At the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials, Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh once again surpassed the world record, this time in the 400-meter individual medley.
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At the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials, Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh once again surpassed the world record, this time in the 400-meter individual medley. McIntosh set a new world record in the 400-meter individual medley final, finishing in 4:25.87. With this, she also shattered Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu’s previous record of 4:26.36 set at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Following six and a half years of Hosszu holding the world record, McIntosh accomplished an amazing feat. McIntosh posted a time of 4:40.69 in the 400-meter individual medley heats before breaking the world record in the finals. McIntosh currently owns three of the ten best 400-meter individual medley times in history.
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Post her outstanding performance, this is what Summer McIntosh told the CBC Sports, “It’s obviously really amazing and I’m happy to get another world record. Right now I’m just thinking about my legs. The 400m IM is one of the toughest events out there so going into tonight, whatever the time was, the time would be.” She added, “Just tried to do my best and whatever that is I would be happy with it.”
At the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials, Summer McIntosh had established another world record. In a time of 3:56.08, she claimed the women’s 400-meter freestyle, shattering the previous world record of 3:56.40 established by Australian swimmer and Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus at the 2022 Australian Championships. During the opening day of the trials, McIntosh swam the world record time. Having already broken the world mark in the 400-meter individual medley, this is her second world record at the competition.
Due to her amazing achievement, McIntosh is the only swimmer, male or female, to hold the 400-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley world records in long course meters, either at the same time or even at different times. McIntosh, who is only 16 years old, has already achieved her first world records in the 400-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley, in addition to being a world champion in the 200 butterfly and 400-meter individual medley.
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