Brittany MacLean

Personal information 

Full name: Brittany MacLean

National team: Canada 

Born: March 3, 1994 (age 22)

      Etobicoke, Ontario 

Height: 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight: 70 kg (150 lb)

Sport

Sport: Swimming

Stokes: Freestyle 

Club: Etobicke Swim Club

College team: University of Georgia


Brittany MacLean (born March 3, 1994) is a Canadian competitive swimmer who has represented her country in the summer Olympics and other international championships. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Career

Brittany MacLean was first selected as a member of Canada's senior national team in 2011, when she swam at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China. She qualified for the 4x200-metre freestyle relay team that finished 7th in the event final. Also in 2011, MacLean was qualified for the 2011 3rd FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru, where she claimed 2 golds, a silver and a bronze. She claimed gold in the 400-metre and the 200-metre freestyle, silver in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay, and bronze in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay. She set and new junior world record in the 200-metre freestyle with a time of 1.58.93. She attended the Silverthorn Collegiate Institute in Toronto.

2012 Canadian Olympic Trials, Montreal, Quebec

On March 27, 2012, MacLean qualified to her first Olympic team by winning the Women's 400-metre freestyle final with a new Canadian record of 4.06.08. On the third day of the trials, she qualified for the 4x200-metre freestyle relay with her teammate Amanda Reason. Setting a new personal best of 1.58.09. All of this, Brittany wasn't happy with what she made as long as her sister, Heather was joining her on the team. Her sister Heather qualified for the team on her last event the 4x100-metre finishing 3rd with a securing spot to London.

2012 Summer Olympics, London, England

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, MacLean swam the 400-metre freestyle heats as her first event, while breaking her Canadian record to 4.05.06 which qualified her to sixth in the final. In the final, she finished 7th with a 4.06.24. In her second event, the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, MacLean swam the anchor leg for the relay heats which qualified Canada to third for the final with her teammates Barbara Jardin, Samantha Cheverton and Amanda Reason with a time of 7.50.84. In the final, MacLean and her teammates finished fourth with a time of 7.50.65.

2016 Summer Olympics

In 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics. MacLean helped the Canadian team win a bronze in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, but had her performance in individual races hindered by illness, which even had her miss the relay qualifiers. In October, she announced her retirement, deciding to instead finish her degree in sport management at the University of Georgia. 

Medal record  

Women's swimming
Representing Canada

Olympic Games
 2016: Rio de Janeiro 4×200 m freestyle

Pan Pacific Championships
 2014: Gold Coast 800 m freestyle
 2014: Gold Coast 1500 m freestyle
 2014: Gold Coast 4×200 m freestyle

Pan American Games 
 2015: Toronto 4×200 m freestyle

Commonwealth Games
 2014: Glasgow 4×200 m freestyle
 2014: Glasgow 800 m freestyle

Summer Universiade
 2013: Kazan 4×100 m freestyle
 2013: Kazan 4×200 m freestyle

Penny Oleksiak

Personal information
Full name	Penelope Oleksiak
National team	Canada
Born	June 13, 2000 (age 16)[1] Toronto, Ontario
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
	68 kg (150 lb)

Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	Toronto Swim Club
Coach	Bill O'Toole

Penelope "Penny" Oleksiak (born June 13, 2000) is a Canadian competitive swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly events. During the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Canadian to win four medals in the same Summer Games and the country's youngest Olympic champion, with a gold in the 100 m freestyle, a silver in the 100 m butterfly, and two bronzes in the women's freestyle relays (4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m). One year prior, Oleksiak had won six medals at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. She is the current junior world and Canadian record holder in the 100 m freestyle and 100 m butterfly, initially setting the records at the age of 15 while improving them at age 16. She currently shares the Olympic record in the 100 metre freestyle with Simone Manuel.  Her brother is NHL player Jamie Oleksiak.

Career

After learning to swim at a neighbour's pool, Oleksiak took up the sport at the age of 9 encouraged by her father. She had also taken up gymnastics and competitive dance. First indications of great potential for Oleksiak were identified when she won six medals at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. This included a gold in the mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay; silver in her signature 100 m freestyle event; silver in the 50 and 100 m butterfly; a silver in the 4 × 200 m relay and a bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle events.

Her next goal was to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the Canadian national team; there she set the Junior world record in qualifying for the 100 m freestyle. After winning the race she said "being able to get the world junior record means quite a bit to me". Oleksiak also beat Chantal Van Landeghem's Canadian record in the process; Van Landeghem joined Oleksiak in the 100 and 4 × 100 m freestyle events for the Olympics. Oleksiak also set the Canadian record in the 100 m butterfly en route to the Olympics in that event.

2016 Summer Olympics

Oleksiak competed on Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Her competition began on day one. In the heats of the 100 m butterfly, she broke the national record and world junior record with a time of 56.73 on her way to the semi-finals. Oleksiak also anchored the final leg of the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team with Taylor Ruck, Chantal van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville, and Michelle Williams with the latter only swimming in the heat. In the final of the relay event she held on to the third position against the United States and Australia, winning Canada's first Olympic medal in the women's freestyle relay in 40 years. After the race the 16 year old said "No one really expected this of Canada coming into the meet, but now that we are here, people are going to be surprised at what we do."

