- VICTORIA — The triple Olympic champion swimmer Summer McIntosh has shattered
the world record in the 200m individual medley, rewriting Hungarian legend
Katinka Hosszu's decade-old mark.
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- McIntosh, who won three gold medals at the 2024 Olympic
in Paris, clocked 2 minutes, 5.70 seconds on Monday at the Canadian trials for
the World Championships in Singapore in July and August.
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- She split 57.99 on the opening 100 to be .95 ahead of the
world record pace at the halfway mark, only to fall off the a bit on the
breaststroke leg. McIntosh trailed Hosszu’s world record pace by .14 heading
into the final 50 before racing home in 29.95 to shatter the old record.
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- "It's awesome and 200m IM I think is my main race
out of my top five, six races where I really have to execute perfectly,”
McIntosh said.
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- McIntosh broke her second world record in the meet’s
first three days. She demolished the 400m freestyle world record on Saturday in
3:54.18 to open the qualifiers. Then on Sunday, she swam the third-fastest 800m
free in history, trailing only Katie Ledecky’s top two times.
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- The 18-year-old Canadian was previously the third-fastest
200m IMer in history thanks to her 2:06.56 to win Paris Olympic gold. With
Monday’s time, she passed American Ariana Kukors, who swam 2:06.15 at the 2009
Worlds, and Hosszu.
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- "Breaststroke has always been my weakest so getting
through that 50, just trying to get to the wall and knowing that I'll be really
strong in that last 50 because my freestyle has been great here so far.
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- “Overall I'm really happy with that time and I always
just trying to keep pushing forward but I'll have to look over my splits to see
where my breaststroke was but happy with it," McIntosh, who will swim the
200m butterfly on Tuesday, said.
