Summer McIntosh wins gold at 400M particular person medley at swimming world championships

SINGAPORE – 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, profitable 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, properly forward of Australia’s Jenna Forrester and Japan’s Mio Narita, who tied for silver in 4:33.26.

It was McIntosh’s fifth general 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 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 believe it’s simply going to maintain me hungry and push me greater than some other meet ever.

“And that claims loads, and the issues I’m studying about essentially the most goes to make me hungry shifting into subsequent season and into L.A.”

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

Her bid for a document 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 — essentially the most of any Canadian ever — together with eight gold.

Also Sunday, Canada’s males’s 4×100 medley relay group positioned fifth, whereas the ladies’s 4×100 medley relay group, 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 have been Montreal’s Ilya Kharun within the males’s 100 butterfly, Mary-Sophie Harvey, of Laval, Que., within the ladies’s 200 particular person medley, and the 4×100 blended medley relay group — all incomes bronze.

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

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Aug. 3, 2025.