Summer McIntosh sets another world record at Canadian swimming trials, this time in 400m individual medley
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Summer McIntosh has broken another world record at the national swimming trials.
It's her second world record this week at the place they call the fastest pool in Canada.
She is the first Canadian woman since Elaine Tanner in 1967 to hold two long course world records.
With her family in the crowd and many more fans cheering wildly inside the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, McIntosh powered her way to a time of 4:25.87 in the 400-metre individual medley to break Katinka Hosszú's seven-year record.
Hosszú's time of 4:26:36 was set in August 2016.
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"It's obviously really amazing and I'm happy to get another world record. Right now I'm just thinking about my legs. The 400m IM is one of the toughest events out there so going into tonight, whatever the time was, the time would be," McIntosh told CBC Sports.
"Just tried to do my best and whatever that is I would be happy with it."
McIntosh is the first swimmer in history to hold both the 400m freestyle and 400m individual medley long course world records at the same time.
Before Saturday night's world record swim, her previous best time and national record was 4:28.61. That was set in December of last year.
Throughout the majority of the race on Saturday night McIntosh was under world record pace but fell behind it after the breaststroke.
After 350m she was half a second behind the record and finished half a second ahead of the world record. Her closing freestyle split was 29.69.
"Breaststroke is definitely my weakest stroke and I knew that. I know in training I need to improve on that. In the freestyle I always like to look at the clock and I think I saw 26.1 or something and I thought, just go, go crazy," she said.
"I just gave it everything I got and I knew it would be close."
