World Championships, Day 1 Women’s Prelims: Summer McIntosh Opens With Double
The 2025 World Championships could be a historic week for Summer McIntosh. It starts off for the Canadian teen from Day 1 in Singapore.
McIntosh will be in the water twice in the first session at the World Aquatics Championships Arena with four swims on the first day of the meet.
McIntosh’s heat in the 200 individual medley, the fourth of four, goes off at 10:15 a.m. local time. She’ll be in the water for the fourth and final heat of the 400 free at 11:59 a.m. The night session is tighter, with the 400 free final at 7:33 p.m. in Singapore with the 200 IM semifinals at 8 p.m. on the dot.
McIntosh has a massive program ahead, chasing five individual gold medals. She enters with newly minted world records in both IMs and the 400 free, plus a chance to duel with Katie Ledecky in the 800 free and take aim at a hallowed, super-suited 200 fly world record. It could be a meet that vaults the Canadian into the stratosphere of swimming history. It all starts pretty much as soon as the meet does.
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200 individual medley
Summer McIntosh delivered an uneventful opening swim, which is just fine by her given what’s ahead. She went 2:09.45, luxuriously into the semifinals with the second fastest time. First went to Australian Tara Kinder, who beat her head-to-head in the final heat by .01 seconds.
Alex Walsh qualified third in 2:09.50. Mary-Sophie Harvey was fourth in 2:09.95. The other American, Phoebe Bacon, finished 12th to make the semifinals.
Yu Yiting, who selected the 200 IM-100 butterfly double, was fifth in 2:10.33. Also into the semifinals is China’s 12-year-old Yu Zidi.
There’s a tie for 16th place requiring a swimoff between Emma Carasco of Spain and Tamara Potocka of Slovakia, both of whom went 2:12.29.
100 butterfly
400 freestyle
400 free relay
