Summer McIntosh sets new world record in 400m individual medley
Summer McIntosh set a new world record in the 400m individual medley with a time of 4:24.38 at the 2024 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials. McIntosh swam nearly a second and a half under her previous world record of 4:25.87, which she set in Toronto last year during the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials.
With this performance, she has secured a quota to swim in the 400 IM at Paris 2024.
This would be McIntosh’s first time swimming the 400m individual medley in the Olympics. When asked about her goal for Paris, McIntosh said, “To just go out there and have fun, 400 IM is an event where it’s all about strategy and pacing the front half and always trying to work that breaststroke because it is my weakest stroke, so I’m just excited to do it in Paris.”
McIntosh thanked the crowd for cheering her on: “It was awesome, the crowd was absolutely electric. I heard all you guys during the breaststroke—it really kept me going, so thank you.”
The is McIntosh’s third win of the Olympic trials. On the first day of the trials, she won the 400m freestyle and followed it up the next day with a win in the 200m freestyle.
McIntosh will compete in three more events over the following three days: the 100m freestyle, the 200m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. The seven-day event concludes on Sunday, 19 May.
As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.
