Multi-champion Katie Ledecky, surpassed.
Multi-champion Katie Ledecky, surpassed. Her black beast on the Tokyo Video games, Ariarne Titmus, pulverized. And all with simply 16 years. The Canadian Summer season McIntosh is the brand new younger swimming prodigy, an rising determine who had been warning concerning the Japanese Olympic occasion, who gained her first common gold medals final summer time in Budapest and who final morning, on the nationwide championships, signed her first absolute class world report. It was a matter of time and McIntosh broke the clock within the 400-meter freestyle, the one which ventures as the feminine queen take a look at on the Paris Video games. She touched the wall in 3m56s8, reducing Titmus' mark (3m56s40). Solely 4 ladies have dropped under 4 minutes. The three already talked about and one Federica Pellegrini. On this poker of aces is McIntosh.
In Budapest she had already lowered that barrier however was second within the 400 meters behind Ledecky (3m58s15). However in simply 9 months she's taken a three-second chunk out of her model. Her season is popping out to be sensational and this July on the Fukuoka World Cups there might be a fantastic present if Ledecky and Titmus additionally attend. At her age, McIntosh's margin of evolution continues to be nice and he or she is already a breath away from being the primary to cowl the 400 meters in 3m55. “Usually I do not get so emotional however this time I cried. Not due to the report, however as a result of I did not assume she would make it tonight,” McIntosh mentioned.
The truth that he has achieved his first world report is one thing to a sure extent logical for what he had been anticipating. Nonetheless within the junior class initially of March he broke three world data of his age in three days (200 and 400 medley and the 200 free).
As a result of McIntosh's versatility is one in every of his virtues and he'll in all probability be capable to swim as much as seven occasions in Paris 2024. She has every part to grow to be a medal collector. In actual fact, within the 2022 World Cup, she has already hung 4 (two golds, one silver and one bronze).
Outdoors of the swimming pools, the Canadian additionally strikes in an excellent surroundings. She is the youngest of a rich household from Toronto, the place the place she has set the report. Her mom, Jill Horstead, had been a swimmer within the Eighties. She was on the 1984 Los Angeles Video games and was a 1986 Commonwelth medalist (200 fly). Her mum or dad Greg is a profitable businessman. Her sister, Brooke, a yr older, can be a top-level athlete, an Olympian in determine skating, and a bronze medalist on the final World Cup. The British Ben Titley, who presently works within the CAR of Sant Cugat, was the one who drove all his preparation till the Tokyo Video games.
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