{"id":510587,"date":"2022-08-03T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=510587"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:31:13","slug":"summer-mcintosh-shows-speed-fulfills-promise-with-six-medals-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/summer-mcintosh-shows-speed-fulfills-promise-with-six-medals-at-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer McIntosh Shows Speed, Fulfills Promise With Six Medals at Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer McIntosh Shows Speed, Fulfills Promise With Six Medals at Commonwealth Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

For two years, we have seen glimpses of what\u00a0Summer McIntosh<\/strong> could be. A 14-year-old narrowly missing the podium in an individual event at the Olympics makes the world take notice, and after she debuted as primarily a freestyler in Tokyo, McIntosh began flashing in the butterfly and individual medley events as well. But now, we have seen McIntosh’s vast talent on display at two championship-level events, the World Championships in Budapest<\/a> and now the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

At the World Championships, McIntosh, now 15, finished second behind only Katie Ledecky<\/strong> in the 400 freestyle, took individual gold medals in the 200 fly and 400 IM and led off Canada’s bronze-medal-winning 800 free relay team in a time that would have won gold in the individual 200 free. At the Commonwealth Games, the teenager skipped the 200 fly<\/a> to avoid overloading her schedule, but in her other two Worlds events, she was better.<\/p>\n

In a dominant effort in the 400 IM, she swam the fastest time in the world in six years, a 4:29.01 that only Olympic champions Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> and\u00a0Ye Shiwen<\/strong> have ever surpassed<\/a>. She could not keep pace with\u00a0Ariarne Titmus<\/strong> in the 400 free, but she knocked a few hundredths off her Worlds time, and she remains one of only four women to ever break the 4:00 barrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK, that’s two medals \u2014 but McIntosh won six at the Commonwealth Games. Her other individual race was the 200 IM, a race that McIntosh called “more of a sprinting event for me,” and she out-dueled the World Championships silver medalist in the event, Kaylee McKeown<\/strong>, as she swam a time of 2:08.70 to crush the world junior record by more than a second and less than a tenth off the Canadian record held by standout\u00a0Sydney Pickrem<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

That gave McIntosh a top-four time in the world for 2022 in five separate individual events. Here is the rundown:<\/p>\n