SAVARD Katerine

Date of Birth: 26 May 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Place of birth: PONT-ROUGE, QC

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : MONTREAL, QC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Butterfly
	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay CAN Canada	4
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay CAN Canada

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200Free	100Fly	200Fly	4x200Free	4x100Medley W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (1:57.80)	-	-	3rd (7:45.39)	-
2012	London, GBR	-	SF (59.22)	H (2:11.05)	-	H (4:02.71)

World Championships

Year	Location	200Free	50Fly	100Fly	200Fly	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2017	Budapest, HUN	SF (1:58.46)	H (26.81)	H (58.71)	-	-	8th (7:55.57)	-	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (2:00.30)	H (26.93)	5th (57.69)	-	5th (3:36.44)	H (7:57.31)	6th (3:57.96)	7th (3:46.23)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	-	5th (57.97)	SF (2:10.42)	-	-	7th (4:00.19)	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	-	H (26.87)	SF (58.07)	H (2:09.41)	-	-	7th (DSQ)	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	200Free	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W
2019	Lima, PER	7th (2:01.18)	3rd (3:41.01)	2nd (7:59.16)	2nd

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	200Free	50Fly	100Fly	200Fly	4x50Free X	4x50Medley X	4x200Free	4x100Medley
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	6th (1:54.21)	6th (25.51)	4th (56.15)	7th (2:07.49)	3rd	5th (1:38.98)	1st (7:33.89)	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

Kat, Koot, Kittykat, Kitkat (swimswam.com, 19 Feb 2015)

Travel, watching movies, shopping, spending time with family. (swimming.ca, 11 Aug 2019)

Occupation:

Education - University of Montreal, Canada

Languages spoken:

English, French

Club Aquatique de Montreal [Canada]

Claude St-Jean [personal]

2010 for Canada (natation.ca, 27 Sep 2010)

She withdrew from the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, due to health reasons. (swimswam.com, 23 Mar 2018)

She injured her left ankle in September 2015, which delayed her start to the 2015/16 season. She also suffered ankle injuries prior to the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (lapresse.ca, 17 Nov 2015)

She first tried swimming at an early age. She took up competitive swimming at age nine at the UNIK club in Pont-Rouge, QC, Canada, and joined a sport studies programme at La Camaradiere High School in Quebec City, QC, Canada, in 2006. (katerinesavard.com, 09 Sep 2012)

Her mother had a fear of water and drowning so she introduced Savard to swimming to ensure she did not have the same problem. She started learning to swim before she was able to walk. (katerinesavard.com, 05 Nov 2012)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (lapresse.ca, 08 Oct 2020)

US swimmer Dara Torres. (swimming.ca, 11 Aug 2019)

Philosophy:

"Hold on to your dreams, no matter where you go." (lanouvelle.net, 12 May 2018)

She was named 2014 Rookie of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year in the swimming category by Canadian Interuniversity Sport [CIS]. (swimswam.com, 15 Feb 2015)

She received the 2012 Best Senior Female Athlete award from the Quebec Swimming Federation in Canada. (katerinesavard.com, 09 Jun 2013)

She was named Best Junior Female Athlete for 2010 and 2011 by the Quebec Swimming Federation in Canada. (katerinesavard.com, 09 Jun 2013)

General Interest

General
RIO REDEMPTION
She had hoped to compete in the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but failed to qualify for the Games in the event. However, she ended up winning bronze in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay in Rio. "The moment I came third [in the 100m butterfly at the Canadian Olympic trials], I knew I lost my national title, my national record, and my place on the Olympic team. Honestly, that was one of the hardest moments of my career because I trained for it. I was not expecting to be able to make the team in another event. I never trained for the freestyle before that. I guess everything happens for a reason and if I had swam the 100m butterfly in Rio, I guess I wouldn't have a medal in the 4x200m." (swimming.ca, 01 Jan 2018; cbc.ca, 29 Aug 2017; Swimming Canada Facebook page, 01 Jan 2017)

FILM STAR
She played the lead character in the Canadian film 'Nadia, Butterfly', which was released in 2020 and was selected for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. The film is about a fictional Canadian swimmer who is preparing to retire after competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 21 Sep 2020; lapresse.ca, 09 Feb 2020)

Milestones

She was part of the team that won Canada's first Olympic medal in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay, when she claimed bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after swimming the opening leg of the race in the final of the event. (olympic.ca, 01 Aug 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 27 Oct 2020)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/katerine.savard.9
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Katerine.Savard93
https://instagram.com/katerinesavard
https://twitter.com/KaterineSavard
Athlete Website: http://katerinesavard.com

Legend

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

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