Summer McIntosh

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Summer McIntosh
Personal information
National team Canada
Born (2006-08-18) August 18, 2006 (age 17)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
ClubHigh Performance Centre - Ontario
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Canada
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships (LC) 2 1 1
World Championships (SC) 1 2 0
Commonwealth Games 2 3 1
Total 5 6 2
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2022 Budapest 200 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2022 Budapest 400 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2021 Abu Dhabi 400 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 200 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 400 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 400 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m freestyle

Summer McIntosh (born August 18, 2006) is a Canadian competitive swimmer.[1] McIntosh first drew recognition when, at age 14, she was the youngest member of the Canadian team for the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she achieved a notable fourth-place finish.[2][3] The following year she became the youngest world champion in swimming in over a decade, and the first Canadian to win two gold medals at a single World Championships, for which she was dubbed a "teen swimming sensation."[4][5][6]

Personal life

McIntosh is the daughter of Greg McIntosh and former Canadian Olympic team swimmer Jill Horstead.[7][8] Her older sister Brooke is a competitive pair skater.[9][10]

Career

McIntosh has broken over 50 age group national swimming records.[11] In May 2021, McIntosh swam a 4:05.13 in the 400 m freestyle, the fastest time ever by a 14-year-old swimmer worldwide.[12]

2021 season

As part of the 2021 Canadian Olympic swimming trials in Toronto, McIntosh won the 200 m freestyle event over training partner Penny Oleksiak, with a personal best time of 1:56.19, which also marked the fastest time ever by a 14 year old swimmer worldwide.[13] This qualified her for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. McIntosh followed this up with a win in the 800 m freestyle event, in another personal best time of 8:29.49. She was the youngest person named to the Canadian Olympic team.[2][14][15][16]

In her first event, McIntosh finished fourth in the women's 400m freestyle, breaking the Canadian national record with a time of 4:02.42.[3] She advanced to the semifinals of the women's 200m freestyle, but placed ninth there and thus missed the final. She was part of the Canadian team for the 4 x 200 m relay, along with Oleksiak, Rebecca Smith and Kayla Sanchez. They set a new Canadian record in the event final, placing fourth.[17] McIntosh's last event was the women's 800m freestyle, where she placed eleventh and thus did not advance to the final.[18]

Following the Olympics, McIntosh made her debut on the International Swimming League as part of the Toronto Titans.[19]

McIntosh was part of the Canadian team for the 2021 World Swimming Championships, and won a silver medal as part of the 4×100 m medley relay, where she swam in the preliminaries for Canada as the team finished in second in the final. She then helped the Canadian team in the 4×200 m women's freestyle relay, swimming the first leg as Canada won gold. McIntosh won her first individual medal of the competition when she won the silver in the 400 m freestyle race. She was third at the halfway mark but passed Siobhan Haughey and held on to the second position, finishing behind Li Bingjie.[20] McIntosh had set a Canadian record in the 800 m qualifying, but she withdrew from the event to focus on the 400 and women's relay events.[21][22]

2022 season

On March 4, 2022, McIntosh swam the 400 m individual medley at a preparatory event for the Canadian swimming trials, recording a time of 4:29.12. This was both a national and Commonwealth record, and the third-fastest of all-time, as well as the fastest time recorded by any swimmer since Katinka Hosszú's winning time at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[23] At the national swimming trials, McIntosh won titles in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, the 200 m butterly, and the 400 m individual medley, before scratching from the 800 m freestyle.[24]

McIntosh made her senior FINA World Aquatics Championships debut at the 2022 edition in Budapest, with her first event being the 400 m freestyle. She finished second in the final, taking the silver medal with a new personal best and national record time of 3:59.39. She was only the fourth woman in history to record a time of under four minutes.[25] McIntosh set another world junior record in the semi-final of the 200 m butterfly with a 2:05.79 time, exceeding her own as-yet-unratified record from the Canadian swimming trials.[26] She broke the record again the following day, June 22, in the event final, claiming her first World title, the first medal of any colour for Canada in the event.[5] She was the first 15-year-old to win a World title since China's Ye Shiwen in 2011, and the youngest Canadian world champion in history, surpassing 18-year-old Victor Davis in 1982.[6][27] Later in that same session she participated in the event final of the 4×200 m freestyle relay, breaking another junior world record with a 1:54.79 opening leg, the second-fastest of any woman in the event behind Katie Ledecky for Team USA. The Canadian team won the bronze medal.[5] In her final event, the 400 m individual medley, McIntosh won her second gold medal of the championships, beating American Katie Grimes by 0.63 seconds. She became the first Canadian swimmer to win two gold medals at a single World Championships, and set a new record for the most medals won by a Canadian at a single World Championships (4), which would be tied later that same day by Penny Oleksiak and Kayla Sanchez.[4] As well, she was the youngest winner since Tracy Caulkins in 1978. McIntosh called the results "a dream come true," and praised Grimes, noting "she is around my age and she's a really tough competitor. So I'm looking forward to racing her and keep pushing myself."[28]

