MASSE Kylie

Date of Birth: 18 Jan 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Place of birth: WINDSOR, ON

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : LASALLE, ON

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Backstroke	2
	Women's 200m Backstroke	2
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay CAN Canada	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	4x100Medley W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3rd (58.76)	5th (3:55.49)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	1st (58.60)	3rd (2:06.62)	3rd (3:53.58)	5th (3:43.06)
2017	Budapest, HUN	SF (27.64)	1st (58.10)	5th (2:07.04)	4th (3:54.86)	3rd (3:41.25)

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley W
2018	Tokyo, JPN	1st (58.61)	4th (2:07.00)	4th (3:55.14)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Back	100Back	200Back
2019	1 x 1st	1 x 1st	1 x 3rd

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	Women's 50m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	28.20
1	2019	100m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	59.13
3	2019	200m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	2:07.59

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	100IndMed	4x50Medley W	4x100Medley
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	8th (26.46)	2nd (56.24)	H (DNS)	4th (1:46.00)	2nd (3:48.87)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Ky (olympic.ca, 01 Sep 2018)

Travelling, dancing. (0olympic.ca, 06 Oct 2020, 01 Sep 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Human Movement Studies - University of Toronto, Canada

Languages spoken:

Ben Titley [national], GBR; John Atkinson [national]

She learned to swim as a young girl in LaSalle, ON, Canada, and started competing around age 10. She said swimming did not come naturally to her. "I was a little bit of a klutz - not exactly anyone's prediction of an Olympian." (utoronto.ca, 19 Sep 2019; olympic.ca, 01 Sep 2018)

She was originally involved in ice hockey [winter] and football [summer], before focusing on swimming. "I think any athletic experiences develop the foundation of agility and skills. There are skills, like strength and power, that you'd develop over time in one sport that would help in another sport as well. For those years I was playing soccer, hockey and swimming, I really liked doing them all. I liked being active." Her parents encouraged her to take up swimming. She joined her local swimming team after attending a summer swim programme with her siblings. "[Sport in my family] was all about balance. Sport was a huge thing, but so was school and there was an equal amount of hard work dedicated to both." (sportsnet.ca, 21 Feb 2020; utoronto.ca, 19 Sep 2019; westswim.ca, 22 Apr 2016; olympic.ca, 12 Apr 2016)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympic.ca, 06 Oct 2020)

She trains at the High Performance Centre in Toronto, ON, Canada. (swimontario.com, 05 Mar 2021)

Setting a world record in the 100m backstroke at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (olympic.ca, 06 Oct 2020; cbc.ca, 16 Jul 2019)

Canadian trampoline gymnast Rosie MacLennan. (ONS, 09 Aug 2016)

Philosophy:

"I try to really focus on myself and not think about what other people are thinking or what other people are saying. I bring it back to just having confidence in my training, confidence in myself and my support team around me. There are a lot of small technical things in swimming that take a while to nail and be consistent with, so I just continue to practise those, and they become a habit." (csiontario.ca, 10 Dec 2019; csiontario.ca, 10 Dec 2019)

In 2019 she was named Swimming Canada's Female Swimmer of the Year. She also won the award in 2018 and 2017. (cbc.ca, 10 Dec 2019)

In 2019 she concluded her college swimming career at the University of Toronto as the U Sports Swimmer of the Year for the fourth consecutive season. (mcgillathletics.ca, 23 Feb 2019)

In 2018 she won the Canadian Commonwealth Excellence Award after her performances at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (swimming.ca, 01 Sep 2019)

General Interest

General
STUDENT-ATHLETE IN CANADA
Unlike many high-performance swimmers in North America, she decided to stay in Canada to attend university rather than go to the United States of America and compete under the National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] programme. "Growing up so close to the US, I think I was heavily influenced to go there and a lot of swimmers on my club team before me had gone. I went on four official recruit trips and then I decided to visit both University of British Columbia [UBC] and University of Toronto [U of T] in Canada. I wanted to ensure I was going to a school with good academics, as well as athletics, and after visiting U of T, I really enjoyed the atmosphere and I saw the resources available and great coaching staff and team. It wasn't too far from home for me, it wasn't too close, so it kind of was the perfect fit." (olympic.ca, 06 Oct 2020)

RIO BET WITH COACH
Before she swam the 100m backstroke final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she and coach Byron MacDonald made a bet that if she could top MacDonald's sixth-place finish at the 1972 Games in Munich, he would buy her a pair of tickets to see Canadian hip-hop star Drake in Toronto. "That was our little running joke." After she won bronze, MacDonald made good on the bet, and she went to see Drake at the Air Canada Centre later that year with her friend and teammate Penny Oleksiak. (utoronto.ca, 19 Sep 2019)

Milestones

In 2019 she became the first Canadian swimmer to defend a world championship title when she won gold in the 100m backstroke, two years after winning her first world title in the event at the 2017 edition of the tournament. Her gold medal at the 2017 edition also made her the first Canadian female swimmer to win a gold medal at the world championships. (SportsDeskOnline, 12 Feb 2020; olympic.ca, 01 Sep 2019)

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Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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