{"id":592888,"date":"2024-07-29T02:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=592888"},"modified":"2024-07-29T02:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:26:35","slug":"paris-olympics-day-3-prelims-emma-weyant-katie-grimes-1-2-in-400-im-prelims-with-summer-mcintosh-cruising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-3-prelims-emma-weyant-katie-grimes-1-2-in-400-im-prelims-with-summer-mcintosh-cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics, Day 3 Prelims: Emma Weyant, Katie Grimes 1-2 in 400 IM Prelims With Summer McIntosh Cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris Olympics, Day 3 Prelims: Emma Weyant, Katie Grimes 1-2 in 400 IM Prelims With Summer McIntosh Cruising<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entering the Olympic Games,\u00a0Summer McIntosh<\/strong> owned a personal-best time seven seconds ahead of anyone else entered in the women’s 400 IM. She is one of just two swimmers to break 4:30 in recent years, and the other, Australia’s\u00a0Kaylee McKeown<\/strong>, skipped the event at her country’s Olympic Trials. McIntosh, meanwhile, broke her world record in May with a time of 4:24.38. In this event, she is considered one of the few gold-medal locks all week in Paris.<\/p>\n

Two days after capturing her first Olympic medal (a silver) in the women’s 400 free, McIntosh entered the pool in heat two, lane four for the 400 IM and took control of her heat right away, only to significantly back off down the stretch. No need to exert herself amid a busy schedule that will also include the 200 butterfly, 200 IM and multiple relays, and McIntosh’s freestyle leg looked plenty relaxed as she did just enough to win her heat.<\/p>\n

McIntosh clocked 4:37.35, a whopping 13 seconds away from her own world record. That time will actually not be the quickest qualifying time as prior to McIntosh’s entry into the pool, the two American representatives starred in heat one of the event.<\/p>\n