{"id":526489,"date":"2023-03-28T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=526489"},"modified":"2023-03-29T04:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:45:04","slug":"flash-summer-mcintosh-takes-down-400-freestyle-world-record-with-356-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-summer-mcintosh-takes-down-400-freestyle-world-record-with-356-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Trials: Summer McIntosh Takes Down 400 Freestyle World Record; Ingrid Wilm Edges Kylie Masse In 100 Backstroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

FLASH! Summer McIntosh Takes Down 400 Freestyle World Record With 3:56.06<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the the first time in her career,\u00a0Summer McIntosh<\/strong> is a world-record holder. On the first night of the Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto, the 16-year-old lowered the long course global standard in the women’s 400 freestyle. She swam a time of 3:56.06 to knock more than three tenths off the previous mark of 3:56.40 set by\u00a0Ariarne Titmus<\/strong> last May. Titmus had broken Katie Ledecky’s<\/strong> six-year-old world record of 3:56.46 set at the Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n

Previously, McIntosh was the fourth-fastest performer in history in the event behind Titmus,\u00a0Ledecky and Federica Pellegrini<\/strong> with her 3:59.32 from last year’s Commonwealth Games, where she earned silver behind Titmus. McIntosh also was the silver medalist behind Ledecky at the 2022 World Championships, a race where she broke the 4:00 barrier for the first time. McIntosh had been looming as a significant threat to Titmus and Ledecky’s dominance of the 400 free, and it seemed like only a matter of time until she arrived at world-record territory<\/a>, but the teenager needed just eight months to wipe three seconds from her best time and become the third swimmer in the 3:56 club.<\/p>\n

In a comparison of McIntosh’s splits against the previous top results from Titmus and Ledecky, the Canadian teenager was much quicker over the first half the race, including a front-half split of 1:55.91 that was actually faster than the 200 free bronze-medal-winning time from last year’s World Championships. McIntosh was actually one-and-a-half seconds under world-record pace with 100 meters to go. The superimposed world-record line got closer to Titmus down the stretch, but she had built enough of a margin to hang on.<\/p>\n