Danica Ludlow was able to honour late coach Randy Bennett with a win in the women's 400-metre freestyle at the Canadian swimming championships on Saturday.
The 18-year-old Ludlow won the race in four minutes 14.86 seconds. Molly Gowans earned silver in 4:15.15.
"I know that Hilary (Caldwell) and Ryan (Cochrane) and Jeremy (Bagshaw) are over in Kazan swimming for him right now (at the world championships)," said Ludlow. "I saw Hilary post on Facebook that she hoped that he was watching. I definitely wanted the same thing tonight. Hopefully, he was. He's a big part of the reason I'm still swimming today. It's pretty big for me."
Bennett died in April of cancer and was the long-time head coach of the Swimming Canada High Performance Centre in Victoria.
Keegan Zanatta captured the men's 400 freestyle in 3:54.52.
Anders Klein won the men's 200 backstroke, edging Oleg Garasymovytch by one-hundredth of a second. Kylie Masse took the women's event in 2:09.70.
Coleman Allen won double-gold after sharing first place in the men's 100 butterfly and helping the UBC Dolphins' 4x100 relay team with Stefan Milosevic, Luke Peddie and Marshal Parker.
Penny Oleksiak finished first in the women's 100 butterfly while Jason Block and Rebecca Terejko collected 50 breaststroke titles.
The Montreal Aquatic Club quartet of Arianne Mainville, Marie-Lou Lapointe, Sarah-Lee Hevey and Frederique Cigna combined for a winning 4x100 women's relay time of 3:47.55.
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