Summer McIntosh finishes sturdy at world swimming championships, snatching fourth gold

Despite making historical past Sunday, Summer McIntosh is feeling extra motivated than ever.

McIntosh capped a dominant world swimming championships together with her fourth gold medal, successful the ladies’s 400-metre particular person medley in championship-record time. The 18-year-old from Toronto touched the wall in 4 minutes 25.78 seconds, nicely forward of Australia’s Jenna Forrester and Japan’s Mio Narita, who tied for silver in 4:33.26.

It was McIntosh’s fifth total medal at these championships alone, making her the second girl ever to perform the feat alongside Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom in 2019 (one gold, two silver, two bronze).

McIntosh can also be the second girl to ever win 4 golds at a single championships alongside American Katie Ledecky (2015).

“I think it was very obvious that my goal was five golds. I just wanted to get my hand on the wall the first five times I fell short of that,” stated McIntosh. “I think it’s just going to keep me hungry and push me more than any other meet ever.

“And that says a lot, and the things I’m learning about the most is going to make me hungry moving into next season and into L.A.”

McIntosh additionally claimed gold within the 200 butterfly, 200 medley and 400 freestyle in Singapore.

Everything it’s essential learn about Summer McIntosh as she dominates the World Aquatics Championships

Her bid for a file 5 golds ended Saturday as Ledecky gained the 800 freestyle forward of Australia’s Lani Pallister. McIntosh settled for bronze within the occasion.

McIntosh now has 13 profession medals on the world championships — probably the most of any Canadian ever — together with eight gold.

Also Sunday, Canada’s males’s 4×100 medley relay workforce positioned fifth, whereas the ladies’s 4×100 medley relay workforce, which included McIntosh, completed fifth within the closing occasion of the meet.

McIntosh accounted for 5 of Canada’s eight swimming medals on the world aquatics championships. Adding to the tally had been Montreal’s Ilya Kharun within the males’s 100 butterfly, Mary-Sophie Harvey, of Laval, Que., within the girls’s 200 particular person medley, and the 4×100 combined medley relay workforce – all incomes bronze.

Montreal’s Simone Leathead added a silver within the girls’s 20-metre excessive dive, her first profession medal at worlds.