Swimming: Summer McIntosh makes an announcement with dominant girls’s 200m freestyle win on the Fort Lauderdale Open 2026

Canadian swimming famous person Summer McIntosh was untouchable on the 2026 Fort Lauderdale Open on Friday (1 May), following up her electrical 400m freestyle win with an equally spectacular encore within the girls’s 200m freestyle.

Speeding in the direction of the wall like an aquatic cheetah, {the teenager} from Toronto, Ontario, clocked 1:54.36 to set the second quickest time on the earth this season – a time slower solely than her personal benchmark of 1:53.80 from March.

NCAA standout Anna Moesch completed second in a time of 1:56.55, adopted by a resurgent  Simone Manuel in 1:56.80. Katie Ledecky – essentially the most adorned U.S. feminine swimmer in historical past – completed fourth in her first 400m freestyle race of the season in a time of 1:56.94.

Pushing an unmatchable tempo from begin, McIntosh constructed a large lead after the primary two lengths of the pool, earlier than consolidating that hole within the ultimate 50 metres. She completed greater than two seconds forward of her nearest rival. 

The win marked her second-consecutive victory towards Ledecky, after the 14-time Olympic medallist beat McIntosh to set the fifth quickest time in historical past within the girls’s 1500m freestyle on Wednesday (29 April).

French star Leon Marchand was additionally in motion on Friday (1 May), main from begin to end within the males’s 400m particular person medley to earn a commanding victory in a time of 4:09.33.

Gretchen Walsh made loads of waves as effectively, setting a brand new season’s better of 25.08 seconds within the girls’s 50m butterfly. 

More motion is predicted from the 2026 Fort Lauderdale Open on Saturday, 2 May.