Rhiannon leier olympic games

Her coach from Winnipeg suggested that she could make the Olympic team if she dedicated herself to the year of preparation. Prior to that she says she never really believed she was good enough to make the national team — her best national ranking was fourth and to make the Olympic team you had to be top two with a qualifying time she was almost 2 seconds off.

Really, in the end, it is just that belief that already the talent was there. I just needed someone to find it and fine tune it. Now retired, she gives back by supporting current athletes as they navigate the emotional and physical loads that elite sport places on them. Rhiannon Leier Blacher. Episode Rhiannon Leier Blacher December 14, minutes. Description Inspired by the Olympics, Rhiannon started swimming at a club in Saskatoon at age seven.

Please enjoy our Heroes conversation with Rhiannon Leier Blacher. Previous Ep. Leier-Blacher went on to place 11 th in the m breastroke at the Sydney Games. She trained another quadrennial and qualified for the Olympics in Athens placing 12 th in the m breastroke.

In Canada, she won 13 Canadian titles and set four national senior records in the 50m and m breastroke and the 4x50m medley relay. She was named the Canadian Female Swimmer of the Year in It was fitting she began her international career at the Olympics because she started swimming because of the Olympics in the first place.

The swimming community has been a second family to Leier-Blacher. She and husband John Blacher have their son Jackson, 9, and daughter Sadie, 6, in swimming.