Summer time McIntosh set her second world report of the week on Sunday, successful the 400m particular person medley on the Canadian Swimming Trials in 4min 25.87sec.
The 16-year-old sensation broke the report of 4:26.36 set by Hungarian Katinka Hosszu on the 2016 Rio Olympics.
McIntosh had opened the assembly, Canada’s choice meet for the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in July — with a world report within the 400m freestyle.
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Her time of three:56.08 within the 400m free broke the report of three:56.40 set final Could by Australia’s Ariarne Titmus on the Australian Championships in Adelaide — the place Titmus broke American Katie Ledecky’s six-year-old mark.
McIntosh is the youngest swimmer to interrupt an extended course swimming world report in a person Olympic occasion since Ledecky in 2013.
“Clearly it’s actually wonderful and I’m actually blissful to get one other world report,” McIntosh mentioned in an pool deck interview.
“Proper now I’m simply enthusiastic about my legs,” she added, letting her knees sag for a second earlier than including: “They damage so unhealthy.
“The 4IM is without doubt one of the hardest occasions on the market so going into tonight I simply tried to mentally put together for that,” she mentioned.
“Regardless of the time was the time can be.”
McIntosh, who gained 200m butterfly and 400m medley gold on the World Championships in Budapest final 12 months, fell behind world report tempo after the penultimate breaststroke leg of the medley closing, however rallied on the closing freestyle.
“Within the freestyle I all the time like to take a look at the clock and I feel I noticed 26.1 or one thing and I believed, simply go, go loopy,” she mentioned.
“I simply gave it every part I’ve acquired and I knew it could be shut.”
McIntosh completed fourth within the 400m freestyle on the Tokyo Olympics behind gold medallist Titmus, who mentioned dropping her report had given her an additional spurt of motivation.
“Actually having your personal world report damaged is a tricky capsule to swallow,” Titmus informed Channel 9’s Sport Sunday.
“However I feel you need to have a look at the nice in every part and it’s in all probability a superb factor it was damaged now. It offers me just a little bit of fireside within the stomach.
“I feel it’s naive to assume that the world of swimming goes to cease. It’s thrilling for our sport, it’s thrilling for the 400 freestyle.
“I feel the match-up between Summer time, Katie (Ledecky) and I is simply going to be as sturdy as ever in Paris. Time is flying. It’s solely a 12 months and a half away. It’s thrilling for the game.”
