ready to charge the podium at Pan Pacific Championships:

August 20, 2010
Irvine, California- Eleven Canadian Swimmers have advanced to the championship finals today at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine California.

Victoria's Ryan Cochrane secured a spot in the Men's 400 freestyle event A final, swimming a solid 3:49.69 in the morning qualifying round.

"I think this morning's swim was all about making a final," said the Pan Pacific Champion, Ryan Cochrane. "It was my only morning swim and I would of liked to get closer to my best time, but a lane in the finals is all I needed."

Cochrane, who made history for Canada on the first night of competition winning a gold in the 1500 meter freestyle. It had been over ninety years since a Canadian swimmer had won a medal in that event at a major international competition, dating back o George Hodgson, Canada's first ever-Olympic medalist.

"It was great to get a day off after the 1500 free simply to get both a mental and physical break and get the energy level back up to swim fast in the morning," added Cochrane.

Alexa Komarnycky of Victoria and Barbra Jardin of Montreal will tae part in the Women's 400 freestyle championships final tonight. Komarnycky had the fastest qualifying time for Canada while Jardin shaved off two and a half seconds off her personal best this year, after a bronze medal performance last night in the women's 4x200 relay.

The women's 100 meter butterfly saw Katherine Savard and Audry Locroix, both from Point-Rouge, QC, advancing in the championships final. Savard, a first timer on the senior national team, clocked a 58.84, almost a second off her personal best.

"I'm really proud of my race this morning," said 16-year-old Savard. "I put a lot of effort in improving my start and turn over the past few days at it really paid off."

Rookie Genevieve Cantin of Saguenay, QC will dive into her first international final, swimming her specialty event, the 200-meter backstroke. Cantin finished with a 2:10.84 this morning lowering her personal best mark by close to a second.

Tobias Oriwol of Toronto and Charles Francis of Montreal will both advance to the A final of the men's 200 meter backstroke. Chelsey Salli of Langley and Ashley McGregor of Pointe Claire, as well as Scott Dickens of Vancouver will race the 50-meter breaststroke A final.

Consolation finalists for Canada are Samantha Cheverton of Point Claire in the 400 freestyle, Hassaan Abdel-Khalik of Mississauga in the 400 freestyle, Mackenzie Downing of Whitehorse in the 100 butterfly, Joe Bartoch of London in the 100 butterfly, Lauren Lavigna of Vancouver and Dominique Bouchard in the 200 backstroke, Matthew Swanston of Newmarket in the 200 backstroke, Tianna Rissling and Warren Banres in the 50 breaststroke.

Full results for this morning's preliminary session are available at:
www.star-meets.org/results/PanPacs/2010/

-Article from Swim Canada

PAN PACS Men's 50 Breaststroke:

Warren Barnes - Men's 50 Breaststroke Prelims

GO CANADA GO - its been an amazing week!

Day 3 of competition at the Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California for Warren Barnes and the rest of Team Canada.

Warren will be competing in the Men's 50 Breaststroke this mornings prelims & evening competition. His final event will be tomorrow in the Men's 200 Breaststroke.

Evening Coverage: Live Feed for the evening coverage continues tonight as Warren will be in the B-Final of the Men's 50 Breaststroke. Competition begins at 9:00pm EST at www.swimnetwork.com and for even more coverage visit the USA Swimming website for more details regarding the competition. For all the pictures of Warren in the Men's 50 Breaststroke click at the bottom of this post to "Read More"

RESULTS:
Prelims: 28.23 - 16th
B-Finals: 28.33 - 13th - Congrats Warren!


Screenshots from the B-Final of the Men's 50 Breaststroke:

Marching out for the Men's 50 Breaststroke &
sporting the Canadian Mittens!

Screenshots from Men's 100 Breaststroke:

B-Final Men's 100 Breaststroke at Pan Pacific Games

A very special THANK YOU to my friend Carly for these screenshots of the Men's 100 Breaststroke from the B-Final at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California. There are even more images below so click on the "Read more" for the rest!

Pictures from Men's 100 Breaststroke:

Warren Barnes - Behind the block before the Men's 100 Breaststroke
Prelims - Heat 3 - Lane 1

Warren Barnes coming home in Men's 100 Breaststroke Prelims

Warren Barnes - 100 Breastroke Prelims - 1:02.18 LCM

A very special THANK YOU to my good friend Cindy for these amazing pictures from Pan Pacs - there are even more images are available below from the B-Final of the Men's 100 Breaststroke and there will be more to come - GO CANADA!