A month later, McIntosh was part of her first Commonwealth Games team, for the 2022 edition in Birmingham. She opted not to contest the 200 m butterfly there, citing the need to focus on other events.[29] Heavily favoured in the 400 m medley, she won gold on the first day of the competition schedule, improving her world junior, Commonwealth, and national records to 4:29.01. She finished 7.77 seconds ahead of silver medalist Kiah Melverton, and was the first Canadian gold medalist of the Games.[30] McIntosh was then given the novel opportunity to participate in Canada's 4×100 m freestyle relay team, with mainstay members like Oleksiak, Sanchez and Taylor Ruck absent, winning a bronze medal. She noted that she "didn't really know what to expect, the 100 free is not my main event so I just tried to put a good time down to set it up for the rest of the girls."[31] The next day she took her more customary place on the 4×200 m freestyle relay team, swimming the leadoff leg and helping take the silver medal.[32] Of this, she said she was "very proud."[33] On the fourth day, she competed in the 200 m medley, a much more uncommon event for her than the 400 m equivalent. McIntosh won the gold medal, defeating reigning World silver medalist Kaylee McKeown of Australia and setting a new world junior record. McIntosh noted that "the 200 IM is more of a sprinting event for me," adding "the only pressure I feel is what I put on myself. The only thing that matters is my expectations."[34] With the result, McIntosh recorded one of the top four results of 2022 in five different events.[35] On the final day of the swimming competitions, McIntosh won two more silver medals, finishing behind Ariarne Titmus in the 400 m freestyle while lowering her own national record and then swimming the freestyle leg of the 4×100 m medley relay, typically performed for the Canadian team by the absent Oleksiak.[36][37]

Following the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games, Swimming World magazine, assessing her "vast talent on display at two championship-level events," opined "it's not hype and bluster anymore. Based purely on results from this year, not career medal totals or performance over a long stretch of time, McIntosh is the third-best female swimmer in the world."[36]

On October 28, at the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup in Toronto, and conducted in short course metres, McIntosh set a new world junior record, World Cup record, Americas record, and Canadian record in the 400 metre freestyle on day one, finishing in a time of 3:52.80 in the final to win the gold medal.[38][39] The following day, she won the gold medal in the 400 metre individual medley with a world junior record and Canadian record time of 4:21.49.[40][41] She and fellow Canadians Sydney Pickrem and Bailey Andison won all the medals in the event.[41] Approximately 50 minutes later, she placed eighth in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 58.84 seconds.[42] The following, and final, day, she won a pair of bronze medals, the first in the 200 metre backstroke with a personal best time of 2:02.85 and the second in the 200 metre individual medley with a personal best time of 2:06.57.[43][44]

The next, and final, stop of the World Cup circuit, McIntosh won the gold medal in the 200 metre butterfly on November 3, finishing in a personal best time of 2:03.40, which was the only time in the final faster than 2:04.00.[45]

Results

Championships

Meet 200 free 400 free 800 free 200 fly 200 medley 400 medley 4×100 free 4×200 free 4×100 medley
OG 2021 9th 4th 11th 4th
SCW 2021 2nd place, silver medalist(s) WD[a] 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
WC 2022 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
CG 2022 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
a McIntosh withdrew from the 800 freestyle after swimming in the heats.

Swimming World Cup

The following medals McIntosh has won at Swimming World Cup circuits.[46]

Edition Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals Total
2022 3 0 2 5
Total 3 0 2 5

Personal bests

Long course (50-meter pool)

Event Time[47] Venue Date Notes
200 m freestyle 1:54.79 Danube Arena, Budapest June 22, 2022 WJR
400 m freestyle 3:59.32 Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Smethwick August 3, 2022 NR
800 m freestyle 8:25.04 Tokyo Aquatics Centre, Tokyo July 29, 2021
1500 m freestyle 16:15.19 Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto May 7, 2021
200 m butterfly 2:05.20 Danube Arena, Budapest June 22, 2022 WJR, NR
200 m individual medley 2:08.70 Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Smethwick August 1, 2022 WJR
400 m individual medley 4:29.01 Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Smethwick July 29, 2022 WJR, AM, CR, NR

Short course (25-meter pool)

Event Time Venue Date Notes Ref
400 m freestyle 3:52.80 Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto 28 October 2022 WJR, AM, NR [38][39]
800 m freestyle 8:13.37 h Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi 17 December 2021 NR [21]
200 m backstroke 2:02.85 Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto 30 October 2022 [43]
200 m butterfly 2:03.40 Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis 3 November 2022 [45]
200 m individual medley 2:06.57 Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto 30 October 2022 [44]
400 m individual medley 4:21.49 Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Toronto 29 October 2022 WJR, NR [40][41]

Legend: h – preliminary heat

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