Canada’s Summer McIntosh, 15, wins 2nd gold medal at world aquatics

Summer McIntosh, a Canadian swimmer, won her second victory and was awarded her fourth medal at the world championships. She lowered her junior record to four minutes 32.04 seconds during Saturday’s women’s 400-metre individual Medley in Budapest, Hungary.

The 15-year-old McIntosh, who went 4:34.86 on April 9 at national trials, took the lead early in Saturday’s race and battled throughout with American Katie Grimes, who touched the wall in 4:32.67 for her second silver of these worlds after placing second in the 1,500. Emma Weyant, the 2020 Olympic gold medallist, won bronze in 4:36.00

Katinka Hosszu of Hungary had her streak of consecutive world titles in the 400 medley halted at four as she finished fourth in 4:37.89. The 33-year-old has won the race five times in her last seven appearances at worlds and still holds the world record of 4:26.36 and 4:29.33 championship mark from 2016 and 2017, respectively.

Canada’s women won bronze in the 100-medley relay, matching their 2019 worlds result.

Kylie Masse was stopped by Rachel Nichol and Maggie Mac Neil. Anchor Penny Oleksiak also stopped the clock at 3:55.01, which is behind Australia (3,53.78) or the Americans (3,54.25).

Three years ago, Sydney Pickrem, Masse, Mac Neil and Oleksiak posted a time of 3:53.58 in Gwangju, South Korea.

Saturday’s relay bronze was the national record-extending 11th medal — three gold, four silver, four bronze — for Canada at these worlds after it surpassed the mark of eight at a single world championships from 2019 on Friday.

Meanwhile, it was the second junior record in Budapest for McIntosh, who lowered her Canadian mark in the 200 butterfly on Tuesday to qualifying first for Wednesday’s final that she won at Duna Arena. The native of Kelowna (B.C.) added silver to the 400 freestyle relay and bronze to the 200 free relay.

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McIntosh, 14 years old, was the youngest Canadian Olympic team member in Tokyo last summer. But she certainly didn’t look her age at the world’s most grandest athletic stage.

She placed fourth in the 400 free, at that point lowering the Canadian record twice. She was ninth in 200 free and 11th at 800 free, setting a national record for her age group. McIntosh was also part the 200 relay team, which finished fourth in national time. McIntosh’s opening-leg swim broke Canada’s age group record.

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Summer McIntosh wins silver in the 400m freestyle at the world aquatics championships

Toronto native, Michael, finished 2nd at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Budapest (Hungary) with a time 3:59.39.

McIntosh was a star at national trials in Victoria two months ago. He won four events and swam 400 free in the fastest time this season.