Kylie Masse

Kylie Masse is a Canadian competitive swimmer, born on 18 January 1996, who specialises in backstroke and comes from the Windsor, Ontario area. She swam for the Windsor Essex Swim team before joining the University of Toronto, where she was named CIS swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2016. She won bronze in the 100 metre backstroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, then in 2017 won the same event at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest in a world record 58.10 seconds, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a swimming world title. She defended that title in 2019, won a 50 metre backstroke world title in 2022, collected three medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics and added a bronze in the 200 metre backstroke at the 2024 Games, making her a five-time Olympic medallist and a three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist.