Ingrid Wilm leads Canadian podium charge at Mare Nostrum Swim Tour in Barcelona

Calgary's Ingrid Wilm is quickly emerging as a new swimming powerhouse for Canada. 

The backstroke specialist won her fourth medal at the Mare Nostrum Swim Tour, capturing gold in the 100-metre back Thursday in Barcelona by finishing in one minute and two-hundredths of a second.

The 22-year-old also won gold on Wednesday, posting a fastest time of 27.76 in the 50m back. Wilm also won silver in the 50m back and then bronze in the 100m back this past weekend in France. 

It was a double podium finish in the women's 100m fly for Canada. Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil won silver in a time of 57.83 and Katerine Savard captured bronze in 58.77.

Finlay Knox won a fourth medal on the day for Canada in the 200m individual medley, grabbing bronze by stopping the clock in a time of 1:59.12.

Closing out the Canadian medal haul on Thursday was Burlington, Ont., swimmer Ella Jansen who won bronze in the 200m freestyle final in a time of 1:58.09. 

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Canadian swimmers won eight medals over two days of competition in Barcelona, including the five on Thursday. This is all part of the annual Mare Nostrum Tour that started last weekend in France, had a two-day stop in Spain before finishing in Monaco this weekend.

About 18 swimmers from Canada have been in Spain since early May. There was a training camp ahead of the Mare Nostrum. 

This is the last international meet for many of the high performance swimmers from Canada ahead of the world championships later this summer.

Ruslan Gaziev, originally from Moscow but living in Toronto, stopped the clock in a time of 49.29 for a fifth-place finish in the 100m free. 

Canada's most decorated Olympian Penny Oleksiak is part of the group in Spain. 

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