Jade Hannah

Jade Hannah
Personal information
Nickname(s) Jadey
Nationality Bermudian/ Canadian
Born January 24, 2002 (2002-01-24) (age 16)
Paget, Bermuda
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club Halifax Trojan Club[1]
Coach Ryan Mallette

Jade Hannah is a Canadian swimmer. She competed at the 2017 World Junior Swimming Championships in Indianapolis where she was part of a Canadian team that set the junior world record and championship record in the girl's 4×100 m medley. In total Hannah won 4 medals at the world junior championships, including three gold and one bronze. She is the reigning junior co-world champion in the 50 m backstroke and won a bronze in the 100 m backstroke.[2] At the age of 14 in September 2016, Hannah and her mother made the move from her hometown Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia in order to train with Swimming NextGen, she now trains in the High Performance centre under Ryan Mallette at one of Canada's elite training facilities for the country's top swimmers.[2]

Career

In September 2017, Hannah was named to Canada's 2018 Commonwealth Games team.[3][4]

Personal bests

Long course (50 m pool)

Event Time[1] Venue Date Notes
50 m backstroke 27.93 2017 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 27 August 2017
100 m backstroke 59.62 2017 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 24 August 2017
200 m backstroke 2:10.44 2017 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 25 August 2017

Short course (25 m pool)

Event Time[1] Venue Date Notes
50 m backstroke 27.09 Ontario Junior International 15 December 2017
100 m backstroke 58.22 Ontario Junior International 16 December 2017
200 m backstroke 2:06.65 Ontario Junior International 17 December 2017

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jade Hannah profile". Swimming Canada. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  2. 1 2 Paul Palmeter (August 28, 2017). "Nova Scotian swims to gold medal at World Junior Championships". CBC Sports.
  3. ↑ "Swimming Canada Nominates 26 Athletes to Canada's 2018 Commonwealth Games Team". www.swimming.ca/. Swimming Canada. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Oleksiak, Masse headline Canadian swim team for Commonwealth Games". www.cbc.ca/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). 26 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
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