Chantal Van Landeghem

Chantal van Landeghem
Personal information
Full name Chantal van Landeghem
National team  Canada
Born (1994-03-05) March 5, 1994
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight 120 lb (54 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club Manta Swim Club[1]
College team University of Georgia
Coach Ben Titley

Chantal van Landeghem (born March 5, 1994) is a Canadian competition swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly events. She is the reigning 100-metre freestyle and 4 × 100-metre freestyle champion in the Pan American Games, setting games records in both events. Van Landeghem is currently studying and competing through the University of Georgia.[2] She was a competitor for Manitoba at the 2009 Canada Summer Games where she won two gold, a silver, and a bronze medal.

Career

Van Landeghem next competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships for Canada where she helped the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay team place sixth. Van Landeghem also competed at the 2011 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships where she won a silver in the 100-metre freestyle and the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay for Canada as well as bronze medals in the 50-metre backstroke and butterfly.[2] Her results led to her being named the Manitoba Female Athlete of the Year for 2011. In 2013 she was named to the Senior National Team and competed in Barcelona at the FINA World Championship where she placed 9th in the 50 meter LC freestyle.[2]

At the 2015 Pan American Games, van Landeghem started in the final of the women's 100 free. There she faced off against American star Natalie Coughlin. In the final van Landeghem trailed Coughlin but pulled ahead on the final lap and upset the favourite, setting a personal best and games record in the process. She said after the race that the home crowd "got me into it. I kept saying thank you when I got out of the water because they were amazing. They really pushed me the last 15 metres. It's nothing like I've ever experienced just because it was on home soil in Canada. Seeing that flag raised, I was just overcome with so much pride."[3] Van Landeghem then repeated the upset over Coughlin, this time in the 4 × 100 freestyle relay where she beat the American again in a closer finish while setting another games record.[3] After the second upset she said "my confidence is sky-high right now. I've don't think it's ever been this high. Beating Natalie is obviously huge, but personally, a best time, that's all I could ask for. We're going into worlds in a couple weeks after this. To have these performances going into worlds is a huge confidence booster."[3]

Personal

Van Landeghem was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and began swimming at the Manta Swim Club based in the Pan Am Pool from the age of 4. Upon graduating high school she was recruited by the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team and currently lives in Athens, Georgia while she completes her degree in psychology.

Personal bests

Long course (50 m pool)

Kazan 2015
Event Time Venue Date Notes
50 m butterfly 26.85 Lima 18 Aug 2011
100 m butterfly 1:00.43 Montreal 10 Jul 2009
50 m freestyle 24.39 Kazan, Russia 9 Aug 2015 Canadian Record
100 m freestyle 53.83 Toronto 14 July 2015 Pan Am Games record
200 m freestyle 2:04.59 Charlotte 14 May 2011

Short course (25 m pool)

Event Time Venue Date Notes
50 m freestyle 23.85 Eindhoven 7 Aug 2013
100 m freestyle 52.87 Berlin 11 Aug 2013

References

  1. ↑ "Van Landeghem profile". Swim Canada. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "van Landeghem profile". Georgia Bulldogs. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Chantal Van Landeghem upsets U.S. swim star Natalie Coughlin twice". CBC Sports. July 14, 2015.
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