University of Toronto swimmers Hannah Genich and Ainsley McMurray helped Canada to a bronze-medal finish in the 4 x 100 m medley relay in 4:03.32 on Wednesday night at Piscina Scandone.
Sitting in fourth after 350 metres, McMurray out-touched Russia's Mariia Baklakova by 0.23 seconds to wrap up Canada's swimming schedule at the 30th Summer Universiade. It was Team Canada's third medal of the Games and first in swimming.
"I flipped for the second 50 and I saw some white water splashing two lanes over and I was like - OK, time to go - and I just moved as fast as I could and I split the fastest I ever have in my life so I'm really proud of myself and of all the other girls too," said McMurray. "It was so exciting."
Genich swam the butterfly leg in 58.65, maintaining Canada's fourth position heading into fellow University of Toronto teammate McMurray's freestyle.
"As I saw Nina coming into the wall I was like wow - this is real, time to go," said the U of T standout. "I was definitely trying to stay to my race plan and swim my own race and trying to do it for the team. It hurt for the last 25 but it doesn't matter."
Genich and McMurray were two of six Varsity Blues competing in Naples. Matt Dans, Cam Kidd, Eli Wall and Georgia Kidd were also in action this past week.
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