No explanation required was the consensus among voters for The Canadian Press award for 2024 female athlete of the year.
During the month before her 18th birthday, Summer McIntosh became the first Canadian to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games, winter or summer, with a silver medal thrown in for good measure.
Previous winners include hockey players Marie-Philip Poulin and Hayley Wickenheiser , tennis players Leylah Fernandez and Bianca Andreescu , soccer star Christine Sinclair , golfer Brooke Henderson and swimmer Penny Oleksiak . "Just going into the Olympics, all the training that I did on a day-to-day basis, and mentally, physically preparing for a nine-day-long swim meet, I couldn't have been more prepared and my results showed that," McIntosh said.
The world record holder was expected to win her bread-and-butter event. McIntosh didn't just deliver. She dominated and won by nearly six seconds, which World Aquatics said was the largest margin in 40 years. McIntosh and Olympic champion hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg were chosen to carry Canada's flag in the closing ceremonies at Stade de France.
McIntosh put an exclamation mark on 2024 by winning the women's 400 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 400 individual medley — all in world-record time — as well as backstroke silver and relay bronze in December's world short-course championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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