Canada’s Masse, Pickrem claim wins as Toronto Titans kick off final match of ISL regular season | CBC Sports

Fellow Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem won the women’s 200 individual medley to help move the London Roar into second place in the match standings — touching the wall in 2:04.59 for the fastest time of the ISL season.

Energy Standard leads with 300.5 points entering the final day, followed by London with 227 points, D.C. Trident with 193 points, and Toronto with 185.5 points.

WATCH | Canada’s Pickrem claims win for London Roar in women’s 200 IM:

4-time Olympic medalist Kylie Masse swims to ISL win

Lasalle, Ont., native Kylie Masse won the 50 metre backstroke race at the ISL event in Naples, Italy Thursday finishing with a time of 26.53. 2:38

The top six teams in the regular season standings automatically advance to the playoffs, while the bottom four teams will square off in the play-in wildcard match on Sept. 29-30 for the two remaining post-season spots.

Led by numerous Canadian Olympians, the Titans took an early lead after winning the first three events of the day.

Louise Hansson got things started for the Titans by winning the women’s 100 butterfly to earn 10 points with a time of 55.67, and Marius Kusch followed it up with a dominant victory in the men’s 100 butterfly — touching in 49.73 to add nine points.

Fellow Canadian Mary-Sophie Harvey touched third with a time of 2:03.58, giving Energy Standard six points.

Energy Standard proceeded to roll off six straight wins to claim the lead while Toronto fell behind, including a massive victory in the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay that created major separation. 

Evgenii Rylov won the men’s 200 backstroke (1:49.93), and Evgeniia Chikunova claimed the women’s 200 breaststroke (2:17.57) as Energy Standard added 27 combined points. Chikunova also set a new world junior record in the process.

Canada’s Bailey Andison finished second for D.C. Trident with a time of 2:19:66 to earn seven points.

Sarah Sjostrom, Femke Heemskerk, Siobhan Haughey and Fanny Teijonsalo claimed the 4×100 — earning 38 points with a time of 3:28:88. The Titans raced to second and earned 14 points in the relay, as Canada’s Kayla Sanchez teamed up with Kasia Wasick, Michelle Coleman and Louise Hansson to post a time of 3:29:81.

WATCH | 4-time Olympic medalist Kylie Masse wins women’s 50m backstroke:

Canada’s Sydney Pickrem claims ISL win in Naples

Sydney Pickrem claimed an ISL win Thursday in Naples, Italy for the London Roar in the 200 metre individual medley hitting the wall with a time of 2:04.59. 3:59

Ben Proud added 12 more points for Energy Standard with a winning time of 20.84 in the men’s 50 freestyle, while four-time Canadian Olympian Brent Hayden finished sixth to give Toronto three points.

Toronto went on to add seven more points with a second-place finish in the men’s 200 individual medley, as Canada’s Finlay Knox touched the wall in 1:52.70 behind winner Andreas Vazaios of the D.C. Trident (1:52.24). 

Energy Standard star Ilya Shymanovich earned 19 points while the team added 26 total points in the men’s 50 breaststroke. Shymanovich and Felipe Lima finished 1-2 for Energy Stanard with times of 25.56 and 26.18, respectively.

Canadian Olympic medallist Kayla Sanchez came in seventh in the women’s 50 breaststroke for the Titans with a time of 31.27, with the 19-point victory going to Alia Atkinson of the Roar.

Canada’s Yuri Kisil helped lead the Titans to a second-place finish in the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay (3:08.06), along with Hayden, Kusch and Blake Pieroni. The event was won by the Roar’s Kyle Chalmers, Dylan Carter, Katsumi Nakamura and Edward Mildred with a time of 3:06.50.

Masse claimed the women’s 50 backstroke while earning nine points for Toronto, and the team’s final win came in the men’s 400 freestyle when Luc Kroon touched first in 3:40.74 to notch 11 points.

Energy Standard closed out the day with a decisive win in the men’s 4×100 medley, increasing the lead by 24 points while adding even more momentum entering the final day of regular season competition.