{"id":614661,"date":"2025-06-10T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T01:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=614661"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:36:31","slug":"summer-mcintosh-scares-world-record-in-200-butterfly-sets-canadian-record-with-no-2-performance-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/summer-mcintosh-scares-world-record-in-200-butterfly-sets-canadian-record-with-no-2-performance-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer McIntosh Scares World Record in 200 Butterfly; Sets Canadian Record with No. 2 Performance in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer McIntosh Scares World Record in 200 Butterfly; Sets Canadian Record with No. 2 Performance in History<\/strong><\/p>\n

In late 2009, just before the sport’s ban on supersuits went into effect, Liu Zige<\/strong> packaged a stunning performance in the 200-meter butterfly. Racing at the Chinese National Games, the 2008 Olympic champion registered a time of 2:01.81, an effort that sliced 1.60 seconds from the previous world record of Australian Jessicah Schipper. The consensus reaction to Liu’s effort went a little like this: “She went what?”<\/p>\n

For more than a decade, Liu’s record has been largely deemed untouchable, but Canadian Summer McIntosh<\/strong> has altered that narrative.<\/p>\n

On Night Four of the Canadian Trials for this summer’s World Championships in Singapore, McIntosh gave Liu’s world record a scare before winning the 200 fly in 2:02.26, the second-fastest time in history. McIntosh’s victory marked her fourth Canadian record in as many nights in British Columbia.<\/p>\n