2024 Sarasota Sharks Turkey Meet
November 15-17, 2024
Selby Aquatic Middle, Sarasota, Florida
Brief Course Yards (25 yards), Timed Finals
Outcomes on Meet Cell: “2024 SYS Turkey Meet”
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Summer season McIntosh closed out the 2024 Sarasota Sharks Turkey Meet with two extra private bests in secondary occasions—the 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke. This meet marked the 18-year-old’s return to the competitors pool after an unbelievable efficiency on the Paris Olympics, the place she gained gold within the 200 fly, 200 IM, and 400 IM, together with a silver within the 400 freestyle.
She already swam a 2:08.86 to win the 200-yard breaststroke on the Turkey Meet in her first time formally swimming the occasion and picked up the win within the 500 freestyle (4:35.74).
Her last three occasions of the meet had been the 100 fly, 100 backstroke, and 100 breaststroke. Just like the 200 breaststroke, this meet marked her first time swimming the 100 backstroke in yards. She clocked 51.35 to win, splitting 24.94/26.41. Per USA Swimming’s data, that might put her twenty fourth amongst American ladies 17-18 in an off-event, discounting fellow Canadian Maggie MacNeil’s 51.31, which seems on the record.
McIntosh has raced the 100 backstroke in each SCM and LCM. Her SCM 100 backstroke finest is 1:02.72 from January 2020, however her LCM 100 backstroke of 59.64 from February’s Southern Zone Senior Championships is a greater indicator of her present backstroke prowess.
She then lowered her lifetime finest within the 100-yard breaststroke, swimming 1:01.40. That improves on the 1:04.11 she swam at this meet two years in the past by 2.71 seconds. It’s unsurprising to see her decrease this private finest given her success within the 200 breaststroke earlier within the meet. She break up 1:01.91 on the primary 100 of her 200 breaststroke, signaling {that a} drop was coming within the particular person 100 breast.
McIntosh additionally swam 51.95 within the 100-yard fly, the place her lifetime finest is a 51.10 from the 2022 Winter Juniors – East Championships. She went five-for-five in occasion wins over the weekend at a meet designed for Winter Juniors and beneath members of the Sarasota Sharks and surrounding native golf equipment.
McIntosh is slated to race internationally subsequent month on the 2024 Brief Course World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
