Summer McIntosh broke her own world record in the 400-meter individual medley at the Canadian Olympic Swimming Games on Thursday night.
McIntosh, a 17-year-old who trains in Sarasota, Florida, ran a time of 4:24.38, bettering the previous record of 4:25.87 set in April 2023 at the same venue, Pan Am Sports Center in Toronto.
She is currently 1.98 seconds faster than the second-fastest time in history, 2016 Olympic gold medalist Katinka Hossu of Hungary.
McIntosh won world titles in swimming's decathlon, the IM400m, in 2022 and 2023. American Katie Grimes won silver in both races.
McIntosh is a two-time world champion in the 200m butterfly and is also the second fastest woman in history in both the 400m and 800m freestyle.
Her main events are the 400m IM, 200m fly and 400m free. She swam the 200m IM at the Paris Olympics and also managed to swim at least one relay. She is not expected to swim 800 meters free in Paris.
In the 400m free on the first night of medal contention in Paris, she could join a showdown with the event's two previous Olympic gold medalists, Arialne Titmus of Australia and Katie Ledecki of the United States. be. They are the three fastest women in the history of this event.
Titmus took back the 400m free world record from McIntosh at the world championships last July. Ledecky won the silver medal, followed by New Zealand's Erica Fairweather, and McIntosh finished fourth.
Her mother, McIntosh, who finished ninth in the 200m fly for Canada at the 1984 Olympics, celebrated her second birthday the day after Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. . She reportedly has a cat named Mikey, named after Phelps.
When McIntosh was 10 or 11, she put Ledecky's words on a poster on her bedroom wall. She said it was something like this: “Every race is a sprint. Some are longer than others.”
She made her debut at the Tokyo Olympics at the age of 14, finishing fourth in the 400m free. According to OlyMADMen, she is the youngest Canadian Olympian in any sport since 1988.
Summer McIntosh, an Olympic swimmer from Canada, is challenging Katie Ledecky while still in high school.
