Summer time McIntosh received her second gold medal and made Canadian historical past on Sunday on the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
The 16-year-old from Toronto captured the world title within the girls’s 400-metre particular person medley last for her fourth-career gold medal at worlds, probably the most by any Canadian swimmer.
McIntosh completed in 4 minutes 27.11 seconds, the third-fastest time in historical past. The Canadian got here into the occasion holding the world document within the occasion (4:25.87) which she set in Toronto in April at nationwide trials.
“Going into tonight I simply needed to see how exhausting I may push myself,” McIntosh stated.
American Katie Grimes, the silver medallist, completed greater than 4 seconds behind McIntosh in 4:31.41. Australia’s Jenna Forrester took bronze in 4:32.30.
WATCH | McIntosh cruises to 400m IM gold:
Toronto teenager Summer time McIntosh simply wins gold within the girls’s 400 particular person medley with a championship document of 4:27.11.
McIntosh seized the lead within the opening leg and received going away.
The win additionally means McIntosh repeated her historic double from final yr’s worlds in Budapest. She received the ladies’s 200m butterfly and 400m particular person medley to develop into the primary Canadian swimmer to seize a number of gold medals on the identical world championships.
McIntosh efficiently defended her world title within the 200m butterfly on Thursday.
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Not lengthy after the gruelling 400m IM race, McIntosh anchored Canada’s girls’s 4x100m medley relay workforce to a bronze-medal win.
Kylie Masse, Sophie Angus, Maggie Mac Neil, and McIntosh completed the race in 3:54.12.
“Doing it collectively as a workforce, it means the world,” McIntosh informed CBC Sports activities’ Devin Heroux.
The rationale I’m nonetheless swimming are [my teammates]. They’re those that preserve pushing me.— Canadian swimmer Sophie Angus, who practically left aggressive swimming in March 2022
Angus swam 1:06.2 within the breaststroke, second quickest since Annamay Pierse’s Canadian document efficiency of 1:05.74 in July 2009.
“It’s fairly cool. I acquired to satisfy Annamay a month or two in the past, so she’s inspiring,” stated Angus, who has her first world medal after practically quitting aggressive swimming in March 2022. She identified the dream of incomes a world medal and qualify for the Summer time Video games saved her motivated.
“The rationale I’m nonetheless swimming are [my relay teammates],” Angus added. “They’re those that preserve pushing me. I’m very glad I made that option to nonetheless be right here and searching ahead to subsequent yr.”
WATCH | Canada’s girls’s 100m relay workforce picks up bronze in Fukuoka:
Kylie Masse, Sophie Angus, Maggie McNeil and Summer time McIntosh end third within the last occasion of the world aquatics championships, within the girls’s 4x100m medley relay.
Masse has tied Penny Oleksiak for probably the most long-course (50-metre) world medals by a Canadian with 9.
“It hasn’t been straightforward,” she stated, “however having the ability to get up right here on the final night time [of competition] with these ladies is one thing I’ll keep in mind eternally.”
The People took gold in 3:52.08 whereas Australia took silver in 3:53.37.
Canada’s Javier Acevedo, James Dergousoff, Josh Liendo, and Ruslan Gaziev completed seventh within the last of the 4x100m medley relay with a time of 3:32.61.
The U.S. took gold in 3:27.20, whereas China (3:29.00) and Australia (3:29.62) took silver and bronze, respectively.
The highest three finishers in each relays certified for the Paris Olympics.
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Sjöström units one other document
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden made historical past along with her victory within the girls’s 50 freestyle. The gold gave Sjostrom 21 medals in particular person races on the planet championships, surpassing Michael Phelps who had 20.
Sjostrom, who set the world document within the semifinals on Saturday, powered house within the last 25 metres for the win, clocking 23.62. Shayna Jack of Australia picked up the silver in 24.10, whereas Zhang Yufei of China earned the bronze in 24.15.
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania set a brand new world document on the best way to successful gold within the girls’s 50 breaststroke in 29.16. Meilutyte grabbed the early lead and was by no means challenged.
American Lilly King claimed the silver in 29.94, whereas Benedetta Pilato of Italy picked up the bronze in 30.04.
Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia added the lads’s 1,500 free gold to the 800 free he received earlier within the worlds, prevailing in an epic battle with Bobby Finke of america that went right down to the wire.
The 20-year-old Hafnaoui captured the gold in 14:31.54, with Finke clocking 14:31.59 for silver. Sam In need of Australia rounded out the rostrum with the bronze in 14:37.28.
Quick led from early within the race till the 950-metre mark when Finke moved briefly in entrance. Shortly thereafter, Hafnaoui went forward and retained the lead the remainder of the best way, narrowly touching earlier than Finke on the end.