Sydney’s Bio

• At the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Pickrem won two gold medals in the 200 individual medley, breaking a Pan American Games record in a time of 2:09.04, and stood atop of the podium in 200 breaststroke. She also was part of the preliminary 4×200 relay that would go on to win bronze in the final.
• In Melbourne, Australia, at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Pickrem helped her team reach the podium to capture silver in the 4×200 freestyle and bronze in the 4×100 medley relay. She was also part of the fourth-place team that broke the Canadian record in the 4×50 medley.
• Pickrem had three individual second-place finishes on home soil at the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup in Toronto, taking silver in the women’s 200 breaststroke, 200 medley and 400 medley.
• At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Pickrem swam the breaststroke leg of the 4×100-m medley relay that broke the Canadian record and brought home bronze. Pickrem also swam in the preliminaries for the women’s 4×200-m freestyle relay that finished fourth in the final. Individually, Pickrem finished sixth in the 200-m individual medley.
• At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Pickrem swam in both the 200-m and 400-m individual medley where she finished 6^th and 12^th.
• At the 2021 FINA World Championships (25m), Pickrem won gold in the 200-m individual medley and swam the breaststroke leg of the 4×100-m medley that captured silver and broke the Canadian record. Pickrem was a part the 4×50-m medley team that lowered the Canadian record and finished fourth. She also swam in the preliminaries for the women’s 4×200-m freestyle that went on to win gold.
• Sydney Pickrem captured three bronze medals at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, Korea. She earned bronze in the 200-m breaststroke, 200-m individual medley and the women’s 4×100-m medley that set a Canadian record. She also finished fourth in the 400-m individual medley.
• Pickrem defeated the defending Olympic and world champion, Katinka Hosszu, in the 200-m individual medley at the 2020 FINA Champions Series in Beijing. Her performance broke Hosszu’s 56-race winning streak in the 200 IM, across long- and short-course swimming events.
• At the 2022 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Pickrem finished 11^th in the 200-m individual medley.
• At the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Pickrem won a bronze medal in the 400-m individual medley with a personal best time.
• Pickrem captured silver and broke her own Canadian record in the 200-m individual medley at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships. She also finished fifth in the 200-m breaststroke.
• At the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Pickrem made a big splash when she earned a bronze and a silver in the 200-m and 400-m medley.
• At the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Pickrem finished sixth in the 200-m medley along with a 14^th-place finish in the 400-m medley.
• At the 2018 Canadian Swimming Trials, Pickrem won gold in the 200-m individual medley qualifying her for the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo.
• At the 2016 Olympic & Para-swimming Trials in Toronto, Pickrem won the 200-m and 400-m individual medley to qualify for her first Olympic Games.
• Pickrem made her first senior national team in 2014. Her highlight that summer was an eighth-place finish in the 200-m individual medley at the Commonwealth Games.
• In 2013, she represented Canada at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January where she won four medals. At the 2013 FINA World Junior Championships in Dubai, Pickrem won a bronze in the 200-m IM.
• Sydney Pickrem broke the Canadian record in the 200 and 400-m IM at ISL 2020
• She comes by her athletic talent naturally since her father Darren played professional hockey.
• Her parents are from Halifax but she was born in Dunedin, Fla.

Quick Facts

• Twitter: @sydneypickrem
• Instagram: @sydneypickrem8
• Favourite Movie: Elf
• Favourite TV Show: Friends
• Favourite Actor/Actress: Sandra Bullock
• Favourite Restaurant: Cheesecake Factory
• Other Sport: Football
• Pre-race meal: Chicken Parm
• Favourite Place to visit: Prince Edward Island