The next night she competed in the 100 m butterfly final. Oleksiak started out fast, touching the halfway wall in third before finishing characteristically strong in second place, winning the silver medal. She again bettered her world junior record and Canadian record in the 100 m butterfly in the process. Oleksiak became the first Canadian to ever win a medal on each of the first two days of the Olympics. With the win she exclaimed that "I'm just happy that I made Canada proud and getting to look up into the stands and find my parents, it's just amazing for me and it's such a great feeling."

Returning to the pool on day five, Oleksiak again had a record breaking qualifier followed by a relay medal. She broke the world junior record of the 100 m freestyle with 52.72, the second fastest time of the qualifying heats, and anchored the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, again winning the bronze   (along with Katerine Savard, Taylor Ruck, and Brittany MacLean). Oleksiak's leg time of 1:54.94 was 4th fastest in the relay, behind the three medalists of the 200 m freestyle.

On day six, Oleksiak won the gold medal in the 100m freestyle. She tied with Simone Manuel setting an Olympic record of 52.70. Oleksiak is the youngest Canadian to become an Olympic champion, the first to win four Summer Olympics medals in the same edition, and has the second most medals of the country in a single edition after Cindy Klassen in the 2006 Winter Olympics.  She is also the first athlete born after January 1, 2000 to win an individual Olympic gold medal.

Personal life

Oleksiak is the youngest of four siblings, and sister of NHL defenceman Jamie Oleksiak, who plays for the Dallas Stars.  She attends Monarch Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario. The family has an athletic tradition: father Richard lettered in track at Colgate University, mother Alison was also a runner who only missed the 1980 Canadian Olympic Trials because of the U.S.-led boycott, older sister Hayley is a rower at Northeastern, and older brother Jake played college hockey.

Personal bests

Long course (50 m pool)

Event	Time	Venue	Date	Notes
100 m butterfly	56.46	Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	7 August 2016	WJR, NR
100 m freestyle	52.70	Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	11 August 2016	OR*, WJR,AR

• *52.70 tied for OR and gold with American swimmer Simone Manuel.

Medal record

Event	1st	2nd	3rd
Olympic Games	1	1	2
World Junior Championships	1	4	1
Total	2	5	3

Women's Swimming

Representing Canada

Olympic Games

Gold: 2016 Rio de Janeiro - 100 m freestyle

Silver: 2016 Rio de Janeiro - 100 m butterfly

Bronze: 2016 Rio de Janeiro -4x100 m freestyle 

Bronze: 2016 Rio de Janeiro - 4x200 m freestyle

World Junior Championships

Gold: 2015 Singapore - 4x100 m mixed free

Silver: 2015 Singapore - 100 m freestyle 

Silver: 2015 Singapore - 100 m butterfly

Silver: 2015 Singapore - 50 m butterfly

Silver: 2015 Singapore - 4x200 m freestyle 

Bronze: 2015 Singapore - 4x100 m freestyle

  

Matt Biondi

Matt Biondi




Personal information

Full name: Matthew Nicholas Biondi

Nickname(s): "Matt", "The California Condor"

National team: United States

Born: October 8, 1965 (age 49)Moraga,California 

Height: 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

Weight: 209 lb (95 kg)

Sport

Sport: Swimming

Strokes: Freestyle, Butterfly

College team:  University of California, Berkeley

Matthew Nicholas Biondi (born October 8, 1965)is an American former competition swimmer, eleven-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in five events.
Biondi competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1992, winning a total of eleven medals (eight gold, two silver and one bronze). During his career, he set three individual world records in the 50-meter freestyle and four in the 100-meter freestyle.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Biondi won five gold medals, setting world records in the 50-meter freestyle and three relay events.

Biondi is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and United States Olympic Hall of Fame.

Early life and athletics

Biondi started his aquatics career as a swimmer and water polo player in his hometown of Moraga, California. As he moved into his teens, his incredible abilities as a sprint swimmer began to emerge. Though he did not start swimming year-round until he started at Campolindo High School, by his senior year Biondi was the top Schoolboy sprinter in America with a national high school record of 20.40 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle. He accepted a scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley, to swim and play water polo, and enrolled in 1983. In his freshman year he played on Berkeley NCAA championship water polo team, and made the consolation finals at the 1984 NCAA swimming championships.

Olympic Career

1984 Olympics

In the summer of 1984, Biondi surprised the swimming community by qualifying for a spot on the U.S. 4x100 meter freestyle relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Team won the gold medal in a world record time. Upon returning to Berkeley, Biondi once again played on an NCAA champion water polo team in the fall, and during the winter of 1985, he won the first of his eight individual swimming titles at the NCAA championships.

Biondi was selected as the NCAA Swimmer of the Year in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and he set several American and NCAA records.

