Summer Ann McIntosh was born on August 18,2006 and is a Canadian competitive swimmer.
39 Facts About Summer McIntosh
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Summer McIntosh is a three-time Olympic champion, four-time World Aquatics champion, and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
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Summer McIntosh's older sister Brooke is a competitive pair skater.
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Summer McIntosh has broken over 50 age group national swimming records.
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Summer McIntosh followed this up with a win in the 800 metre freestyle event, in another personal best time of 8:29.49.
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Summer McIntosh was the youngest person named to the Canadian Olympic team.
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Summer McIntosh was third at the halfway mark but passed Siobhan Haughey and held on to the second position, finishing behind Li Bingjie.
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At the national swimming trials, Summer McIntosh won titles in the 200 metre and 400 metre freestyle, the 200 metre butterfly, and the 400 metre individual medley, before scratching from the 800 metre freestyle.
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Summer McIntosh made her senior FINA World Aquatics Championships debut at the 2022 edition in Budapest, Hungary, with her first event being the 400 metre freestyle.
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Summer McIntosh finished second in the final, taking the silver medal with a new personal best and national record time of 3:59.39.
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Summer McIntosh was only the fourth woman in history to record a time of under four minutes.
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Summer McIntosh set another world junior record in the semi-final of the 200 metre butterfly with a 2:05.79 time, exceeding her own as-yet-unratified record from the Canadian swimming trials.
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Summer McIntosh was the first 15-year-old to win a World title since China's Ye Shiwen in 2011, and the youngest Canadian world champion in history, surpassing 18-year-old Victor Davis in 1982.
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Summer McIntosh became the first Canadian swimmer to win two gold medals at a single World Championships, and set a new record for the most medals won by a Canadian at a single World Championships, which would be tied later that same day by Penny Oleksiak and Kayla Sanchez.
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Summer McIntosh opted not to contest the 200 metre butterfly there, citing the need to focus on other events.
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Summer McIntosh finished 7.77 seconds ahead of silver medallist Kiah Melverton, and was the first Canadian gold medallist of the Games.
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Summer McIntosh won the gold medal, defeating reigning World silver medallist Kaylee McKeown of Australia and setting a new world junior record.
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On October 28, at the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup in Toronto, and conducted in short course metres, Summer McIntosh set a new world junior record, World Cup record, Americas record, and Canadian record in the 400 metre freestyle on day one, finishing in a time of 3:52.80 in the final to win the gold medal.
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Summer McIntosh drew headlines early in 2023 with performances at the 2023 Pro Swim Series event in Fort Lauderdale, first lowering her national and world junior records in the 200 metre butterfly.
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Summer McIntosh became the first swimmer in history to hold both the 400 m freestyle and 400 m individual medley long course world records at the same time.
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Summer McIntosh improved her own world junior records in three other events at the meet.
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Summer McIntosh's first event of the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was a highly-anticipated 400 metre freestyle, touted as a three-way contest between her, Titmus and Ledecky.
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Summer McIntosh came third in the heats, but in the final she finished narrowly in fourth place, being overtaken for bronze in the final stretch by New Zealander Erika Fairweather.
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Summer McIntosh competed in the 200 m freestyle at the World Championships for the first time, finishing second in the semi-finals, 0.03 back of Titmus and 0.24 ahead of Mollie O'Callaghan.
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Summer McIntosh came third in the event final, out touching reigning Olympic silver medallist Siobhan Haughey for the bronze.
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The team, depleted of some of its most important members from years prior, finished in fifth, but Summer McIntosh's 1:53.97 was the second-fastest in the event, behind Titmus, and the ninth-fastest of all time to that point.
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Summer McIntosh's 53.48 time was an improvement by almost a second and a half over her performance in the earlier freestyle relay.
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Summer McIntosh went on to defend her gold medal in the 400 m individual medley, defeating Israeli silver medallist Anastasia Gorbenko by almost eight seconds.
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Summer McIntosh was a finalist in voting for the Northern Star Award, given to the Canadian athlete of the year, and received the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as the Canadian Press' choice for Canadian female athlete of the year.
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Summer McIntosh drew headlines in early February when she defeated Katie Ledecky at a sectional event in Orlando, becoming the first person to outpace Ledecky in the 800 metre distance since 2010.
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Summer McIntosh would go on to win the 100 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley.
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Summer McIntosh was the centre of attention at Canada's Olympic swimming trials, which featured audiences, unlike in the pandemic-afflicted 2021 events.
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Summer McIntosh drew headlines on the fourth day in the 400 m individual medley, where she broke her own world record with a 4:24.38, an improvement of a second and a half.
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Summer McIntosh finished more than fourteen seconds ahead of second-place Ella Jansen.
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Summer McIntosh won the silver medal, finishing 0.88 seconds behind Titmus but more than two seconds clear of Ledecky and the rest of the field.
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Summer McIntosh then entered the 400 m individual medley as the heavy favourite.
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Summer McIntosh became the first Canadian to win three gold medals at a single Summer Olympics, and with four total medals she tied teammate Penny Oleksiak for the most Canadian medals in a single Olympics.
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Summer McIntosh won another gold medal in the 200 m butterfly, setting a second short course world record by breaking Spaniard Mireia Belmonte's decade-old best time.
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Summer McIntosh took the silver medal and set a national and world junior record time of 1:59.96.