Summer McIntosh received her fourth gold medal of the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore with a dominant efficiency in the 400-meter particular person medley.
The Canadian teenager finished in 4:25.78 to set a brand new championship document and cap off a near-perfect meet with 5 medals throughout her occasions.
American famous person Katie Ledecky is the solely different girl to win as many golds at a single World Championships, whereas solely Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström has matched McIntosh’s tally of 5 medals.
With her bronze medal in the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday, McIntosh fell simply brief of matching Michael Phelps’ document of 5 gold medals at a single World Championships.
“Overall, I’m happy with this World Championships,” McIntosh told CBC News. “I’ve to be, 4 golds is one thing that I’ve by no means achieved at the world stage earlier than.
“I broke my kind of curse of three – everything comes in threes but now everything comes in fours, and hopefully, I can push for everything to come in fives.”
In Sunday’s 400-meter particular person medley, the 18-year-old completed greater than seven seconds clear of Australia’s Jenna Forrester and Japan’s Mio Narita, who tied for silver with a time of 4:33.26.
China’s 12-year-old Yu Zidi, who beforehand turned the youngest medalist at the World Championships, was half a second outdoors the medals in fourth.
McIntosh now has 13 medals from the World Championships, together with eight golds. In Singapore, she additionally took victories in the 400m freestyle, the 200m butterfly, and the 200m medley.
In the males’s 400m medley, France’s Léon Marchand received his second gold medal of the championships by finishing a medley double.
His winning time of 4:04.73 noticed him end forward of Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita and Russian Ilia Borodin in second and third respectively, claiming his seventh profession gold at the World Championships.