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Summer McIntosh (born August 18, 2006) is a Canadian competitive swimmer.[1] McIntosh first drew recognition when, at age 14, she was the youngest member of the Canadian team for the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she achieved a notable fourth-place finish.[2][3] The following year she became the youngest world champion in swimming in over a decade, and the first Canadian to win two gold medals at a single World Championships, for which she was dubbed a "teen swimming sensation."[4][5][6]

Summer McIntosh

Personal information
National team	Canada
Born	(2006-08-18) August 18, 2006 (age 16) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	High Performance Centre - Ontario
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Canada Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships (LC) 2 1 1 World Championships (SC) 1 2 0 Commonwealth Games 2 3 1 Total 5 6 2 World Championships (LC) 2022 Budapest 200 m butterfly 2022 Budapest 400 m medley 2022 Budapest 400 m freestyle 2022 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×200 m freestyle 2021 Abu Dhabi 400 m freestyle 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m medley Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 200 m medley 2022 Birmingham 400 m medley 2022 Birmingham 400 m freestyle 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley 2022 Birmingham 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m freestyle

Personal life

McIntosh is the daughter of Greg McIntosh and former Canadian Olympic team swimmer Jill Horstead.[7][8] Her older sister Brooke is a competitive pair skater.[9][10]

Career

McIntosh has broken over 50 age group national swimming records.[11] In May 2021, McIntosh swam a 4:05.13 in the 400 m freestyle, the fastest time ever by a 14-year-old swimmer worldwide.[12]

2021 season

As part of the 2021 Canadian Olympic swimming trials in Toronto, McIntosh won the 200 m freestyle event over training partner Penny Oleksiak, with a personal best time of 1:56.19, which also marked the fastest time ever by a 14 year old swimmer worldwide.[13] This qualified her for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. McIntosh followed this up with a win in the 800 m freestyle event, in another personal best time of 8:29.49. She was the youngest person named to the Canadian Olympic team.[2][14][15][16]

In her first event, McIntosh finished fourth in the women's 400m freestyle, breaking the Canadian national record with a time of 4:02.42.[3] She advanced to the semifinals of the women's 200m freestyle, but placed ninth there and thus missed the final. She was part of the Canadian team for the 4 x 200 m relay, along with Oleksiak, Rebecca Smith and Kayla Sanchez. They set a new Canadian record in the event final, placing fourth.[17] McIntosh's last event was the women's 800m freestyle, where she placed eleventh and thus did not advance to the final.[18]

Following the Olympics, McIntosh made her debut on the International Swimming League as part of the Toronto Titans.[19]

McIntosh was part of the Canadian team for the 2021 World Swimming Championships, and won a silver medal as part of the 4×100 m medley relay, where she swam in the preliminaries for Canada as the team finished in second in the final. She then helped the Canadian team in the 4×200 m women's freestyle relay, swimming the first leg as Canada won gold. McIntosh won her first individual medal of the competition when she won the silver in the 400 m freestyle race. She was third at the halfway mark but passed Siobhan Haughey and held on to the second position, finishing behind Li Bingjie.[20] McIntosh had set a Canadian record in the 800 m qualifying, but she withdrew from the event to focus on the 400 and women's relay events.[21][22]

2022 season

On March 4, 2022, McIntosh swam the 400 m individual medley at a preparatory event for the Canadian swimming trials, recording a time of 4:29.12. This was both a national and Commonwealth record, and the third-fastest of all-time, as well as the fastest time recorded by any swimmer since Katinka Hosszú's winning time at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[23] At the national swimming trials, McIntosh won titles in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, the 200 m butterly, and the 400 m individual medley, before scratching from the 800 m freestyle.[24]

McIntosh made her senior FINA World Aquatics Championships debut at the 2022 edition in Budapest, with her first event being the 400 m freestyle. She finished second in the final, taking the silver medal with a new personal best and national record time of 3:59.39. She was only the fourth woman in history to record a time of under four minutes.[25] McIntosh set another world junior record in the semi-final of the 200 m butterfly with a 2:05.79 time, exceeding her own as-yet-unratified record from the Canadian swimming trials.[26] She broke the record again the following day, June 22, in the event final, claiming her first World title, the first medal of any colour for Canada in the event.[5] She was the first 15-year-old to win a World title since China's Ye Shiwen in 2011, and the youngest Canadian world champion in history, surpassing 18-year-old Victor Davis in 1982.[6][27] Later in that same session she participated in the event final of the 4×200 m freestyle relay, breaking another junior world record with a 1:54.79 opening leg, the second-fastest of any woman in the event behind Katie Ledecky for Team USA. The Canadian team won the bronze medal.[5] In her final event, the 400 m individual medley, McIntosh won her second gold medal of the championships, beating American Katie Grimes by 0.63 seconds. She became the first Canadian swimmer to win two gold medals at a single World Championships, and set a new record for the most medals won by a Canadian at a single World Championships (4), which would be tied later that same day by Penny Oleksiak and Kayla Sanchez.[4] As well, she was the youngest winner since Tracy Caulkins in 1978. McIntosh called the results "a dream come true," and praised Grimes, noting "she is around my age and she's a really tough competitor. So I'm looking forward to racing her and keep pushing myself."[28]

