Summer Mcintosh secures fourth gold at Aquatics WM

The Canadian swimmer Summer Mcintosh celebrated an impressive victory at the World championships in Singapore and won their fourth gold medal in the 400-meter-layer race. With a time of 4: 25.78 she set up a new championship record and thus crowned an almost perfect championship with a total of five medals.

impressive achievements in swimming sports

The 18-year-old Mcintosh is now the only woman who has won so many gold medals in a single World Championship tournament, alongside the American icon Katie Ledecky . In addition, only the Swede Sarah Sjöström has reached the impressive Mcintosh medal yield. With her 800-meter freestyle bronze medal on Saturday, Mcintosh narrowly missed the record of Michael Phelps, who won five gold medals at a single World Cup.

mcintosh about their successes

"Overall, I am very satisfied with these world championships," said Mcintosh In interview with CBC News. "I have to be, I have never reached four gold medals on this large level. I have overcome my 'curse' of three medals - now everything comes in fourth, and hopefully I can switch to everything so that it comes into fifth."

superior performance in the 400-meter layer race

In the 400-meter layout, Mcintosh Australia's Jenna Forrester and Japan's Mio Narita, who shared the silver square with a time of 4: 33.26, was more than seven seconds. The twelve-year-old yu zidi from China, which was previously the latest medal winner in the history of the world championships, landed with a time that It was more than the third place, in fourth place.

entire medal yield of Mcintosh

Overall, Mcintosh now has 13 medals from the World Championships, including eight gold medals. In Singapore she also won 400 meters of freestyle, 200-meter butterfly and 200 meters.

success in the men's area

In the 400-meter layout of the men, France gets Léon Marchand Tournaments and thus completed the Medailien double. With a time of 4: 04.73 he secured first place before the Japanese Tomoyuki Matsushita and the Russian Ilia Borodin, who shared second and third place. This was his seventh career gold medal at the World Championships.