Canada swimming star McIntosh clinches world 400m freestyle gold

Canadian swimming sensation Summer McIntosh obliterated her rivals to win the world 400-meter girls’s freestyle gold Sunday, with American nice Katie Ledecky third.

The 18-year-old McIntosh romped dwelling in 3 minutes 56.26 seconds, practically 2 seconds away from China’s Li Bingjie, who was adopted by Ledecky in bronze.

It was the world file holder’s first world title within the occasion as she pursues 5 particular person golds in Singapore.

On the opening evening of the meet, McIntosh and Ledecky, 28, renewed their rivalry from the Paris Olympics final summer season.

They will even meet within the 800-meter freestyle, billed as probably the most eagerly anticipated race of the championships.

McIntosh took the lead early on and by no means regarded again to demolish the remainder of the sphere, pulling more and more clear because the race progressed.

McIntosh got here to Singapore in red-hot kind.

She smashed the 400-meter freestyle world file on the Canadian trials in 3:54.18 in June.

The three-time Olympic gold medallist sliced greater than a second off the earlier world file of three:55.38 set by Australian Ariarne Titmus on the 2023 world championships.

Olympic champion Titmus shouldn’t be in Singapore as a result of she is taking a season off earlier than she dives again in to arrange for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

McIntosh received gold within the 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter medley and 400-meter medley on the Paris Olympics. She took silver within the 400-meter free.

The McIntosh household’s ardour for sport runs deep: their mom Jill competed within the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and older sister Brooke is a high pairs determine skater.