Josiah Binnema (born 8 November 1997) is a Canadian
swimmer
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.
Career
His first international appearance came at the
2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, where he placed 18th in the 50m
butterfly
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, 6th in the 4x100
metre medley relay, and 11th in the 100-m butterfly setting a new Junior Canadian Record of 53.86. He competed in the
, placing 37th in the Men's 50 metre butterfly, 34th in the Men's 100 metre butterfly and 12th in 4x100 metre medley relay. In the
2018 Commonwealth Games
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Binnema managed 12th in the Men’s 200
backstroke
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, 9th in the Men’s 50 butterfly, 5th in the Men’s 100 butterfly final and 4th in the 4x100 medley relay.
In
Tokyo
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for the
2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Binnema swam four races. He swam the Men’s 200 metre backstroke placing 18th, the Men’s 100 metre butterfly where he placed 11th, and the 4x100 medley relay, in which the team placed 5th overall.
Binnema’s best performance came in the 4x100 Mixed Medley relay, where he swam 51.56 seconds on the butterfly leg of the relay, which is the second fastest split in Canadian history.
The
2019 World Championships in
Gwangju, Korea only saw one appearance from Binnema which was Men’s 100 metre butterfly where he placed 24th.
Heats results
/ref> Later that month Binnema swam the Men’s 50 butterfly and Men’s 100 butterfly in the 2019 FINA Swimming World Cup.
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1997 births
Living people
Canadian male butterfly swimmers
Canadian male swimmers
Commonwealth Games swimmers for Canada
Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers from Edmonton
Vancouver College alumni
21st-century Canadian sportsmen