Teenage swimmer Summer McIntosh smashed the 400m freestyle world record, shaving more than three-tenths of a second off the previous mark
The 16-year-old completed the race in three minutes, 56.08 seconds on Tuesday evening, breaking defending Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus’ previous record of 3:56.40, which was set last May. “I’m not a crier,” the swimmer – who had already set numerous Canadian and junior records before her first world record – said after the race. “It’s absolutely incredible. I’m not an emotional person, but I was hit with so much emotion. Pure euphoria right now.
It was never in my dreams to do this tonight or even a few years ago. This just blows my mind.” The Canadian teen made her Olympic debut aged 14 at Tokyo 2020, where she finished fourth in the 200-meter freestyle. She bagged gold in the 200m butterfly and 400m medley at the world championships in 2022, as well as two golds at the Commonwealth Games in the 200m and 400m medleys. She now trains in Florida under coach Brent Arckey with the Sarasota Sharks team.
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