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Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh was out-touched for gold by 0.02 seconds within the girls’s 200-metre particular person medley on the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on Saturday.
The reigning Olympic and world champion from Toronto took silver behind China’s Yu Yiting, who set a championship document with a time of two minutes 7.45 seconds on the ultimate night of competitors in Irvine, Calif.
American Alex Walsh took bronze in 2:07.66.
Yu was underneath world-record tempo on the opening butterfly leg earlier than American Regan Smith took over the lead on the backstroke. Yu moved again in entrance on the breaststroke and held off McIntosh within the closing metres.
It’s McIntosh’s third particular person medal of the out of doors meet after profitable gold within the 400m medley and silver within the 200m freestyle. She additionally helped Canada earn bronze within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay.
Summer McIntosh finishes simply two one-hundredths of a second behind 200m particular person medley gold medallist Yu Yiting.
“That was probably one of my better swims of the meet, but overall this meet didn’t go the way I wanted it to. So there will definitely be a lot of reflection and focus on how I can be better next season,” McIntosh informed CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux.
McIntosh is the world record-holder within the occasion with a time of two:05.70 on the 2025 Canadian trials.
The 19-year-old McIntosh was swimming in her final particular person race as a young person.
“I know that I’ve accomplished a lot being so young and I’ve learned so much these past couple years. Going into my 20s, I hope to learn even more,” she stated.
After lacking out on gold by simply two one-hundredths of a second, Summer McIntosh relives her silver medal efficiency with Devin Heroux.
Lepage beats Douglass for gold
Fellow Canadian Alexanne Lepage received the ladies’s 200m breaststroke remaining later Saturday after main your entire race and touching in a lifetime finest of two:21.73, beating reigning Olympic and world champion Kate Douglass of the United States.
Douglass rallied from third down the stretch however could not catch the Vernon, B.C., native, ending second in 2:22.57. South Africa’s Kaylene Corbett was third in 2:22.97.
“I feel like I’m just a little in shock to be honest,” Lepage stated.
Canada’s Sophie Angus completed eighth with a time of two:26.02.
Canada finishes with 13 medals (three gold, 4 silver, six bronze), its most on the Pan Pacific Championships since profitable 12 on the 1997 version in Fukuoka, Japan. The U.S. topped the general medal standings with 50, adopted by Australia (35) and Canada.
A giant underdog moving into, Alexanne Lepage of Vernon B.C., swims a lifetime-best time of two:21.73 to win 200-metre breaststroke gold.
In different outcomes, Taylor Ruck lowered her Canadian document within the girls’s 50m freestyle, clocking 24.23 to complete fourth in a quick remaining that noticed Douglass set the world document for the second time in sooner or later with a time of 23.19.
Ruck, from Kelowna, B.C., beforehand set the nationwide document in 2018 with a mark of 24.26 on the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
“It means a lot definitely, just to see hard work paying off from this year of training,” Ruck stated. “I didn’t really know it was the best time until just a few seconds go. I just feel like it was a really good effort.”
Kate Douglass took 50-metre freestyle gold with a world document time of 23.19. Taylor Ruck of of Kelowna, B.C., swam to a brand new Canadian document time of 24.23.
In the morning preliminaries, the 24-year-old Douglass swam 23.49 to take the world document away from teammate Gretchen Walsh, who completed second within the night remaining in 23.74.
Walsh had owned the 50 free document of 23.55 since setting it in June at a world meet in Rome.
It’s the third time Douglass has lowered the world mark within the dash race. She first did it on June 19 on the TYR Pro Swim Series meet in Indianapolis, posting a time of 23.59. Nine days later, Walsh lowered it once more.
Douglass is a five-time Olympic medalist. She earned silver within the 50 free on the 2024 world championships however did not compete within the occasion on the 2024 Paris Games.
Her 50 free was the second particular person world document set on the meet.
Taylor Ruck tells CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux about her 50-metre freestyle race and never realizing immediately that she broke the document.
Pallister stuns Ledecky
Lani Pallister of Australia shocked Katie Ledecky along with her first worldwide loss within the 800m freestyle.
Pallister was underneath world-record tempo for a lot of the race and touched in 8:06.10 to erase Ledecky’s championship document from 2018.
Ledecky took silver in 8:07.26. She is the four-time Olympic champion in her signature occasion. The American’s lone earlier defeat in an 800 free remaining since 2010 got here in a small home meet in February 2024 in opposition to McIntosh.
On the ultimate night time of the 2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Alexanne Lepage had her breakout swim, profitable the 200m breaststroke over Olympic & world champion Kate Douglass. Summer McIntosh’s remaining race of the meet was the 200m IM the place she fought onerous till the top, however was 0.02s from gold. And Taylor Ruck broke her personal 8-year-old Canadian document.
Sam Short of Australia received the boys’s 1,500 free to go together with his earlier titles within the 400 and 800 free occasions. His time of 14:33.97 was the sixth-fastest in historical past and broke Grant Hackett’s 24-year-old championship document.
Kazushi Imafuku of Japan took silver in 14:42.59 and two-time defending Olympic champion Bobby Finke earned bronze in 14:44.26 on the identical day he misplaced his world document to Johannes Liebmann of Germany on the European championships.
The males’s 50 free was received by Jamie Jack of Australia in a championship document time of 21.35. American Jack Alexy took silver in 21.42, ending forward of Brazil’s Gui Caribe (21.54).
Canadians Yuri Kisil (22.19) and Ruslan Gaziev (22.34) completed seventh and eighth, respectively.
Other Canadian outcomes:
- Canada (girls’s 4x100m medley relay) Ingrid Wilm, Alexanne Lepage, Summer McIntosh, Taylor Ruck — 4th, 3:56.84
- Canada 2 (girls’s 4x100m medley relay) Reina Liu, Sophie Angus, Leilani Fack, Leah Tigert — seventh, 4:01.71
- Oliver Dawson, Grande Prairie, Alta., (males’s 200m breaststroke) — seventh, 2:11.23
- Apollo Hess, Lethbridge, Alta, (males’s 200m breaststroke) — eighth, 2:15.48
- Finlay Knox, Okotoks, Alta., (males’s 200m particular person medley) — fifth, 1:57.13
- Rex Maurer, Newmarket, Ont., (males’s 200m particular person medley) — sixth, 1:57.78
- Canada (males’s 4x100m medley relay) Blake Tierney, Oliver Dawson, Finlay Knox, Ruslan Gaziev — sixth, 3:34.08
- Canada 2 (males’s 4x100m medley relay) Ethan Ekk, Apollo Hess, Raben Dommann, Kim Laon — seventh, 3:36.57
Alexanne Lepage of Vernon B.C., spoke to our Devin Heroux concerning the sudden gold medal win and the way she remains to be in shock after her efficiency.
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