Blake Tierney's Olympic dreams will come true this summer in Paris, as the 22-year-old has qualified in the pool for Canada's national swim team.
WATCH: Saskatoon product Blake Tierney will be competing in his first Olympics this summer after qualifying in the 100 metre and 200 metre backstroke, breaking a Canadian record in the latter.
Luckily for the Saskatoon product, those nerves didn’t get in the way of the biggest race of his life.Tierney narrowly beat out Javier Acevedo in the men’s 100-metre backstroke final with a time of 53.48 to not only win the Canadian title but reach the Olympic standard as well. That was just the start for the 22-year-old however, as he would go on to win top spot in the 200 metre backstroke as well to set a new Canadian record in the event with a time of 1:56.74.
Tierney’s appointment to Canada’s Olympic team continues a run of Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the pool hailing from Saskatchewan this year including Regina-born Kelsey Wog, pending Paralympians Nikita Ens, Shelby Newkirk and Hannah Ouellette, and divers Rylan Wiens and Margo Erlam.According to Hitchings, he’s seen firsthand the competition that goes on with the high-level athletes who are performing in Saskatoon and Regina.
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