MONTREAL
\nSummer McIntosh bagged her third world record in days on Wednesday, clocking 4min 23.65sec to better her own 400 medley record at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria.
\nThe 18-year-old Canadian prodigy, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, laid down another impressive marker ahead of next month\u2019s World Championships in Singapore with a dominant performance. McIntosh\u2019s blistering time beat her old mark of 4:24.38 set in Toronto in May last year at the Canadian Olympic trials.
\nMcIntosh\u2019s assault on her own world record got off to a smooth start, with the teenager completing the opening butterfly leg in world record pace.
\nShe was more than a second ahead of the world record at the halfway stage, and although that margin dropped to one-tenth of a second after the breaststroke, she produced an electrifying freestyle down the stretch to complete a scintillating performance.
\n\u201cGoing into tonight, I knew I could do something really special because this has probably been the best meet of my career,\u201d McIntosh said afterwards in a pool deck interview.
\n\u201cWorld 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.
\n\u201cThat really keeps me going, because I know there\u2019s always going to be the next generation of kids growing up, and they\u2019re going to be chasing the record. So I\u2019ve gotta give them my best effort to see how long it can stand.\u201d
\nWednesday\u2019s record-breaking display was the latest entry to an impressive catalogue of performances she has produced this week in British Columbia.On Saturday, she smashed the women\u2019s 400m freestyle record, slicing more than a second off Australian star Ariarne Titmus\u2019s world best from 2023.
\nShe then clocked the third fastest 800m freestyle in history on Sunday, before diving back into the pool on Monday to obliterate Hungarian great Katinka Hosszu\u2019s decade-old 200m medley world record. McIntosh, who gold medals in the 200m butterfly, 200m medley and 400m medley at last year\u2019s Paris Olympics, will now head to next month\u2019s worlds aiming to add to her collection of four world championship gold medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MONTREAL Summer McIntosh bagged her third world record in days on Wednesday, clocking 4min 23.65sec to better her own 400 medley record at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria. The 18-year-old Canadian prodigy, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, laid down another impressive marker ahead of next month\u2019s World Championships in Singapore with a dominant performance. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n