It only took four days to witness Summer McIntosh’s second explosion during the Canadian selections for the Fukuoka World Championships. Saturday night in Toronto, the sixteen-year-old prodigy broke a new world record in the 400m medley, after erasing the 400m freestyle Tuesday.
“It’s amazing to have all my family and friends cheering me on in the stands”
In 4’25”87, she shaved nearly half a second off the mark set by Hungarian legend Katinka Hosszu at the 2016 Rio Olympics (4’26”36) in a crazy atmosphere. “It was the first time that I really heard, deep inside me, the public during my race, exulted the young star, who had already won the world title in the distance last year, as well as in the 200m butterfly. It’s amazing to have all my family and friends cheering me on in the stands. It really helped me in the last 100 meters. » On Tuesday, she had lowered the record held by Ariarne Titmus by 32 hundredths.
McIntosh has one last race to run during these trials, the 200 meters.