Gold medallist Summer season McIntosh of Canada celebrates holding a flag after successful Ladies’s 400m Ind. Medley, Paris La Protection Area, Nanterre, France, July 29, 2024. — Reuters
MONTREAL: Summer season McIntosh smashed the decade-old world report within the ladies’s 200m particular person medley on Monday, touching the wall in 2min 05.70sec for her second report on the Canadian swimming trials.
The 18-year-old eclipsed Hungarian Katinka Hosszu’s mark of two:06.12 set on the 2015 World Championships to develop into the primary lady to duck beneath 2:06.
It was triple Olympic gold medallist McIntosh’s second world report of the meet following her 400m freestyle world report on Saturday.
The gifted Canadian teenager had additionally impressed throughout Sunday’s victory within the 800m freestyle, clocking the third-fastest time in historical past in an occasion not sometimes thought to be her strongest.
But McIntosh confirmed no indicators of fatigue with one other dazzling efficiency to thrill the gang in British Columbia on Monday.
“Overall really happy with that time and always just trying to keep pushing forward,” McIntosh stated after her record-breaking show.
“It’s awesome. 200IM is my main race out of my top five or six races where I really have to execute perfectly.
“There isn’t any room for errors and it is form of a dash occasion for me, so I am actually proud of that. It provides me plenty of confidence heading into Singapore,” added McIntosh, referring to next month’s World Championships.
Asked how she had prepared herself for Monday’s effort after a gruelling weekend, she added: “Simply recovering, sleeping as a lot as potential and consuming loads.
“And also mentally calming myself down and taking it one race at a time.
“I’ve had plenty of observe at that these previous few years.”
McIntosh laid the foundations for her assault on the report with flawless opening sections within the butterfly and backstroke earlier than an improved breaststroke — her weakest self-discipline — left her on world report tempo.
From there she turned on the after-burners within the closing freestyle to obliterate Hosszu’s report.
Mary-Sophie Harvey trailed in second in 2:08.78 with Ashley McMillan third in 2:12.08.
