Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh is the Olympic champion in the women’s 400-metre individual medley.
The 17-year-old from Toronto became the first Canadian woman to take gold in the race that combines butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle in that order.
McIntosh won handily with a time of four minutes 27.71 seconds and touched the wall two body lengths ahead of silver medallist Katie Grimes of the United States, who was over five seconds behind. Emma Weyant of the U.S. took bronze.
McIntosh collected her second medal in Paris after a silver in 400-metre freestyle on opening night at the pool.
Toronto’s Summer McIntosh won her first-career Olympic gold medal at Paris 2024, and also became the first Canadian swimmer to win an Olympic 400-metre individual medley race.
She’s racing four individual events with the 200-metre medley and butterfly coming up later this week.
The teenager is also expected to race in the relay finals.
Mary-Sophie Harvey takes Canada back to the pool at 3.53 p.m. ET in the women’s 200m freestyle final.
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Toronto teen Summer McIntosh won her first-career Olympic medal, swimming to silver in the women’s 400m freestyle final. Australia’s Ariarne Titmus won gold, while American Katie Ledecky claimed bronze.