Summer season McIntosh Blasts World’s Quickest 200 Freestyle at Canadian Open
One month out from Canada’s Olympic Trials, lots of the nation’s high swimmers are racing this weekend in Toronto, and to nobody’s shock, the star of evening one of many Canadian Swimming Open was the swimmer who has change into the nation’s brightest star and on the quick checklist of the world’s high performers during the last two years.
Summer season McIntosh has already received 4 particular person world titles, and she or he owns the world file within the 400 IM after briefly holding the worldwide normal within the 400 freestyle final season. Final 12 months, she received World Championships bronze within the 200 free in a Canadian-record time of 1:53.65, and in Toronto, she dominated the home discipline with a time of 1:54.21, lower than six tenths shy of her greatest mark.
With the trouble, McIntosh grew to become the highest swimmer on the earth this 12 months, beating out the 1:54.76 posted by Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan, the world champion and world-record holder within the occasion, final month. Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey is the one different lady to interrupt 1:55, having gone 1:54.89 on the best way to a world title on the Doha World Championships in February. McIntosh’s earlier season greatest previous to the race was 1:55.41.
It has already been a powerful begin to the 12 months for McIntosh, who handed Katie Ledecky her first defeat within the 800 free in 13 years at a Sectionals meet in Orlando, changing into the second-fastest swimmer ever within the 16-lap race. The 17-year-old is poised to chase an enormous efficiency on the Paris Olympics.
Notably, the sphere of Canadian ladies’s 200 freestylers behind McIntosh seems to be sturdy. Mary-Sophie Harvey swam a time of 1:56.76 to take second, surpassing her earlier greatest time of 1:57.06, whereas Julie Brousseau (1:58.40), Ella Jansen (1:58.88), Emma O’Croinin (1:59.48) and Penny Oleksiak (1:59.75) have been all below 2:00.
McIntosh returned later within the night to swim the 100 backstroke, and she or he was a part of a very shut end. Maggie Mac Neil, the reigning Olympic gold medalist within the 100 butterfly, obtained the win in 59.93, three hundredths forward of McIntosh (59.96) whereas Ingrid Wilm was one hundredth additional again (59.97). Wilm received bronze within the 50 again and 100 again on the February World Championships.
After two finals within the session, McIntosh sat out the 200 fly, one of many races wherein she has received world title the final two years. In her absence, Mabel Zavaros received in 2:11.88 forward of Sofia Sartori (2:12.81), and within the ladies’s 1500 free, Laila Oravsky was the winner in 17:10.36.
On the lads’s facet, Finlay Knox competed for the primary time since successful a shock world title within the 200 IM earlier this 12 months. Knox received the 200 IM in 1:48.39, with Lorne Wigginton lower than a half-second again (1:48.84), whereas Raben Dommann edged veteran Javier Acevedo within the 100 again, 55.16 to 55.38, with Blake Tierney third (55.41). Kevin Zhang topped the 200 fly (2:00.18), with the 800 free going to Timothe Barbeau (8:06.73).
In para swimming occasions, Angela Marina (S14) received the ladies’s 200 free in 2:18.00, and Nichola Bennett (S14) was the one participant within the males’s occasion (1:54.20). The ladies’s 100 again belonged to Jaime Cosgriffe (S10) in 1:02.29, and Jordan Tucker (S4) was first within the ladies’s 50 fly (54.78).
Within the blended 400 medley relay, the Granite Gators group of Henry Schlater, Samuel Hibbert, Claire Christie and Lila Bleakney took the win in 4:09.62.
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