Olympic gold medallist Summer time McIntosh of Canada celebrates holding a flag after profitable Ladies’s 400m Ind. Medley, Paris La Protection Enviornment, Nanterre, France, July 29, 2024. — Reuters
MONTREAL: Summer time McIntosh bagged her third world document in days on Wednesday, clocking 4min 23.65sec to higher her personal 400 medley document on the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria.
The 18-year-old Canadian prodigy, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, laid down one other spectacular marker forward of subsequent month’s World Championships in Singapore with a dominant efficiency.
McIntosh’s blistering time beat her outdated mark of 4:24.38 set in Toronto in Could final 12 months on the Canadian Olympic trials.
McIntosh’s assault on her personal world document acquired off to a easy begin, with {the teenager} finishing the opening butterfly leg at a world document tempo.
She was greater than a second forward of the world document on the midway stage, and though that margin dropped to one-tenth of a second after the breaststroke, she produced an electrifying freestyle down the stretch to finish a scintillating efficiency.
“Going into tonight, I knew I could do something really special because this has probably been the best meet of my career,” McIntosh mentioned afterwards in a pool deck interview.
“World records are made to be broken. So by the time I leave this sport, I want to make sure that that record is as fast as possible.
“That actually retains me going, as a result of I do know there’s all the time going to be the following technology of youngsters rising up, and they will be chasing the document. So I’ve gotta give them my greatest effort to see how lengthy it might probably stand.”
Wednesday’s record-breaking show was the newest entry to a powerful catalogue of performances she has produced this week in British Columbia.
On Saturday, she smashed the ladies’s 400m freestyle document, slicing greater than a second off Australian star Ariarne Titmus’s world greatest from 2023.
She then clocked the third-fastest 800m freestyle in historical past on Sunday, earlier than diving again into the pool on Monday to obliterate Hungarian nice Katinka Hosszu’s decade-old 200m medley world document.
McIntosh, who gold medals within the 200m butterfly, 200m medley and 400m medley finally 12 months’s Paris Olympics, will now head to subsequent month’s worlds aiming so as to add to her assortment of 4 world championship gold medals.
