2024 Brief Course World Championships
The Summer season McIntosh present continued on day three of the 2024 Brief Course World Championships with the 18-year-old Canadian firing off a brand new World Junior Report.
Racing within the heats of the ladies’s 200m butterfly, the Olympic multi-medalist stopped the clock at a blistering 2:01.96 to carry an almost one-second benefit forward of the sphere.
The subsequent-closest swimmer was Alex Shackell of america, who snagged the second seed in 2:02.79, whereas Finnish nationwide report holder Laura Lahtinen hit 2:03.55 for the third seed.
McIntosh’s effort crushed the earlier WJR commonplace of two:02.52 17-year-old Luying Chen established on the Chinese language Brief Course Nationals simply two months in the past.
| McIntosh’s New WJR – 2:01.96 | Luying’s Previous WJR – 2:02.52 |
| 27.13 | 27.51 |
| 31.41 | 31.27 |
| 31.53 | 31.91 |
| 31.89 | 31.83 |
Coming into this competitors, McIntosh’s SCM 200 fly rested on the 2:03.40 she produced through the 2022 World Cup circuit that means she hacked over a second and a half off that consequence to assert the brand new WJR.
Her effort now makes her the fifth-swiftest 200m butterfly performer of all time, and the ultimate remains to be to come back this night. As a refresher, that is McIntosh’s first main meet since profitable 4 medals, together with three gold, on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
High 10 Ladies’s SCM 200 Butterfly Performers All-Time
- Mireia Belmonte (ESP) – 1:59.61, 2014
- Liu Zige (CHN) – 2:00.78, 2009
- Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 2:01.12, 2014
- Kelsie Dahlia (USA) – 2:01.73, 2018
- Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 2:01.96, 2024
- Jiao Liuyang (CHN) – 2:02.28, 2012
- Chen Luying (CHN) – 2:02.52, 2024
- Ellen Gandy (AUS) – 2:02.88, 2013
- Suzuka Hasegawa (JPN) – 2:02.96, 2017
- Zhang Yufei (CHN) – 2:03.01, 2021 & Franziska Hentke (GER) – 2:03.01, 2015
McIntosh already set a brand new World Report right here in Budapest within the ladies’s 400m free to open her World Championships marketing campaign.
Ladies’s 200 Butterfly
- World Report: 1:59.61 – Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP), 2014
World Junior Report: 2:02.52 – Luying Chen (CHN), 2024- World Championship Report: 1:59.61 – Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP), 2014
- 2022 World Champion: Dakota Luther (USA) – 2:03.37
High 8 Qualifiers:
- Summer season McIntosh (CAN)- 2:01.96 **New World Junior Report**
- Alex Shackell (USA)- 2:02.79
- Laura Lahtinen (FIN)- 2:03.55
- Regan Smith (USA)- 2:04.11
- Elizabeth Dekkers (AUS)- 2:04.34
- Helena Rosendahl Again (DEN)- 2:04.71
- Luying Chen (CHN)- 2:05.23
- Bella Grant (AUS)- 2:05.53
