The fastest freestyle relay ever swum by Canadian women in the 4 x 200 fell just short of producing a seventh Olympic medal for Penny Oleksiak and a first for 14-year-old Summer McIntosh.
Toronto's McIntosh, Oleksiak, Kayla Sanchez and Rebecca Smith of Red Deer, Alta., finished fourth in Thursday's final behind China, which won in a world-record time of seven minutes 40.33 seconds, the United States in second and Australia third.Complete coverage: Click for all the news from the Tokyo Olympics
"We all swam the best we could so that's all you can really ask for. You can't be disappointed with a Canadian record."Smith, Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., Sydney Pickrem of Clearwater, Fla., and Marie-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Rivieres, Que., posted the fourth-fastest time in preliminaries for Canada to advance.
"The 200 free is hard," Sanchez said. "You have to be a really tough person mentally and physically to do a 200 free. We took seven people to get this four by two to where it is. I'm just really proud of everyone. Oleksiak, Sanchez and Smith earned 4 x 100 freestyle silver with Maggie Mac Neil on the first day of finals in Tokyo.
With a gold, two silver and three bronze medals, Oleksiak was tied with speedskater Cindy Klassen and speedskater-cyclist Clara Hughes at six.
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