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By Curtis Galbraith

Swimming

Grande Prairie swimmer finishes eighth in heat, 21st overall at World Short Course Swimming Championships

Dec 13, 2024 | 4:11 PM

A 16-year-old Grande Prairie Piranhas swimmer has recorded a very respectable showing at the World Short Course Swimming Championships taking place in Budapest, Hungary.

Oliver Dawson finished eighth in his 200-metre breaststroke heat, putting him 21st overall.

Dawson’s time of 2:07.62 left him 4.55 seconds back of the first-place finisher in his heat an eventual bronze medalist, American A J Prouch.

Dawson was also 3.47 seconds back of the final qualifying spot for the final.

He is the reigning Canadian champion in this event.

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Canada won two more medals on Friday, taking silver in the 4 x 50-metre mixed freestyle relay. Albertan Ingrid Wilm, along with two other multi-medalists at this competition, Ilya Kharun and Mary-Sophie Harvey and Yiri Kisil were on the relay team.

Kharun has now won a gold and three silver medals, Wilm has two silver and two bronze and Harvey has a silver and two bronze.

Canada’s Kylie Masse won bronze in the women’s 50-metre backstroke Friday by a tenth of a second over the fourth-place finisher Wilm. Masse now has a silver and a bronze.

The competition wraps up Sunday.