McIntosh breaks 3rd world record this week at Canadian swimming trials

Dion Caputi · CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 11, 2025 12:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 13

Summer McIntosh authored much past astatine Canadian swimming trials successful Victoria connected Wednesday, breaking her ain satellite grounds successful the women's 400-metre idiosyncratic medley.

The 18-year-old from Toronto touched the partition successful a clip of four minutes, 23.65 seconds, eclipsing her erstwhile grounds of 4:24.38, acceptable astatine past year's nationalist trials.

McIntosh present lays assertion to each of the apical 3 results successful the 400m IM's history.

She is the archetypal swimmer to interruption a satellite grounds successful 3 antithetic idiosyncratic events astatine 1 agelong people conscionable since Michael Phelps astatine the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The past pistillate to interruption 3 idiosyncratic satellite records astatine 1 agelong people conscionable was Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands astatine the 2000 Sydney Games, according to Olympic historiographer Bill Mallon of the OlyMADMen.

"I deliberation 400 IM is the contention I've travel adjacent to mastering for myself," McIntosh told CBC Sports' Devin Heroux.

"Happy to spell champion time. I deliberation there's inactive tons of country for betterment successful and retired of the turns. ... wide blessed with the time, but I cognize I tin spell faster."

WATCH | McIntosh breaks her ain 400m IM satellite record, 3rd world grounds from 2025 trials:

McIntosh has besides breached worlds records successful the 400m freestyle and the 200m IM implicit the past 4 days, portion besides notching national records successful the 800m freestyle and 200m butterfly.

Wednesday's effect concludes McIntosh's 2025 trials, successful what undoubtedly has been 1 of the astir palmy idiosyncratic swimming meets ever.

She present looks to crook the leafage and absorption on world championships successful Singapore from July 27-Aug. 3.

"Now that I'm done [at trials], I tin benignant of chill out. I've got a treble time for training," McIntosh laughed.

"You truly conscionable usage this arsenic information and besides validation for my grooming truthful far, and conscionable to support pushing and moving guardant and moving adjacent harder from present until Singapore."

WATCH | The Ready Room recaps each of Wednesday's action in Victoria:

This latest benchmark effect is the ninth wide satellite grounds show of McIntosh's career.

Fans turned up successful droves astatine the Saanich Commonwealth Place pool, expressing large enactment for McIntosh passim the competition, endeavouring to spur the young prima connected successful her momentous pursuit.

"I cannot convey immoderate of these radical enough. It's perfectly astonishing to spot everyone successful the stands and the posters," McIntosh said.

Finishing 2nd successful the contention was Mary-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Rivières, Que., whose 4:35.56 clip volition suffice her to vie successful the lawsuit astatine the satellite championship.

Ekk surges to men's 200m backstroke record

Ethan Ekk, who was calved successful Tallahassee, Fla., but has Canadian parents from Vancouver, won the men's 200m backstroke successful a nationalist grounds clip of 1:56.54.

The 18-year-old, who competes for the Stanford University aquatics team, surpassed the erstwhile nationalist grounds of 1:56.74, acceptable successful 2024 by Blake Tierney.

WATCH | Ekk makes a statement, winning 200m backstroke successful Canadian grounds time:

Tierney, a 23-year-old Olympian from Saskatoon, placed 2nd successful the lawsuit with a clip of 1:57.04.

Ekk expressed excitement and astonishment astatine his last result, saying helium did not expect to interaction the partition successful a sub-1:57 time.

"Not astatine all. I thought I was going to go, like, 57 [seconds] high, and 56.5 is precise unimaginable, truthful I'm precise blessed with that time," Ekk said.

"I was conscionable hoping contiguous I could spell nether 58," helium added.

Both Ekk and Tierney volition beforehand to vie successful the subject astatine the satellite championship.

Bennett astir breaks ain Para record

Nicholas Bennett of Parksville, B.C., came conscionable abbreviated of breaking his ain SM14 satellite grounds (2:05.97) successful the Para men's 200m idiosyncratic medley.

The two-time Paralympic champion, who grew up swimming successful the Saanich Commonwealth Place excavation and had household successful attendance, won his lawsuit in a clip of 2:06.36.

As helium present turns absorption to the satellite championship, helium says helium tin physique upon Wednesday's result.

"With that contention close present and five months to bid conscionable starring into [worlds], it's exciting," Bennett said.

"When we get a small much endurance nether our loop we'll beryllium capable to situation my satellite grounds again."

Bennett says he's been flat hunting successful Montreal and plans to determination determination pursuing worlds successful September.

Other results connected Day 5

• Tristan Jankovics won the men's 400m idiosyncratic medley successful a clip of 4:13.15.
• Jordan Tucker, SM14 class, completed the women's 150m idiosyncratic medley in 3:41.18.
• Jaime Cosgriffe, SM10 class, took the women's 200m idiosyncratic medley in 2:35.57.
• Madison Kryger won the women's 200m backstroke successful a clip of 2:09.88 to cap Day 5 finals.