2022 CANADIAN SWIMMING TRIALS
- April 5th-April 10th, 2022
- Saanich Commonwealth Place, Victoria, BC
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WOMEN’S 400 FREE – FINALS:
- World Record – 3:56.46, Katie Ledecky, 2016
Canadian Record – 4:02.42, Summer McIntosh, 2021- FINA ‘A’ Standard – 4:10.57
Podium:
- Summer McIntosh (ESWIM) – 4:01.59
- Katrina Bellio (ESWIM) – 4:11.06
- Ella Jansen (ESWIM) – 4:11.15
15-year-old Canadian star Summer McIntosh proved tonight that she’s ready to pop off a world class swim at any time. After swimming a pedestrian 4:08.01 in prelims of the women’s 400 free this morning, McIntosh swam an aggressive race tonight, roaring to a new personal best and Canadian Record of 4:01.59.
For a moment there it looked like McIntosh might challenge Katie Ledecky‘s World Junior Record of 3:58.37, but she wasn’t quite able to keep up with that pace. Fortunately for McIntosh, she still has a long time left as a junior, in which she can work down towards that mark. If we’re comparing McIntosh to Ledecky, however, she’s well under Ledecky’s top time from when she 15, which comes in at 4:04.43.
The 15-year-old wasted no time getting after it, splitting 27.75 on the first 50, her fastest opening 50 split of her career. She kept the speed going, flipping at the 200 mark in a head-turning 1:58.28. She split 30.16 and 30.38 on the 3rd and 4th 50s, and it was at that point in the race where it looked like Ledecky’s record might just be in play. She continued to slow down through the back half, however, splitting 1:01.43 and 1:01.88 on the 3rd and 4th 100s.
The swim shattered the Canadian Record of 4:02.42, which McIntosh set at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last summer, where she finished 4th in finals. On top of the Canadian Record, McIntosh is now the #11 performer all-time in the event. Here is the split comparison between McIntosh’s swim tonight and her previous Canadian Record swim from the Olympic finals last summer:
| Split | Summer McIntosh – 2022 Canadian Trials | Summer McIntosh – Tokyo 2020 Olympic Final (Previous Canadian Record) |
| 50m | 27.75 | 27.87 |
| 100m | 29.99 | 30.42 |
| 150m | 30.16 | 30.49 |
| 200m | 30.38 | 30.54 |
| 250m | 30.60 | 30.41 |
| 300m | 30.83 | 30.78 |
| 350m | 31.17 | 31.04 |
| 400m | 30.71 | 30.87 |
| FINAL TIME | 4:01.59 | 4:02.42 |
As the splits show, McIntosh was faster on each of the first four 50 splits of the race. She was also just a hair faster on the final 100.
Outside of the record, McIntosh rose to 3rd in the world this year in the event, behind only Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky, who also happen to be the two fastest performers all-time in the event.
Does anyone know who coaches her now?
Thought she’d break 4 ngl, but the way she is going, a sub 4 is not hard for her
“Not hard?” Give the girl a break.
Hard to say comparing these very similar looking splits of two races that stay 8 months apart were the unused reserve is. It is unlikely that her first 200 can be much faster. It’s already not far from her personal best. We have to see how her 200 looks like now and if there was any her improvement as a sprinter. Maybe the last 100 will be stronger with the taper assuming that she didn’t pay much attention to this meet.. But it should be very impressive taper effect of the size of 2 sec.
I disagree. I think if there is a huge opportunity to be faster the first 200m. Typically with distance swimmers you see their front end improving as they gain more muscle.
I also think Summer’s 200 free pb will improve this meet, but not by a ton. However, at Worlds with a full, end of season taper, we will see a 1:54-1:55 200 free and a 3:59 low 400 free.
Wow. I reckon sub-4:00 is not out of the question for Worlds. Exciting times! Crazy to think she’s nearly 3 seconds faster than Ledecky was at this age (and also has things like a 4:29 400IM under her belt).
is she doing the 4 IM here?
She’s entered in 200/400/800FR, 200 FL and 400 IM.
She could actually take a shot at the world record in the 4 IM not saying it’s going down but definitely could and also throw down a monster 2 fly as well.
Katie Ledecky being 4 months younger than Summer McIntosh is now swam at 4:04.34 her first half of 800 race. That is the time you are using. We can only guess what her time would be should she had 400 event in her program but the difference between her 400 individual races and first half of 800 race at the same meet is averaging 5-6 seconds.
I’m pretty sure that Katie Ledecky at the age of 15 years and 4 months was already at the 4min level if not bellow. Next year at Barcelona she improved her personal best at 800 by less than a second and was under 4min at 400. So I think that my estimate of… Read more »
It’s always hardest to be first. Ledecky has shown these girls what was possible, and now they will try take it to another level.
It looks like Katie did that 400 time listed as the opening 400 split of her 800 at the Olympics. So, if she’d made the team in the 400, I imagine she would have been faster.
She’s amazing. The Janet Evans of the 2020s
The Janet Evans of the 2020s is the same “Janet Evans” of the 2010s. Ledecky is still around and dominating everybody else not named Titmus lol