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Budapest, Hungary — 15-year-old Summer Macintosh He was the first Canadian to win two gold medals at the FINA World Swimming Championships on Saturday. Women's 400-meter individual medley victory.
The Canadian swimming team added the world's best medal performance in the pool and won the podium two more times on the final day.
Women's 4x100m medley relay won the bronze medal as anchor Penny Oleksiak became Canada's most decorated swimmer in nine medals at the World Championships. Added.
Canada closed the world with 11 medals (3 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze) and won the third podium after the United States and Australia. .. The best medals before
were eight medals in the world in 2019 held in Gwangju, South Korea. In the
400 individual medley, McIntosh set her world junior record of 4: 32.04, with Katie Grimes of the United States in second place at 4: 32.67. Another American, Emma Weyant, was third at 4: 36.00.
Last week, Macintosh won a gold medal in the 200m butterfly, a silver medal in the 400m freestyle, and Canada's bronze medal in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay. I helped. Her three individual medals were all World Junior Marks.
On 311 days in 2015, McIntosh was the second youngest winner of the 400 women's individual medley, after Tracy Colekins of the United States, who was 15-224 in the 1978 victory. is.
Macintosh is also the first Canadian to win four medals in a single world.
However, in the women's 4x100 medley relay final, Canada recorded 3 minutes 55.01 seconds, so Oleksiak and Kayla Sanchez added names to the 4-medal club. Also, it was Kylie Masse, Rachel Nicol and Maggie Mack Neil who swam in the final.
This was Nicole's first career world medal.
This week she won a gold medal in a 50-meter backstroke and a silver medal in a 100-meter backstroke, tying Masse in second place overall with her eight career medals. I did.
In qualifying, McNeil was joined by Ingrid Wilm, Kelsey Wog and Sanchez. Sanchez was on the podium this week with three other relays. Bronze was a female 4x200 freestyle and a 4x100 freestyle, and silver was a mixed 4x100 freestyle.
In the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay, Canada was 11th in qualifying, with Javier Asebed, James Delgosov, Joshua Liend and Ruslan Gaziev recording 3: 35.62.
Liendo was a big Canadian men's star this week, with 100 free bronze, silver 100 fly and silver mixed 4X100 free relay.
Open water swimming will begin in Budapest on Sunday.
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