Flash! Summer McIntosh Sets 200 IM Record 2:05.70
Bell Canadian Trials are three days old. Summer McIntosh has two world records and one near miss.
McIntosh won the women’s 200 individual medley in 2:05.70. That downs Katinka Hosszu’s record of 2:06.12 set in 2015, a record two months shy of 10 years old.
Splits from McIntosh’s swim Monday night at Saanich Commonwealth Place, plus her splits from her gold medal at the Paris Olympics and Hosszu’s record splits.
- Summer McIntosh, 2025: 27.19 – 30.80 – 37.76 – 29.95 – 2:05.70
- Summer McIntosh, 2024: 26.80 – 31.80 – 37.53 – 30.43 – 2:06.56
- Katinka Hosszu, 2015: 27.30 – 31.64 – 36.70 – 30.48 – 2:06.12
McIntosh, who will swim the 200 backstroke later in the week, was a full second quicker in the backstroke split than she was last year. She still gives ground to Hosszu in breaststroke, but McIntosh came home in under 30 seconds to get the record.
Hosszu’s world record was nearing its 10-year anniversary, having been set at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia. When Hosszu posted that time, it erased the previous world record of 2:06.15, recorded by the United States’ Ariana Kukors at the 2009 World Championships. That meet featured 40-plus world records and was defined by the use of polyurethane suits that were banned at the start of 2010.
McIntosh’s victory in Paris required McIntosh to defeat American Kate Douglass, who also went sub-2:07 with a swim of 2:06.92 for the silver medal.
The 18-year-old’s world record in the 200 individual medley is the first for McIntosh under 400 meters in the long-course pool and complements her global standards in the 400 freestyle and 400 IM. In the short-course pool, McIntosh owns world records in the 200 butterfly and 400 medley.
McIntosh set the world record Saturday night in the 400 free and got within a second of Katie Ledecky’s 800 free mark Sunday night.
