THORMEYER Markus

Date of Birth: 25 Aug 1997

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Place of birth: NEWMARKET, ON

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : VANCOUVER, BC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 100m Backstroke
	Men's 200m Backstroke
	Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay CAN Canada	4
	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay CAN Canada	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke - Heat 6	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	4x100Free M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (3:14.35)

World Championships

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	100Back	200Back	4x100Free M	4x100Free X	4x200Free	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (49.05)	-	SF (53.59)	8th (1:58.50)	H (3:15.06)	4th (3:22.54)	H (7:14.01)	H (3:34.79)
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	H (1:50.23)	-	-	6th (3:15.25)	3rd	H (7:17.36)	-

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	200Free	100Back	200Back	4x100Free M	4x200Free
2018	Tokyo, JPN	Final B (1:48.23)	6th (54.02)	Final B (1:59.37)	4th (3:14.50)	5th (7:18.25)

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

Year	200Free	100Back	200Back
2020	1 x 4th	1 x 3rd	1 x 1st

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	200m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	1:59.02
3	2020	100m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	54.54
4	2020	200m Freestyle	Shenzhen, CHN	1:50.72

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x50Free X	4x100Free	4x200Free
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (48.85)	H (1:45.36)	H (24.97)	H (53.15)	H (1:57.11)	3rd (1:29.83)	7th (3:09.96)	H (7:04.78)

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

Marquenis (Facebook profile, 23 Aug 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Environmental Science - University of British Columbia, Canada

Languages spoken:

University of British Columbia [Vancouver, BC, CAN]

Tom Johnson, CAN

National team:

2015 (swimming.ca, 09 Sep 2020)

He began swimming at age eight at a summer camp. (olympic.ca, 27 Mar 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (delta-optimist.com, 15 Dec 2019)

He collects his deck passes from all his competitions and keeps them in his bag. (olympic.ca, 27 Mar 2016)

Philosophy:

"[In swimming] I've gotta do everything right. That's what swimming is. You have to hit the dive, hit the breakout, have your proper stroke technique into the turn. You have to do your best. For me swimming is just doing everything right. It's not about best times. It's not about racing people. It's like making the race as fast as you can." (cnc.ca, 17 Jul 2019)

In 2018 and 2019 he was named Swimming Canada's Male Swimmer of the Year. (delta-optimist.com, 15 Dec 2019; swimswam.com, 13 Dec 2019)

In 2017 he was named University of British Columbia Thunderbirds Male Rookie of the Year. (Twitter profile, 05 Apr 2017)

General Interest

General
LATE CALL-UP LEADS TO NATIONAL RECORD
At the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, he was called up to compete in the 200m backstroke semifinals at the last minute after Chinese swimmer Xu Jiayu pulled out of the event. He swam 1:56.96 in the semifinal, breaking the previous Canadian national record of 1:57.34, and went on to finish eighth in the final. "I was in the shower and I got a text that was like, 'Come to the pool, someone scratched! You're in the [semifinal]!' It was kind of random how it all happened. I hadn't made a final that meet yet. It was another chance. I took it and it worked. I wasn't even thinking about the [national] record. I wasn't even supposed to be there so I had nothing to lose and went for it. I guess it comes down to professionalism and already having a set routine so that when I'm in that situation I know exactly what to do and I'm not freaking out." (delta-optimist.com, 15 Dec 2019; cbc.ca, 25 Jul 2019)

FINDING BALANCE
In 2018 he made some lifestyle changes that he hoped would improve his work-life balance between swimming, study and friends. In 2019 he said those lifestyle changes were the source of his success. "[In 2018] I made some good changes to get a better focus in the water and better communication with my coach about what I need. [In 2019] I continued that and refined it. It's kind of like I figured out what I needed to do. The balance between life outside the pool is really helpful as well." (delta-optimist.com, 25 Jul 2019)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
He has served as a member of the Athletes' Council for Swimming Canada. (LinkedIn profile, 01 May 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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