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Oleksiak wins 50m freestyle, McIntosh qualifies in fifth event at Olympic swim trials

Summer McIntosh and Penny Oleksiak headline the Olympic swim team nominees going to Paris this summer.

McIntosh qualified in five individual events at the now-completed Olympic & Paralympic Trials. The 17-year-old Toronto athlete has a spot in the 400-metre freestyle, 200 freestyle, 400 individual medley, 200 butterfly and the 200 medley.

Oleksiak, meanwhile, nears Olympic competition having gone through a few hurdles.

She has dealt with multiple injuries over the last couple of years, including a second knee surgery during that span that she told the CBC she had four months ago. Canada's most decorated Olympian of all time with seven medals, Oleksiak won her lone gold in the 100 free in the 2016 Rio Games.

Oleksiak failed to hit the Olympic qualifying and consideration time in the 200 freestyle, finishing ninth on Tuesday. She won the 100 freestyle on Friday, getting under the consideration time but just going over the qualifying time, putting herself in position to compete for the 4x100 freestyle relay team.

The 23-year-old Toronto native followed that up with a win in the 50 freestyle on Sunday but didn't get under the qualifying or consideration time for the event.

Each country can enter a maximum of two athletes per individual event with the deadline to go under the qualifying time at an approved World Aquatics competition being June 23.

WATCH: Oleksiak wins 50m free:

"The focus was just to see how good I could get my 50, I'm not a 50 freestyler," Oleksiak said. "It's just kind of practice for the front end of my 100. I still have until June 23 to hit that eight cut to swim individually in the 100.

"So I'm just trying to make that stronger and hopefully I could get that eight cut by June 23."

Oleksiak can

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