Summer McIntosh now has a hat-trick of records after her first three events at the national swimming trials at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.
On Friday night, McIntosh set a world junior and Canadian record in the 200-metre butterfly.
Her time of 2:04.70 took down her previous record time (2:05.05) set earlier this month. McIntosh’s smooth, powerful strokes helped her surge to the wall in a blistering time, once again electrifying the crowd.
The generational talent is having a remarkable meet.
It started on opening night when the 16-year-old swimming sensation broke the world record in the 400m freestyle.
WATCH | Relive Summer McIntosh breaking world record in 400m freestyle:
Feel as though you are right next to Summer McIntosh as she breaks her first world record at 16 years old, at the Canadian national swimming trials.
With her parents, Jill and Greg McIntosh, in the crowd on Tuesday night, Summer stopped the clock in a time of 3:56.08, breaking the world record held by Ariarne Titmus of Australia.
“I don’t think pressure really exits in my mind,” McIntosh said Friday. “The only true pressure is the pressure I put on myself to perform.”
On Thursday night, McIntosh broke her own world junior record in the 200m individual medley. Her time of 2:06.89 yesterday would have won gold at worlds last summer.
And her time also would have won gold at the Tokyo Olympics by more than a second.
Kharun just shy of national 200m butterfly record
Riding the momentum of McIntosh’s fast swimming, another rising star in Ilya Kharun narrowly fell short of a Canadian record in the same event.
Kharun, 18, lowered his own national record time in the 200m fly, stopping the clock at 1:54.57.
He previously set a national record time of 1:54.49 in the event at the beginning of March.
WATCH | Montreal’s Ilya Kharun a name to watch at Canadian swimming trials:
Montreal’s Ilya Kharun has been making waves wherever he goes since joining the Canadian team at the end of last year.
The teen is widely regarded as one of this country’s great male talents in the pool. He’s spent most of his life living in Las Vegas after being born in Montreal.
In his final year of high school, Kharun has committed to Arizona State, where he’s joining a group of talented swimmers preparing for the Paris Olympics.