Summer McIntosh swimming 3: 54.18 to break 400 world record free of 1.2 seconds

2025 Canadian swimming trials

400 free swimming for women – finals

• World record: 3: 55.38 – Ariarne TitmusAustralia (2023)
• Canadian record: 3: 56.08 – Summer McIntosh (2023)
• Standard aquatics ‘a’: 4: 10.23
• Canadian World Juniors Standard: 4: 16.52

Summer McIntosh kicked Canadian swimming tests with a blow as she demolished Ariarne Titmus“World record of 3: 55.38 to 400 m free. She swam 3: 54.18 to also take almost two seconds from her own Canadian record in case of 3: 56.08, which was also a world record when she swam it.

The race starts 2:02:08 after the start of the stream

McIntosh took Olympic money behind Titmus in Paris last summer, and the 400 Libre is an event in which she has not yet won an international gold medal. Katie Ledecky Returning to 3:56 in Pro Swim format last month in Fort Lauderdale, McIntosh suddenly becomes the crushing favorite to win in Singapore this summer.

What was the most striking in this swimming is the way McIntosh divided the race. When she established the previous record, she was released like a ball, dividing 1: 55.91 before returning home in 2: 00.17. This time, she was outside a slower half second but returned home to a phenomenal 1: 57.76. It was more than half a second faster than on the previous record of Titmus, the one where she blew up the ground in the last 100.

Speaking after the race, McIntosh said:

“Upon entering this evening, I knew that my training had been really good in recent months and I knew I could do something special,” she said. “Being able to put this training in the race, I mean, I didn’t think it would result in a 54.1, but I’m really happy with that overall.”

“To be honest, I didn’t really feel much pain in this race. I felt so strong throughout and this is never the case in the 400 Freestyle for me. These last 100, I usually hurt really. But I returned the 200 and I was just cruising. I knew that I was swimming hard and that I could say it by the crowd and the way they encouraged that I was probably close to the world record, so I really tried to push this last part for them. “”

The Canadian phenomenon recently trained in France with CN of Antibes under Coach Fred Vergnoux In preparation for the 2025 world championships.

Swimwam initially reported that McIntosh assisted A three -week altitude training camp in the Pyrenees mountains with CN of Antibes, but in April, the club shared on social networks that McIntosh was still preparing for the 2025 worlds with the program. She returned to Canada recently in preparation for Canadian swimming tests, and will move to join the professional group of Bob Bowman in Texas After the conclusion of the world championships in August.

Tonight has marked the second world record that McIntosh set in the 400m free this season, after having made the world short course championships in Budapest in December. She broke Li bingjieThe record of more than a second in 3: 50.25, and has also set new world notes in the 200 Mouche and 400 IM, taking its counting for the season now at four, and since it broke the world record of 400 IM during Canadian tests during each of the last two years may not be done.