
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Summer McIntosh of Toronto, Ontario won the 2024 Bobbie Rosenfeld Award on Thursday. The award is presented to the Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year.
McIntosh won three gold medals for Canada at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Her gold medals came in the women’s 200 metre butterfly, women’s 200 metre individual medley, and women’s 400 metre individual medley. She also won silver in the women’s 400 metre freestyle. McIntosh’s three gold medals were the most gold medals won by a Canadian at a single Olympic Games, and her four Olympic medals are tied with fellow swimmer Penny Oleksiak of Toronto, Ontario for the most total medals won by a Canadian at a single Olympic Summer Games. Oleksiak won four medals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In addition to winning three Olympic gold medals, McIntosh set the World Record in the women’s 400 metre individual medley (4:24.38) at the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto, the Olympic record in the women’s 200 metre butterfly (2:03.03), and the Olympic record in the women’s 200 metre individual medley (2:06.56). Then in December, McIntosh won five medals at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
This is the second time McIntosh has won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award. She previously won in 2023. In all, three Canadian swimmers have won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award twice. The other two are Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Ontario (1954 and 1955), and Mary Stewart of Vancouver, British Columbia (1961 and 1962).