Canada's Ruck wins 200-yard freestyle at NCAA championships; transgender swimmer Thomas finishes 5th

Two-time Canadian Olympian Taylor Ruck won her first individual NCAA swimming title for Stanford on Friday, leading wire-to-wire in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:41.12 at the NCAA Division I women's swimming and diving championships in Atlanta.

Ruck won two bronze medals at the Rio Olympics in 2016 before adding another bronze and a silver last summer at the Tokyo Games.

Top-seed Lia Thomas of Penn tied for fifth. She became the first known transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship with a victory in the 500 freestyle on Thursday.

A 1-4-8 finish for the Cardinal in the 200 free!<br><br>1. Ruck- 1:41.12<br>4. Lillie Nordmann- 1:42.63<br>8. Tankersley- 1:43.78<br><br>