Flash! Summer McIntosh Sets 200 IM World Record 2:05.70
Bell Canadian Trials are three days old. Summer McIntosh has two world records and one near miss.
McIntosh won the women’s 200 individual medley in 2:05.70. The swim downs Katinka Hosszu’s record of 2:06.12 set in 2015, a record two months shy of 10 years old.
“It’s awesome,” McIntosh said on the CBC broadcast. “The 200 IM, I think, is my main race out of my top five, six races where I really have to execute perfectly. There’s no room for mistakes, and it’s kind of a sprint event for me. So overall, really happy with that. It gives me a lot of confidence heading into Singapore.”
Splits from McIntosh’s swim Monday night at Saanich Commonwealth Place, plus her splits from her gold medal at the Paris Olympics and Hosszu’s record splits.
- Summer McIntosh, 2025: 27.19 – 30.80 – 37.76 – 29.95 – 2:05.70
- Summer McIntosh, 2024: 26.80 – 31.80 – 37.53 – 30.43 – 2:06.56
- Katinka Hosszu, 2015: 27.30 – 31.64 – 36.70 – 30.48 – 2:06.12
McIntosh, who will swim the 200 backstroke later in the week, was a full second quicker in the backstroke split than she was last year. She still gives ground to Hosszu in breaststroke, but McIntosh came home in under 30 seconds to get the record.
“Breaststroke has always been my weakest, so just getting through that 50,” she said. “Trying to get to the wall and knowing that I’ll be really strong in my last 50 because my last 50s have been great here so far. So overall, really happy with that time, and I’m always trying to keep pushing forward.”
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Hosszu’s world record was nearing its 10-year anniversary, having been set at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia. When Hosszu posted that time, it erased the previous record of 2:06.15, recorded by the United States’ Ariana Kukors at the 2009 World Championships. That meet featured 40-plus world records and was defined by the use of polyurethane suits that were banned at the start of 2010.
🇨🇦 Summer McIntosh says coming into these trials she could do something special in every single event.
She has two world records and a Canadian record with two more events to come.
My latest conversation with the newest 200m individual world record holder. pic.twitter.com/xPHKOnACLZ
— Devin Heroux (@Devin_Heroux) June 10, 2025
McIntosh’s victory in Paris required defeating American Kate Douglass, who also went sub-2:07 with a swim of 2:06.92 for the silver medal.
The 18-year-old’s world record in the 200 individual medley is the first for McIntosh in an event under 400 meters in the long-course pool. It complements her global standards in the 400 freestyle and 400 IM. In the short-course pool, McIntosh owns world records in the 200 butterfly and 400 IM.
McIntosh set the world record Saturday night in the 400 free and got within a second of Katie Ledecky’s 800 free mark Sunday night.