Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Sydney Pickrem of Halifax, Nova Scotia, won the silver medal in the women’s 200-meter individual medley at the 2024 World Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Monday. This is the second day in a row that Canada won a medal in swimming, as Canada won bronze in the women’s 4×100-meter relay on Sunday.
In the final of the women’s 200-meter medley relay, Pickrem took second place with a time of 2:08.56. Kate Douglass of the USA won the gold medal with a time of 2:07.05. Yiting Yu of China won the bronze medal with a time of 2:09.01. Pickrem comfortably reached the podium. Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel took fourth place with a time of 2:10.17.
Pickrem won her Olympic bronze medal 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the women’s 4×100 meter medley relay alongside Canadian swimming legends Penny Oleksiak of Toronto, Ontario, Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario, and Kylie Masse of Windsor, Ontario. This was Pickrem’s fifth medal at the World Aquatics Championships. She previously won four bronze medals. They competed in the women’s 400-meter individual medley at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, as well as the 200-meter individual medley, the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay and the women’s 200-meter backstroke at the World Aquatics Championships Used in Gwangju in 2019. The silver medal in Doha will give Pickrem confidence as she prepares for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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