Biondi set the first of his twelve individual swimming world records in 1985. He was the first man to swim the 100-meter freestyle faster than 49 seconds, and by 1988 he owned the  ten fastest times swum in the event. He won a total 24 U.S. Championships (1986 and 1991), Biondi won 11 medals including six gold. During his career, he was a finalist for the James E. Sullivan Award, the UPI Sportsman of the year, U.S. Olympic Committee Sportsman of the year and selected twice as the Swimming World magazine Male Swimmer of the World, in 1986 and 1988.

1988 Olympics

Biondi was involved in perhaps one of the oddest defeats of any competitor at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In the 100-meter butterfly final race, he was caught between strokes as he approached the finishing wall. He chose to glide stroke, and Biondi was edged out by Anthony Nesty of Surinam by just one one-hundredth (0.01) of second.

Biondi still won five gold medals, one silver medals, and one bronze medal in the 1988 Olympics, breaking the world records in four those victories: three in relay races, and one in the 50 meter freestyle, taking just 22.14 seconds for this swim. This was the third time that he broken or equalled the existing 50 meter freestyle world record.

Biondi's time in the 100 meter freestyle final was the only swim below 49.00 seconds of the competition, and he set a new Olympic record of 48.63 seconds the seconds fastest swim at this distance in history.


1992 Olympics

At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona,  Biondi won two more gold medals in relays and a silver in the 50 meter freestyle.

World Championships

Biondi competed at the World Championships in 1996 and 1991, winning six gold medals.

In 1986, he won three gold medals, one silver and three bronzes to set a record of seven medals at one World Championships meet. (This record has since been matched by Michael Phelps.)

Life outside competitive swimming 

Biondi graduated from the University of California Berkeley, in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Societies (PEIS).

Biondi married Kirsten Metzger in her home state of Hawaii in 1995. They have three children: their sons Nathaniel (Nate), born in 1998 and Lucas, born in 2000; and their daughter Makena, born in 2007.

Kirsten Biondi persuaded her husband to continue his, education, and he earned his master's degree in education in 2000 at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

In recent years Biondi has worked as a school teacher and swimming coach in Hawaii. As of 2012, he has been hired to teach math and coach at Sierra Canyon School in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth.

Biondi has become active within the masters swimming community, launching an annual masters competition that bears his name. The Matt Biondi Masters Classic was held for the first time on march 24, 2014, in Simi Valley, California. The competition is a one-day short course yards meet held in Conjunction with Biondi is masters club, the Conejo Valley Multisport Masters.


Medal Record

International aquatics competitions

Event	1st	2nd	3rd
Olympic Games	8	2	1
World Championships (LC)	6	2	3
Pan Pacific Games	13	3	2
Summer Universiade	4	1	0
Total	31	8	6

  
    
Men's swimming 

Competitor of the United States

Olympic Games

Gold: 1984 Los Angeles - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1988 Seoul - 50 m freestyle
Gold: 1988 Seoul - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1988 Seoul - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1988 Seoul - 4x200 m freestyle
Gold: 1988 Seoul - 4x100 m medley 
Gold: 1992 Barcelona - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1992 Barcelona - 4x100 m medley
Silver: 1988 Seoul - 100 m butterfly 
Silver: 1992 Barcelona - 50 m freestyle
Bronze: 1988 Seoul - 200 m freestyle


World Championships (LC)

Gold: 1986 Madrid - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1986 Madrid - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1986 Madrid - 4x100 m medley
Gold: 1991 Perth - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1991 Perth - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1991 Perth - 4x100 m medley
Silver: 1986 Madrid - 100 m butterfly
Silver: 1991 Perth - 50 m freestyle
Bronze: 1986 Madrid - 50 m freestyle
Bronze: 1991 Perth - 200 m freestyle
Bronze: 1991 Perth - 4x200 m freestyle

Pan Pacific Games

Gold: 1985 Tokyo - 50 m freestyle
Gold: 1985 Tokyo - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1985 Tokyo - 4x100 m freetyle
Gold: 1985 Tokyo - 4x100 m medley
Gold: 1987 Brisbane - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1987 Brisbane - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1987 Brisbane - 4x100 m medley
Gold: 1987 Brisbane - 4x200 m freestyle
Gold: 1989 Tokyo - 4x100 m medley
Gold: 1991 Brisbane - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1991 Brisbane - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1991 Brisbane - 4x100 m medley
Gold: 1991 Brisbane - 100 m butterfly
Silver: 1985 Tokyo - 200 m freestyle
Silver: 1987 Brisbane - 50 m freestyle
Silver: 1991 Brisbane - 50 m freestyle
Bronze: 1985 Tokyo - 100 m butterfly
Bronze: 1987 Brisbane - 100 m butterfly

Summer Universiade

Gold: 1985 Kobe - 100 m freestyle
Gold: 1985 Kobe - 200 m freestyle
Gold: 1985 Kobe - 4x100 m freestyle
Gold: 1985 Kobe - 4x200 m freestyle
Silver: 1985 Kobe - 100 m butterfly