Coming off a historic efficiency on the Olympics in Paris, Summer time McIntosh will return to worldwide competitors to shut out 2024 on the Brief Course World Championships in Budapest.
McIntosh headlines an 18-swimmer roster for the championships revealed by Swimming Canada on Wednesday, and he or she’ll be joined by two different Paris Olympic medalists, Kylie Masse and Ilya Kharun, together with probably the most embellished Canadian feminine in Olympic historical past, Penny Oleksiak.
McIntosh turned the primary Canadian to win three gold medals at a single Olympics in Paris, popping out on high within the ladies’s 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM to go together with a silver medal efficiency within the 400 free.
This would be the 18-year-old’s second look at Brief Course Worlds, having made her debut on the 2021 championships in Abu Dhabi, successful gold as a member of the Canadian ladies’s 4×200 free relay and including silvers within the ladies’s 400 free and 4×100 medley relay.
“I’m excited to finish 2024 with the World Aquatics brief course championships at one in all my favourite venues and cities on this planet,” stated McIntosh, in response to Swimming Canada.
“Workforce Canada sometimes brings a smaller staff with numerous spirit able to embrace one other alternative to go up in opposition to the perfect. It must be numerous enjoyable to race brief course meters for the primary time in a few years and nice to see everybody once more.”
McIntosh notably claimed the primary two lengthy course world titles of her profession in Budapest, successful World Championship gold in 2022 within the 200 fly and 400 IM.
On the final version of Brief Course Worlds in 2022, held in Melbourne, the Canadian staff completed 4th on the medal desk with three gold and 14 whole medals.
Maggie MacNeil, who isn’t on the staff this 12 months, led the best way by successful three particular person titles, however there will probably be 4 swimmers on the 2024 roster who received particular person medals final day out: Masse, Kharun, Ingrid Wilm and Finlay Knox.
Masse has received a complete of 9 medals at Brief Course Worlds throughout three appearances, whereas Oleksiak received 4 medals at her final SC Worlds look on house soil at Windsor 2016.
The ladies’s roster additionally includes a pair of athletes competing within the NCAA this season, Regan Rathwell and Emma Finlin, plus 2024 Olympic finalists Sydney Pickrem and Mary-Sophie Harvey.
Along with Kharun and Knox, the boys’s staff options veteran sprinter Yuri Kisil and rising star Oliver Dawson.
Dawson, 16 is coming off successful three medals at Junior Pan Pacs in August.
“I’m excited to be named to my first senior staff,” stated Dawson. “I look ahead to competing in opposition to among the greatest swimmers on this planet. I’m able to embrace this unbelievable alternative and provides my all, making unforgettable recollections whereas representing my nation on the world stage.”
Kharun, Alex Axon and Tristan Jankovics give the boys’s roster three swimmers competing within the NCAA this season.
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“As we transfer ahead from a really profitable summer time that was centered on the Paris Olympic Video games and backed up with our most profitable Junior Pan Pacs efficiency, it’s nice to announce the world 25m championships staff for Budapest as the primary occasion within the quad to Los Angeles 2028,” stated Excessive Efficiency Director and Nationwide Coach John Atkinson. “We’ve got some nice potential on this staff and a mix of medal-winning expertise and new athletes to the senior staff.”
Though Swimming Canada has not but launched which occasions their swimmers will contest, it’s thrilling to venture what sort of schedule McIntosh will tackle in Budapest.
Regardless of solely racing brief course meters at a choose variety of meets over the previous couple of years, McIntosh at present owns the Canadian File within the ladies’s 400 free (3:52.80), 800 free (8:07.12) and 400 IM (4:21.49).
The 2024 Brief Course World Championships will run from December 10-15 in Budapest, Hungary.
