Canada’s Summer McIntosh won the women’s 400m medley world title with the timing of 4 minutes 32.04 seconds in the FINA 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday.

McIntosh set a new junior world record with the victory. The second and third positions were bagged by USA’s Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant respectively.

Summer McIntosh is a 15-year-old Canadian competitive swimmer and the daughter of Olympic team swimmer Jill Horstead. She was born on August 18, 2006, in Ontario. Her elder sibling, Brooke McIntosh, is a pair skater. 

McIntosh rose to prominence at the age of 14, when she was the youngest player on the Canadian team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She came fourth in the swimming event.

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McIntosh has broken more than 50 national swimming records. In 2021, she swam in the 400 m freestyle in 4:05.13, the fastest time record ever made by a 14-year-old swimmer. 

McIntosh also qualified for the 2022 Tokyo Summer Olympics after winning the 200 m freestyle race in the 2021 Canadian Olympic trials.

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After the Olympics, she made her International Swimming League as a Toronto Titans member. She won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the championship.

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Earlier this week, she won her first gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly race at the World Aquatics Championships. 

“I think I’m a little bit in shock right now,” she said after the race, according to CBC.  

“I didn’t expect to go 2:05. But as soon as I stepped out with all the energy and excitement from the crowd, I just fed off that. I got a lot of adrenaline and motivation and put it down,” McIntosh added.