Noemie Thomas

Canadian swimmer

Noemie Thomas

Santa Clara 2016

Personal information

Nationality

Canada

Born

(1996-02-04) February 4, 1996 (age 28)
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Height

5 ft 5 in (165 cm)

Weight

130 lb (59 kg)

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Butterfly, Freestyle

Club

UBC Dolphins Swim Club

College team

University of California, Berkeley

Medal record

Pan American Games

	2015 Toronto	100 m butterfly
	2015 Toronto	4×100 m medley
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
	2012 Honolulu	100 m butterfly
	2012 Honolulu	4×100 m medley

Noemie Thomas (born February 4, 1996)^[1] is a Canadian swimmer who competes in the women's butterfly competitions.^[2] She holds the Canadian national record in the butterfly over the 50 m in the short course.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Thomas also holds the Canadian junior butterfly record in the 100 m.

Background

Thomas started swimming lessons at age five and her first swim club was the Richmond Kigoos.

Career

The Richmond, B.C., native made a big splash at the 2012 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in August in Hawaii. She took gold in the 100-metre butterfly, silver in the 4x100-m medley relay and finished fourth in the 200-m fly.

Noemie Thomas had her senior international coming-out party at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), held in December. She set and then beat her own Canadian record in the 50-m butterfly at the world short-course meet, finishing fourth by just 0.05 seconds in the final. She followed up by establishing a new national mark in the 100-m fly and once again finished just outside the medals in fourth.

Success continued to follow her in 2013, capped by a seventh-place finish in the 100-m butterfly at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona. She earned Swimming Canada’s 2013 Junior Female Swimmer of the Year award for her performance. She and Katerine Savard give Canada a pair of medal threats in the event.

In 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[7]

Results

4th place, 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), 50 m butterfly.
4th place, 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), 100 m butterfly.
7th place, 2013 FINA World Championships (long course), 100 m butterfly.

Personal best times

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Long course

Event	Time	Venue	Date
50 m butterfly	26.23	Saskatoon, Canada.	July 16, 2014
100 m butterfly	57.02	Toronto, Canada.	April 5, 2016
200 m butterfly	2.11.19	Toronto, Ontario, Canada.	April 4, 2015

Short course

Event	Time	Venue	Date	Notes
50 m butterfly	25.60	Istanbul, Turkey	December 16, 2012	List of Canadian records in swimming
100 m butterfly	56.64	Istanbul, Turkey	December 15, 2012
200 m butterfly	2.08.11	New Westminster, Canada.	February 16, 2014

References

^ "Noemie Thomas - Women's Swimming & Diving".
^ "Female sprinters make their mark as teams are named". Swimming.ca. Swimming Canada. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
^ "Swimming Canada". Swimming.ca. Swimming Canada. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
^ "Swimming Canada". www.swimming.ca. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007.
^ "Swimming Canada". Swimming.ca. Swimming Canada. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
^ "Swimming Canada". Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
^ "Olympic Team Nominated for Rio 2016". Swimming.ca. Swimming Canada. April 10, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
^ https://www.swimming.ca/Rankings.aspx?page=athleteDetail&athleteId=4462082 ^{[dead link]}