PICKREM Sydney

Date of Birth: 21 May 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Place of birth: TAMPA, FL

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : TORONTO, ON

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 200m Breaststroke
	Women's 200m Individual Medley	6
	Women's 400m Individual Medley
	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay CAN Canada	4
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay CAN Canada	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 400m Individual Medley - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke - Heat 3	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	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200IndMed	400IndMed
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6th (2:11.22)	H (4:38.06)

World Championships

Year	Location	200Breast	200IndMed	400IndMed	4x100Medley W
2019	Gwangju, KOR	3rd (2:22.90)	3rd (2:08.70)	4th (4:36.72)	3rd (3:53.58)
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	8th (DSQ)	3rd (4:32.88)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	6th (2:10.32)	H (4:40.60)	-

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	200Breast	200IndMed
2018	Tokyo, JPN	5th (2:24.73)	2nd (2:09.07)

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

Year	200Back	100Breast	200Breast	200IndMed
2020	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th	2 x 4th	2 x 4th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
2019	-	-	-	1 x 2nd

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	200m Individual Medley	Beijing, CHN	2:09.26
2	2020	200m Individual Medley	Shenzhen, CHN	2:10.84
2	2019	200m Individual Medley	Indianapolis, IN, USA	2:08.61
3	2020	200m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	2:12.78
4	2020	200m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	2:13.30
4	2020	100m Breaststroke	Beijing, CHN	1:10.12
4	2020	100m Breaststroke	Shenzhen, CHN	1:09.59
4	2020	200m Breaststroke	Beijing, CHN	2:30.31
4	2020	200m Breaststroke	Shenzhen, CHN	2:29.36

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

Syd (olympic.ca, 27 Mar 2016)

Occupation:

Physiology - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Languages spoken:

Toronto Swim Club [Canada]

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

Sporting relatives:

Her father Darren played ice hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League [QMJHL]. (olympic.ca, 27 Mar 2016)

In May 2012 she suffered an injury to her ankle that meant she was unable to do any breaststroke training for three months. (tampabay.com, 12 Dec 2012)

She began swimming at age six at East Lake Woodlands Country Club in Oldsmar, FL, United States of America. (floridaswimnetwork.com, 29 Aug 2013)

Her brother was a swimmer and she also wanted to try the sport. (olympic.ca, 27 Mar 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (swimming.ca, 07 Apr 2019)

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

Philosophy:

"We always say it's who wants it more, and that's the mentality in the end - it's just trying to get your hand on the wall first." (CBC Sports YouTube channel, 26 Jul 2019)

While representing Texas A&M University [TAMU], she was named 2019 Southeastern Conference Swimmer of the Year in the United States of America. That year she was also named TAMU Female Swimmer of the Year. (dulcedo.com, 15 Mar 2020; texags.com, 16 Apr 2019; secsports.com, 11 Apr 2019)

She was named 2012 Youth Swimmer of the Year by Swimming Canada. (islandswimming.com, 25 Nov 2012)

General Interest

General
MEDLEY STRATEGY
She said she approaches the first half of the 200m individual medley [IM] differently to the second, primarily because she believes butterfly, the first stroke of the medley, is her weakest. "To get through the first hundred for me it's like, 'Okay, the race really starts'. I get nervous, but I get more excited as I finish my first hundred, just because I know everything is getting stronger as I go. I can see in my peripherals who's next to me, but I just try and stay in my own race because I know I swim IM differently than a lot of people. You can't get wrapped up in what someone else is doing just because you never know what their strong stroke is and their weak stroke is. [The second half of the race] is where I'm definitely a racer. With my times in my last hundred split, I've felt like crap sometimes, I've felt so bad in the water and I've swum my best swims, or I've felt so good in the water and I did not swim very well. So I just try not to think about it." (CBC Sports YouTube channel, 26 Jul 2019)

DUAL NATIONALITY
Born in the United States of America, she has both US and Canadian citizenship. Her parents are from Halifax, NS, Canada. (tampabay.com, 19 Sep 2013; swimming.ca, 29 Aug 2013)

FUTURE CAREER
After she finishes competitive swimming she is interested in pursuing a career in physical therapy. (swimming.ca, 01 Sep 2019)

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Legend

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

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