Kylie Masse - CAN
DOB: 18 January 1996
Event: 100m Backstroke
**Key Stats:
**Olympics: 1 x Bronze
World Championships (SC): 2 x Silver
Canadian Record: 100m Back
Canadian backstroke swimmer, Kylie Masse, was born in La Salle, Ontario. A talented swimmer from a young age, she went on to compete at University, becoming the 2015-16 Canadian Interuniversity Sport Swimmer of the Year. By 2016 she’d made the senior Olympic team, taking bronze and breaking the Canadian record in the 100m backstroke of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The following year, at the 2017 Canadian Swimming Championships, Kylie broke the Canadian and American records with a time of 58.21, leading her to take the title of the fastest female across 100m backstroke in a textile suit.
Every so often, it’s worthwhile to take a moment and appreciate how much work has been done over the years to achieve women’s equality. It’s hard to think that there was a time when women weren’t allowed to compete in any sport, let alone swimming!
Elite swim coach Fred Vergnoux is no stranger to steering swimmers to Olympic glory and world champion status. A former head coach to the Spanish Olympic team, he’s seen more than 244 records broken under his tutelage, including world and national record-breaking performances from Spanish number one, Mireia Belmonte Garcia.
“Growing up, all my role models wore Speedo when they competed”.
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