McIntosh captures Canadian record in women's 200m butterfly at national trials in Victoria

Dion Caputi · CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 10, 2025 12:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 13

Summer McIntosh added yet different feather successful her historical headdress connected Day 4 of Canadian Swimming trials successful Victoria connected Tuesday.

The superstar teen from Toronto won the women's 200-metre butterfly last successful a Canadian grounds clip of 2 minutes, 2.26 seconds, giving her the second-best show successful the past of the lawsuit behind China's Liu Zige (2009).

"I really deliberation I fertile this contention higher than immoderate of my different ones," McIntosh told CBC Sports' Devin Heroux aft the race.

"I would astir complaint it higher than the 200m IM conscionable due to the fact that I deliberation this satellite grounds is the hardest 1 to get. ... Really blessed with the 2:02-low. Going into contiguous I didn't cognize if that was possible."

WATCH | McIntosh wins women's 200m butterfly last successful Canadian grounds time:

Although she was pleased with the performance, McIntosh suggested there's country for betterment successful the event.

"I deliberation my past changeable was conscionable a small spot wonky, truthful I deliberation I person astatine slightest point-one, point-two successful that alone. I tin decidedly find the different small bits and pieces passim the race," McIntosh said.

"The information that I'm knocking connected the doorway connected that satellite grounds is really, truly encouraging due to the fact that that's the satellite grounds that I ne'er thought I would adjacent travel adjacent to."

The 18-year-old has already taken down the satellite 400m freestyle and 200m idiosyncratic medley marks, portion mounting a Canadian grounds successful the 800m freestyle at this year's nationalist trials alone.

McIntosh volition further look to rewrite history when competing successful the women's 400m idiosyncratic medley, wherever she owns the satellite record, on Wednesday, and the 200m freestyle on the last time of trials Thursday.

McIntosh has scratched the 200m backstroke from her Wednesday docket aft initially being entered.

WATCH | The Ready Room examines each the highlights from Tuesday astatine trials:

Penny fast, victorious again

Seven-time Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak was accelerated again connected Day 4, winning the women's 100m freestyle successful a sterling clip of 54.03.

The prolific 24-year-old's effect met the Aqua A clip standard, meaning she volition vie successful this lawsuit astatine the satellite title successful Singapore.

"I'm excited to beryllium done this race. I'm blessed that it's over," she laughed.

Stacking prime performances unneurotic connected consecutive nights, Oleksiak volition besides vie successful the women's 50m freestyle astatine worlds aft winning that lawsuit connected Day 3 of trials.

As Oleksiak continues moving her mode back from aggregate surgeries that constricted her quality to bid and compete, Tuesday's effect inches her person to her ain Canadian grounds of 52.59, acceptable astatine the Tokyo Games successful 2021.

Gaziev back, books summons to worlds

Another swimmer advancing to the satellite championships, which volition beryllium held from July 27-Aug. 3., volition beryllium Ruslan Gaziev.

Back from an 18-month suspension for a whereabouts failure, the 25-year-old who resides successful Toronto posted a clip of 48.37 successful the men's 100m freestyle.

That figure meets the secondary modular clip required to unafraid his spot successful Singapore.

"I started grooming again astatine the opening of April ... arsenic things started to advancement and my grooming was beauteous good, I started to summation my expectations a small bit," Gaziev said.

After spending 12 months distant from the pool, Gaziev expressed gratitude for the accidental to instrumentality to his passionateness and the position gained successful the clip distant from the sport.

"Not being capable to bash what I emotion conscionable made maine truthful grateful erstwhile I came back, and made maine recognize that you can't instrumentality this worldly for granted," Gaziev said.

More nationalist Para records achieved

Nicholas Bennett of Parksville, B.C. raced to a men's S14 100m butterfly nationalist record, touching the partition successful a clip of 57.50.

Bennett, 21, captured 3 medals astatine the 2024 Paralympics, including golds successful the SB14 100m breaststroke and SM14 200m idiosyncratic medley.

WATCH | Bennett breaks men's S14 100m nationalist record:

Earlier, the budding 15-year-old Alyssa Smyth, who races for the Orangeville Otters successful Ontario, broke the women's S13 100m butterfly.

WATCH | 15-year-old Para endowment Smyth breaks nationalist women's S13 100m alert mark:

Kharun dominant successful men's 200m fly

Ilya Kharun of Montreal cruised to triumph successful the men's 200m butterfly last successful a clip of 1:53.41, narrowly falling abbreviated of his ain Canadian grounds clip of 1:52.80 acceptable astatine the Paris Games successful 2024.

The 20-year-old's effect connected Tuesday nighttime is the second-best men's 200m butterfly clip successful the satellite this year.

Kharun continues his beardown showing astatine trials aft he swam to triumph successful the men's 100m butterfly connected Sunday.