McIntosh sets second swimming world record in five days
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Sixteen-year-old Summer McIntosh has set her second swimming world record in five days while winning the 400-metres individual medley at Canada’s national trials.
The Toronto teenager won in four minutes, 25.87 seconds in her home city on Saturday night, bettering the old world mark of 4:26.36 set by Katinka Hosszu of Hungary at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
“It’s amazing to have all my family and friends in the stands, cheering me on,” she said. “It really helped me in the last hundred metres.”
McIntosh broke the world record in the 400m freestyle on Tuesday, the opening night of the trials, with her time of 3:56.08 eclipsing the mark of 3:56.40 set in May last year by Australia’s Ariarne Titmus.
McIntosh is the first person to hold long-course world records in both the 400 IM and 400 free.
She’s the first Canadian since 1984 (Alex Baumann) and first Canadian woman since 1967 (Elaine Tanner) to set two long-course world records.
The teenager, who trains in Florida, just missed setting the world record in the 200 IM on Thursday. She won in 2:06.89, just off the mark of 2:06.12.
McIntosh also won the 200 butterfly on Friday in 2:04.70.
The trials are Canada’s qualifying meet for the world championships in July in Japan.
AP
