Noemie Thomas


Noemie Thomas is a Canadian swimmer who competes in the women's butterfly competitions. She holds the [List of Canadians|Canadian records in swimming|Canadian national record] in the butterfly over the 50 m in the short course. Thomas also holds the Canadian junior butterfly record in the 100 m.
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Career

The Richmond, B.C., native made a big splash at the 2012 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in August in Hawaii. She took gold in the 100-metre butterfly, silver in the 4x100-m medley relay and finished fourth in the 200-m fly.
Noemie Thomas had her senior international coming-out party at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), held in December. She set and then beat her own Canadian record in the 50-m butterfly at the world short-course meet, finishing fourth by just 0.05 seconds in the final. She followed up by establishing a new national mark in the 100-m fly and once again finished just outside the medals in fourth.
Success continued to follow her in 2013, capped by a seventh-place finish in the 100-m butterfly at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona. She earned Swimming Canada’s 2013 Junior Female Swimmer of the Year award for her performance. She and Katerine Savard give Canada a pair of medal threats in the event.
In 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Results

  • 4th place, 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships, 50 m butterfly.
  • 4th place, 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships, 100 m butterfly.
  • 7th place, 2013 FINA World Championships, 100 m butterfly.

Personal best times

Short course

EventTimeVenueDateNotes
50 m butterfly25.60Istanbul, TurkeyDecember 16, 2012List of Canadian records in swimming
100 m butterfly56.64Istanbul, TurkeyDecember 15, 2012
200 m butterfly2.08.11New Westminster, Canada.February 16, 2014