Chantal van Landeghem

Chantal Jean van Landeghem (born March 5, 1994) is a Canadian competition swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly events. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the women's 4 x 100 m relay, this was Canada's first relay medal in that event for forty years. Van Landeghem is the reigning 100-metre freestyle and 4 × 100-metre freestyle champion in the Pan American Games, setting games records in both events. Van Landeghem is currently studying and competing through the University of Georgia. She was a competitor for Manitoba at the 2009 Canada Summer Games where she won two gold, a silver, and a bronze medal.

Career Van Landeghem next competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships for Canada where she helped the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay team place sixth. Van Landeghem also competed at the 2011 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships where she won a silver in the 100-metre freestyle and the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay for Canada as well as bronze medals in the 50-metre backstroke and butterfly. Van Landeghem then repeated the upset over Coughlin, this time in the 4 × 100 freestyle relay where she beat the American again in a closer finish while setting another games record. In the women's 4 x 100 m relay she helped the Canadian women to the third seed in the final. The final saw the more of the best swimmer's join their competitors as well as the Canadians. Van Landeghem swam with Penny Oleksiak, Taylor Ruck, Michelle Williams and Sandrine Mainville. Together they won the bronze medal in the final behind Australia and the United States. The medal was Canada's first women's relay medal at the Olympics in 40 years. An elated van Landeghem said after the race that "We belong here and we belong on that podium. "I'm just so excited right now, I'm so proud of these girls and I hope we made Canada proud tonight."

Her next medal came in the form of a bronze medal while competing in the mixed 4 × 100 m medley while swimming the anchor and freestyle leg at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships semi-finals for the Canadian team. She did not compete in the final though, instead Yuri Kisil swam the freestyle there in a tactical move, as the only male against a slate of female competitors. Kisil touched in a tie with the Chinese team for third.

She retired from competitive swimming in December 2017.

Personal Van Landeghem was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and began swimming at the Manta Swim Club based in the Pan Am Pool from the age of 4. Upon graduating high school she was recruited by the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team and lived in Athens, Georgia while she completed her degree in psychology.

Personal bests Long course (50 m pool)

EventTimeVenueDateNotes 50 m butterfly 26.85 Lima 18 Aug 2011 100 m butterfly 1:00.43 Montreal 10 Jul 2009 50 m freestyle 24.39 Kazan, Russia 9 Aug 2015 Canadian Record 100 m freestyle 53.83 Toronto 14 July 2015 Pan Am Games record 200 m freestyle 2:04.59 Charlotte 14 May 2011

Short course (25 m pool) EventTimeVenueDateNotes 50 m freestyle 23.85 Eindhoven 7 Aug 2013 100 m freestyle 52.87 Berlin 11 Aug 2013