A teenager will join Team Canada at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Get to know Summer McIntosh ahead of this summer's swimming events.
McIntosh set a Canadian record at the 2020 Tokyo OlympicsShe also competed in the 4x200m freestyle relay alongside her three 20-something teammates, Penny Oleksiak, Kayla Sanchez and Rebecca Smith, helping them to a fourth-place finish in the final in a new Canadian record , and narrowly missed qualifying for the 200m freestyle final.ended Ledecky’s 13-year undefeated streak in the 800m freestyle
, winning a sectional meet in February by nearly six seconds. McIntosh’s 8:11.39 mark also cleared Ledecky’s winning time of 8:12.57 from the Tokyo Olympics, though it’s still shy of Ledecky’s 8:04.79 world record from the Late last year, McIntosh became the first swimmer in 11 years to beat Ledecky in a 400m freestyle final held in the United States. In March 2023, the teenager also snapped Ledecky's nine-year winning run in the 200m free in her home country.McIntosh’s primary events are the 200m butterfly, 400m individual medley and 400m free. She is the second-fastest woman in history in the 800m free and fourth fastest in the 200m IM, though she has never swum either event at the world championships.
The 200m IM and the 800m free finals are in the same session on the Olympic schedule. The schedule has the 200m IM taking place right before the 800m free, making it unrealistic to swim both.Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics Even her cats are part of the sports-oriented family. McIntosh named one of her two cats Mikey after Michael Phelps because he loves water.
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