Summer McIntosh smashes women's 400m freestyle world record at Canadian swim trials

CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 07, 2025 9:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

Canadian Summer McIntosh smashed the women's 400-metre freestyle satellite grounds Saturday night, touching the wall in 3 minutes 54.18 seconds astatine the nationalist swimming trials successful Victoria.

McIntosh eclipsed the people acceptable by Australia's Ariarne Titmus (3:55.38) in 2023 astatine the world championships successful Fukuoka, Japan. She bushed the different swimmers by much than 13 seconds.

McIntosh celebrated her 4th vocation long-course satellite grounds by slapping the h2o doubly with her close manus past pumping her fist.

It was an antithetic amusement of emotion from the usually stoic 18-year-old.

"Going into contiguous I knew that my grooming had been beardown the past mates months and I knew I was capable to bash thing special, but I did not deliberation I would beryllium that fast," McIntosh, who shaved the grounds by 1.20 seconds, told  CBC's Devin Heroux.

WATCH | McIntosh demolishes satellite grounds successful 3:54.18:

Ella Jansen of Burlington, Ont., finished 2nd successful 4:07.36, nether the World Aquatics qualifying clip of 4:10.23, and enough to beryllium selected to Team Canada for the July 26-Aug. 3 World Aquatics Championships successful Singapore.

The 400 escaped was her first-ever satellite grounds erstwhile she swam 3:56.08 astatine the 2023 Canadian trials, but Titmus lowered the people to 3:55.38 astatine satellite championships aboriginal that year. McIntosh finished down Titmus for metallic astatine past summer's Paris Olympics to spell with the golden medals she won successful the 200 and 400 idiosyncratic medley and 200 butterfly. 

She besides holds the 400 IM satellite record, positive the 400 free, 200 butterfly and 400 IM successful the abbreviated people pool.

After becoming the first women ever to aquatics nether 3:55.00, the world-record show even surprised the three-time Olympic champion. 

"I was truly not expecting that time," she said. "Just seeing the clip aft two years of truly pushing my hardest each day... and past yet having an astonishing aquatics successful it is truly really satisfying."

WATCH | McIntosh reflects connected 'amazing swim':

After proceeding American icon Micheal Phelps was the past 1 to acceptable a satellite grounds in the aforesaid Victoria pool, McIntosh shared a grin earlier saying, "I've ever looked up to Michael, helium is the GOAT of swimming". 

Saturday night's lawsuit is lone the opening for McIntosh. She inactive has races successful the women's 800m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, and some the 200m and 400m idiosyncratic medleys. 

"I'm truly excited to spot what I tin bash the adjacent mates of days".

Masse takes 100m backstroke

Five-time Olympic medallist, Kylie Masse won the women's 100m backstroke successful 58.18 seconds, beating her ain clip she swam astatine Paris 2024.

After the race, the 29-year-old from LaSalle, Ont. explained what made this contention peculiar for her. 

"This year's been antithetic for me, conscionable taking a small spot of a measurement backmost but evidently astatine the aforesaid clip inactive putting successful the work." 

WATCH | Masse wins women's 100m backstroke title:

And with that measurement backmost Masse added that being capable to walk clip with her loved ones "fills your cupful successful a full different way".

After taking down her 50m Canadian backstroke grounds a fewer weeks ago, Masse told CBC Sports, "I conscionable consciousness similar I person a antithetic position connected the athletics and I'm truly grateful to beryllium present inactive and beryllium capable to enactment down a clip that was faster than I did astatine the Olympics."

Mary-Sophie Harvey, of Laval, Que., won the women's 200m breaststroke successful a personal-best clip of 2:23.40. It was besides her archetypal trials win. 

"It's benignant of crazy," Harvey told CBC Sports's Devin Heroux. "I was telling my manager I've ne'er won an lawsuit astatine trials. I deliberation I've had truthful galore 2nd places, and I ne'er thought it would beryllium the 200 breaststroke for the archetypal one. I'm beauteous blessed wherever I'm astatine close now."

Other winners: 

• Oliver Dawson, Grande Prairie, Alta., men's 200m breaststroke (2:11.25).
• Cole Pratt, Regina, men's 100m backstroke (54.27).
• Ethan Ekk, men's 400m freestyle (3:49.57). Ekk hails from Tallahassee, Fla., but represents Canada connected the planetary stage. His parents met playing assemblage college volleyball in British Columbia, but moved to Florida implicit 20 years agone for work.
• Aly Van Wyck-Smart, Toronto, women's 50m breaststroke (SB2) (1:47.31).
• Ali Diehl, Prince Albert, Sask, women's 100m breaststroke (SB9) (1:24.44).
• Nicholas Bennett, Parksville, B.C., men's 100m breaststroke (SB14) (1:05.13).

Coverage of the nationalist swimming trials successful Victoria B.C. continues connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem from June 7-12th.

WATCH | CBC Sports' The Ready Room discusses storylines from nationalist aquatics trials:

Katie Ledecky dominates 1,500m for 3rd U.S. title 

Katie Ledecky won her 3rd nationalist rubric of the week connected Saturday erstwhile she cruised to a triumph successful the women's 1500 meters astatine the U.S. Swimming Championships successful Indianapolis.

Ledecky won the lawsuit successful 15 minutes, 36.76 seconds, which was 16 seconds shy of the satellite grounds she acceptable successful 2018.

"I conscionable wanted to enactment unneurotic a beauteous adjacent swim, clasp a bully pace," Ledecky said afterward. "That 1 hurt, but I'll instrumentality it."

Ledecky held a large pb passim the full race. Jillian Cox finished 29 seconds down successful 16:05.88 and Kate Hurst reached the partition successful 16:16.06.

Ledecky earned titles successful the 400 and 800 meters earlier successful the meet.