Summer McIntosh of Toronto, Ontario set the world record in the women’s 400 metre freestyle swimming event on Tuesday at the Canadian Swimming Trials at the Toronto Pan Am Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Her time of three minutes, 56.08 seconds broke the previous time of Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who had a time of 3:56.40.
This is the latest significant accomplishment for McIntosh, who will be a strong medal contender for Canada at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris next summer. At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary a year ago, she won the gold medal in the women’s 200 metre butterfly and the women’s 400 metre individual medley, a silver medal in the women’s 400 metre freestyle, and a bronze medal in the women’s 4×200 metre freestyle with teammates Kayla Sanchez of Markham, Ontario, Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, British Columbia, and Penny Oleksiak of Toronto, Ontario.
In the women’s 400 metre freestyle swimming event from a year ago, McIntosh posted a second place time of 3:59.39. At the time, it was a national record. McIntosh then beat that time with a clocking of 3:59.32 in winning the silver medal in the women’s 400 metre freestyle swimming event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
The gold medalist at the 2022 World Aquatics Championship in the women’s 400 metre freestyle was Katie Ledecky of the United States with a time of 3:58.15. The gold medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the women’s 400 metre freestyle was Titmus with a time of 3:58.06. Titmus’s previous world record came at the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide.