2010 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS:

The Pan Pacific Championships are underway in Irvine, California. Team Canada had an amazing performance last night in the Men's 1500m Freestyle with Ryan Cochrane winning GOLD for CANADA! We are all very proud! Team Canada is also sporting the Canadian Winter Olympic Mittens at the meet, so look for them during Finals!

Today Warren competed in the Men's 100m Breaststroke:
PRELIMS: 1:02.18 - 14th
B-FINALS: 1:02.13 - 12th

CHEER WARREN & THE REST OF TEAM CANADA ON TONIGHT!!! All results can be followed on the Live Feed (through Swim Network) listed below. Television broadcasts will be occurring on Universal Sports and NBC this weekend so check your local listings.

This is a very exciting time for Warren and the rest of TEAM CANADA- We LOVE YOU!

ALL THINGS PAN PACS:
LIVE FEED
Results
TV Broadcast Schedule
Universal Sports Coverage
Team Canada Roster

Behind the Scenes with Team Canada:

VIDEO - Behind the scenes from Victoria as Team Canada prepared for the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships. Video courtesy of SwimCan WebTV and Swim Canada.  For even more videos, photos and behind the scenes visit Swim Canada on Facebook

Pan Pac Championships Team en route to Irvine

2010 Canadian Pan Pacific Team in Victoria, BC

August 10, 2010
LOS ANGELES - It was in Victoria at the 2010 Summer National Championships where Swimming Canada finalized the selection for its 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Team. With fifty-six swimmers selected to the team, one of the biggest Canada has ever had, fun things are bound to happen around the pool deck.

Before leaving for California, the team stayed in Victoria for some training and team building activities. The Canadian team was also fortunate to have a BBQ with Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State for Sport in Canada at his residence.

SwimCan WebTV is proud to bring you a few behind the scenes images of Team Canada before they departed for California to state in LA and compete at the Pan Pacific Championships against Australia, Japan, and the United States in Irvine.

Article courtesy of Swim Canada

Warren's New Kicks:

Image courtesy of Joe Bartoch

Canadian K-Swiss Shoes that are part of the Team Canada Apparel for the 2010 Pan Pacific Games in Los Angeles. K-Swiss is a new sponsor for Team Canada. Warren was very, very excited to receive these!

For the next two weeks Warren will be in British Columbia with the rest of Team Canada in preparation for the Pan Pacific Games. While in British Columbia they will be training and preparing for the meet as a team.  Closer to the Games the Canadian Team will fly down to California for the 2010 Pan Pacific Games.

Further Details: The 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships will begin August 18th at the William Woolett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, Calif. The Pan Pacific Championships represent one of the top international meet of 2010 season.

Being held on U.S. soil for the first time in over a decade, the five-day international meet will feature the world's top swimmers from Australia, Japan, the United States and Canada. Tickets for the Pan Pacific Games will go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 2 and will be available via the USA Swimming website at www.usaswimming.org/PanPacs.

Swimming Canada Announces Team:

The 2010 Canadian Pan Pacific Swim Team

August, 01, 2010

VICTORIA – Swimming Canada announces a fifty-two-member team after a successful Summer National Championships in Victoria.

The team will be led by eighteen Olympian and twenty three members of last year’s World Aquatic Championships.

“This is really exciting young team and a great group of veterans who will be the back bone of this team,” said National Coach and CEO of Swimming Canada, Pierre Lafontaine.  “The great thing is that we’re surrounding the next generation of Olympians for 2012-16 with the best.”

Lafontaine is seeing the results from investment in building a strong junior program.  “We’ve put lots of resources in building our program in last few years and it’s now showing its teeth,” added Lafontaine.  “This new group will add a youthful energy to the senior team.”

At the last Pan Pacific Championships, Canada collected a total of seven medals, 2 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze.  World Champion Brent Hayden grabbed two individual medals for Canada, the gold in the 100-meter freestyle and bronze in the 50-meter freestyle.  It was also a podium debut for Ryan Cochrane, winning the bronze in the 800 free.

At the 2010 edition of the Pacific Championships in Irvine, Lafontaine is looking at making a strong showing in finals.  “We need to compose the finals with more than the five, six of the usual swimmers. This will be a strong meet and will be really exciting with the all the top countries.”

“It’s going to a great way for us to evaluate where we’re at two years before the Olympics.”

View the Canadian Roster for 2010 Pan Pacific Championships