Following the nation's most successful Olympic Games in four decades, Canada’s senior national swim team will return to international action at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) 2024 in Budapest, Hungary. The competition runs from 10 to 15 December.
 
The 18-athlete team consists of seasoned veterans of the senior national team, 15 of whom have just come off the Games in Paris, but also welcomes two rookies, Alexanne Lepage, a two-time junior world champion from Kelowna, B.C. and three-time Junior Pan Pacific Championship medallist, Oliver Dawson from Grand Prairie, Alta. 
 
“I’m excited to be named to my first senior team,” said Dawson, a breaststroker who took 100-metre bronze and was part of two relay silver medals at the recent Junior Pan Pacs in Canberra, Australia. “I look forward to competing against some of the best swimmers in the world. I’m ready to embrace this incredible opportunity and give my all, making unforgettable memories while representing my country on the world stage.”
 
The competition will be at Budapest’s Duna Arena, which has previously hosted several major events, including the 2017 and 2022 World Aquatics Championships.

 
Three Paris 2024 Olympic medallist are among the team leaders. Kylie Masse, who took bronze in 200-m backstroke, Ilya Kharun who captured two bronze medals in 100-m and 200-m butterfly, will be joined by Summer McIntosh. McIntosh, who recently turned 18, won three gold in 200-m and 400-m individual medley and 200-m butterfly, and a silver medal in 400-m freestyle, and was one of Canada’s Closing Ceremony flag bearers.
 
“I am excited to end 2024 with the World Aquatics short course championships at one of my favourite venues and cities in the world,” said McIntosh, who won her first two long-course gold medals in Budapest in 2022. “Team Canada typically brings a smaller team with a lot of spirit ready to embrace another opportunity to go up against the very best. It should be a lot of fun to race short course metres for the first time in a couple of years and great to see everyone again.”
 
The 2024 championships will also mark the return of three-time Olympian Penny Oleksiak, who will compete at her first short course worlds since it was held in Windsor, Ont. in 2016. Racing in front of a home crowd, the then 16-year-old took home two gold, one silver and one bronze medal. With nearly a decade of international racing experience under her belt, she will look to play a vital role in Canada’s success this winter.
 
“As we move forward from a very successful summer that was focused on the Paris Olympic Games and backed up with our most successful Junior Pan Pacs performance, it is great to announce the world 25m championships team for Budapest as the first event in the quad to Los Angeles 2028,” said High Performance Director and National Coach John Atkinson. “We have some great potential on this team and a blend of medal-winning experience and new athletes to the senior team.”
  

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