{"id":534746,"date":"2023-08-03T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=534746"},"modified":"2023-08-26T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:37:44","slug":"even-with-absences-canada-hits-6-medal-benchmark-at-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/even-with-absences-canada-hits-6-medal-benchmark-at-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Even with Absences, Canada Hit 6-Medal Benchmark at Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even with Absences, Canada Hits 6-Medal Benchmark at Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every appraisal of Canada\u2019s performance at the World Aquatics Championships last month came with a caveat. However promising the building blocks on display in Fukuoka, the understanding for the country, more than most in attendance, was of how incomplete the roster was.<\/p>\n

So entering the final day with four medals on the ledger, two of them from Summer McIntosh,<\/strong> didn\u2019t constitute a great shortfall. Nor did the last-night performance of a bronze medal and all-important relay qualification in the women\u2019s 400 medley, need to be a week-saving session.<\/p>\n

When all was said and done at the Marine Messe Hall, Canada emerged with six total medals \u2013 the same tally it had reaped from the Tokyo Olympics and from Rio seven years ago. Though well shy of the 11 from Budapest last year, it indicates a program building toward the next Olympics. It achieved that on the back of McIntosh\u2019s rising star, but without some of the relay cogs that should make it a contender when Paris rolls around.<\/p>\n