Budapest 2024, Day 5: Summer time McIntosh Completes World File Hat Trick in 400 IM; Katie Grimes Will get AR
Summer time McIntosh is 3-for-3 at 2024 World Brief-Course Championships, in gold medals and world information.
The Canadian wunderkind positively destroyed the world report within the girls’s 400 particular person medley Saturday on the Duna Enviornment in Budapest, profitable in 4:15.48.
Second was Katie Grimes, decreasing the American report to 4:20.14. Abbie Wooden of Nice Britain held off the sphere for bronze.
McIntosh has already gained the 400 freestyle and 200 butterfly at this meet, each in world information, plus a relay medal. The world report was set in 2017 by Spain’s Mireia Belmonte at 4:18.94. McIntosh’s Canadian report within the occasion dates to the 2022 World Cup at 4:21.49. That was additionally the world junior report, which McIntosh blew out of the water.
Grimes’ comfort prize was a decisive American report. Her time of 4:20.14 gouged 4.01 seconds out of the American mark set in 2019 by Melanie Margalis at 4:24.15 within the Worldwide Swimming League. It’s Grimes’ third medal, to go together with bronze within the 800 free and gold within the 800 free relay.
Wooden has a second bronze of the meet, going 4:24.34 to reinforce her third-place within the 200 IM. She simply missed out on the British report of 4:23.14 set in 2012 by Hannah Miley.
Mary-Sophie Harvey was fourth in 4:26.09, adopted by Erin Walshe of Eire. Wooden additionally grabbed bronze within the 200 IM, a closing that additionally featured Harvey (fourth), Walshe (fifth) and Spain’s Emma Carrasco (seventh). Carrasco was eighth within the 400 IM.
Harvey has had an engrossing week in Budapest: Bronze within the 400 free behind McIntosh, bronze within the girls’s 400 free relay, silver within the combined 200 medley relay, plus a hat trick of fourth-place IM finishes.
Walshe began the day by ending sixth within the girls’s 100 fly in 55.68, .18 seconds slower than her new Irish report.
