16 Facts About Joshua Liendo

Joshua Liendo Edwards was born on August 20,2002 and is a Canadian competitive swimmer who is an Olympic silver medalist.

Joshua Liendo is the first Black Canadian swimmer to win an individual medal at a major international championship.

Joshua Liendo was born in Toronto, Ontario to Trinidadian parents, and spent his early childhood in Trinidad and Tobago, beginning to learn to swim there.

Joshua Liendo's family relocated to Scarborough when he was nine years old.

Joshua Liendo began club swimming with the Toronto Olympian Swim Team, before moving to the North York Aquatic Club.

At the 2017 Canadian junior championships, Joshua Liendo set an age group record in the 100 m butterfly, swimming it in 54.76 seconds, which he would later cite as the moment he knew he could go far in the sport.

Joshua Liendo was named to his first national team for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in October in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Later in the year, Joshua Liendo won three medals at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest, and for that performance was named as Swimming Canada's junior male swimmer of the year.

At a time when Swimming Canada was enjoying enormous success with its women's program while the men's program was struggling, Joshua Liendo was widely identified as perhaps the most promising emerging talent on the men's side.

Joshua Liendo competed in three individual events in Tokyo, but did not advance beyond the semi-finals in any of them.

Joshua Liendo was part of the Canadian team in the 4x100 m freestyle relay that unexpectedly qualified to the event final and the finished in fourth place, 0.60 seconds back of a bronze medal.

Joshua Liendo admitted afterward that there's been some ups and downs at these Games but I'm glad to finish it off like this against a great field.

Joshua Liendo started his 2023 season by competing at the 2023 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships, where he won the men's 100-yard butterfly title in a time of 44.11 and placed second in both the 50- and 100-yard freestyles, going 18.39 and 42.24, respectively.

At the 2023 NCAA Division I Championships, Joshua Liendo won gold in the 100-yard freestyle and silver in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterly events, and helped the Florida relay teams to three gold medals and a bronze medal in relay events.

Joshua Liendo later set a world-leading time in the 50 m freestyle, swimming a 21.80.

Joshua Liendo was fourteenth in the semi-finals of the 100 m freestyle, missing that final as well.