Ilya Kharun swims to new Canadian record in win at Tyr Pro Meet

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Montreal's Ilya Kharun established a caller Canadian grounds successful the men's 50-metre butterfly astatine the Tyr Pro Meet connected Friday successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Fellow Canadian Summer McIntosh astir matches idiosyncratic champion successful 200m backstroke

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· Posted: May 03, 2025 8:12 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A antheral swimmer pumps his near fist successful solemnisation portion holding the borderline of a excavation astatine the extremity of a lane pursuing a race.

Ilya Kharun set a caller Canadian grounds connected the mode to a triumph successful the men's 50m butterfly last connected Friday astatine the Tyr Pro Meet in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The Montreal swimmer, 19, touched the partition successful 23.09 seconds to people the triumph and eclipse the erstwhile Canadian grounds of 23.25 held by Finlay Knox since aboriginal 2024.

Kharun's clip connected Friday was besides a Pro Series Swim record, breaking the 23.11 people acceptable by Matt Targett successful 2012.

Kharun won Olympic bronze medals at Paris 2024 successful the 100m and 200m butterfly.

McIntosh nears idiosyncratic best

Fellow Canadian Summer McIntosh nearly matched her idiosyncratic champion clip successful the women's 200m backstroke final. The Toronto swimmer finished successful 2nd place, touching the partition successful 2:06.82. That's conscionable 0.01 backmost of her champion mark, set successful 2023.

McIntosh was conscionable 0.50 down the winner, Regan Smith. The American is the world-record holder in the 100m backstroke.

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Saturday is the last time of enactment astatine the meet, wherever McIntosh is scheduled to swim successful the 200m breaststroke and the 100m butterfly.

In different Canadian results from Fort Lauderdale connected Friday, Shona Branton (Port Lambton, Ont.) and Sophie Angus (Weston, Conn.) finished sixth and eighth successful the women's 50m breaststroke, respectively.

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