A month later, McIntosh was part of her first Commonwealth Games team, for the 2022 edition in Birmingham. She opted not to contest the 200 m butterfly there, citing the need to focus on other events.[29] Heavily favoured in the 400 m medley, she won gold on the first day of the competition schedule, improving her world junior, Commonwealth, and national records to 4:29.01. She finished 7.77 seconds ahead of silver medalist Kiah Melverton, and was the first Canadian gold medalist of the Games.[30] McIntosh was then given the novel opportunity to participate in Canada's 4×100 m freestyle relay team, with mainstay members like Oleksiak, Sanchez and Taylor Ruck absent, winning a bronze medal. She noted that she "didn't really know what to expect, the 100 free is not my main event so I just tried to put a good time down to set it up for the rest of the girls."[31] The next day she took her more customary place on the 4×200 m freestyle relay team, swimming the leadoff leg and helping take the silver medal.[32] Of this, she said she was "very proud."[33] On the fourth day, she competed in the 200 m medley, a much more uncommon event for her than the 400 m equivalent. McIntosh won the gold medal, defeating reigning World silver medalist Kaylee McKeown of Australia and setting a new world junior record. McIntosh noted that "the 200 IM is more of a sprinting event for me," adding "the only pressure I feel is what I put on myself. The only thing that matters is my expectations."[34] With the result, McIntosh recorded one of the top four results of 2022 in five different events.[35] On the final day of the swimming competitions, McIntosh won two more silver medals, finishing behind Ariarne Titmus in the 400 m freestyle while lowering her own national record and then swimming the freestyle leg of the 4×100 m medley relay, typically performed for the Canadian team by the absent Oleksiak.[36][37]

Following the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games, Swimming World magazine, assessing her "vast talent on display at two championship-level events," opined "it's not hype and bluster anymore. Based purely on results from this year, not career medal totals or performance over a long stretch of time, McIntosh is the third-best female swimmer in the world."[36]

On October 28, at the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup in Toronto, and conducted in short course metres, McIntosh set a new world junior record, World Cup record, Americas record, and Canadian record in the 400 metre freestyle on day one, finishing in a time of 3:52.80 in the final to win the gold medal.[38][39] The following day, she won the gold medal in the 400 metre individual medley with a world junior record and Canadian record time of 4:21.49.[40][41] She and fellow Canadians Sydney Pickrem and Bailey Andison won all the medals in the event.[41] Approximately 50 minutes later, she placed eighth in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 58.84 seconds.[42] The following, and final, day, she won a pair of bronze medals, the first in the 200 metre backstroke with a personal best time of 2:02.85 and the second in the 200 metre individual medley with a personal best time of 2:06.57.[43][44]

The next, and final, stop of the World Cup circuit, McIntosh won the gold medal in the 200 metre butterfly on November 3, finishing in a personal best time of 2:03.40, which was the only time in the final faster than 2:04.00.[45] Day two, she finished in a personal best time of 1:52.63 in the 200 metre freestyle final to place fifth.[46] On the third and final day, she dropped 6.25 seconds from her personal best time in the 800 metre freestyle to win the silver medal with a Canadian record time of 8:07.12.[47]

Results

Championships

Meet	200 free	400 free	800 free	200 fly	200 medley	400 medley	4×100 free	4×200 free	4×100 medley
OG 2021	9th	4th	11th					4th
SCW 2021			WD[a]
WC 2022
CG 2022

^a McIntosh withdrew from the 800 freestyle after swimming in the heats.

Swimming World Cup

The following medals McIntosh has won at Swimming World Cup circuits.[48]

Edition	Gold medals	Silver medals	Bronze medals	Total
2022	3	1	2	6
Total	3	1	2	6

Personal bests

Long course (50-meter pool)

Event	Time[49]	Venue	Date	Notes
200 m freestyle	1:54.79	Danube Arena, Budapest	June 22, 2022	WJR
400 m freestyle	3:59.32	Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Smethwick	August 3, 2022	NR
800 m freestyle	8:25.04	Tokyo Aquatics Centre, Tokyo	July 29, 2021
1500 m freestyle	16:15.19	Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto	May 7, 2021
200 m butterfly	2:05.20	Danube Arena, Budapest	June 22, 2022	WJR, NR
200 m individual medley	2:08.70	Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Smethwick	August 1, 2022	WJR
400 m individual medley	4:29.01	Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Smethwick	July 29, 2022	WJR, AM, CR, NR

Short course (25-meter pool)

Event	Time	Venue	Date	Notes	Ref
200 m freestyle	1:52.63	Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis	4 November 2022		[46]
400 m freestyle	3:52.80	Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto	28 October 2022	WJR, AM, NR	[38][39]
800 m freestyle	8:07.12	Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis	5 November 2022	NR	[47]
200 m backstroke	2:02.85	Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto	30 October 2022		[43]
200 m butterfly	2:03.40	Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis	3 November 2022		[45]
200 m individual medley	2:06.57	Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto	30 October 2022		[44]
400 m individual medley	4:21.49	Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto	29 October 2022	WJR, NR	[40][41]

References

External links

• Summer McIntosh at Swimming Canada
• Summer McIntosh at FINA
• Summer McIntosh at the Canadian Olympic Committee
• Summer McIntosh at Olympics.com
• SummerMcIntosh.com

На других языках

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[de] Summer McIntosh

Summer McIntosh (* 18. August 2006 in Toronto) ist eine kanadische Schwimmerin.

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[es] Summer McIntosh

Summer McIntosh (Toronto, 18 de agosto de 2006) es una deportista canadiense que compite en natación, especialista en los estilos libre y mariposa.[1]

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