2025 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – Toronto
- October 23-25, 2025
- Toronto, Canada
- SCM (25 meters)
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Women’s 400m IM — Final Heat
- World Record: 4:15.48 — Summer McIntosh, Canada (2024)
- World Junior Record: 4:15.48 — Summer McIntosh, Canada (2024)
- World Cup Record: 4:18.94 — Mireia Belmonte Garcia, Spain (2017)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Ellen Walshe (IRL) – 4:22.97
- Mary-Sophie Harvey (CAN) – 4:24.25
- Mio Narita (JPN) – 4:26.43
- Abbie Wood (GBR) – 4:28.87
- Ella Ramsay (AUS) – 4:28.96
- Isabelle Odgers (CLB) – 4:34.90
- Gina McCarthy (NZL) – 4:38.13
- Kristen Elena Romano (PUR) – 4:44.17
Fresh off setting her third Irish Record in three finals in the 200 fly last night, Ellen Walshe notched her second record in the 400 IM on this week’s World Cup tour, and fifth in total with a gold medal-winning swim of 4:22.97.
Walshe, who finished 2nd in the event in Carmel before smashing her four-year-old Irish record in Westmont last week, was more than two seconds faster to take the win today.
She was 2nd at the 100 meter mark, as Ella Ramsay led the field after the fly for the third week in a row, and was nearly even with the Australian swimmer at the halfway point, flipping in 2:09.56 to the Aussie’s 2:09.41.
As she did last week, she pulled away on the breaststroke leg with a split of 1:14.20 although she still only led by just over a second as they went into the final 100. However, this was where Walshe truly showed her hand as she roared home in 59.21, just 0.07 seconds slower than Summer McIntosh closed in her World Record swim.
Her back half of 2:13.41 was actually a full second faster than the Canadian swimmer was in Budapest last December, and allowed Walshe to hold off another Canadian in Mary-Sophie Harvey tonight.
Walshe hacked 2.36 seconds off her previous Irish mark of 4:25.33, and now ranks as the #8 swimmer in history.
Top 10 Women’s SCM 400 IM Performers All-Time
- Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 4:15.48, 2024
- Mireia Belmonte (ESP) – 4:18.94, 2017
- Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 4:19.46, 2015
- Katie Grimes (USA) – 4:20.14
- Julia Smit (USA) – 4:21.04, 2009
- Yu Ohashi (JPN) – 4:22.73, 2018
- Kathryn Meaklim (RSA) – 4:22.88, 2009
- Ellen Walshe (IRL) – 4:22.97, 2025
- Hannah Miley (GBR) – 4:23.14, 2012
- Ye Shiwen (CHN) – 4:23.63, 2012
Throughout her three swims on the World Cup tour, Walshe has improved on every leg compared to the previous stop.
She was out a second and a half faster on the first 200 compared to her swim in Carmel, but her stunning back half tonight, quite possibly the fastest in history, propelled her into new territory.
| 2025 – World Cup, Carmel Stop | 2025 – World Cup, Westmont Stop | 2025 – World Cup, Toronto Stop | |
| 100 | 1:02.12 | 1:01.71 | 1:01.18 |
| 200 | 2:11.03 (1:08.91) | 2:10.24 (1:08.43) | 2:09.56 (1:08.38) |
| 300 | 3:27.15 (1:16.12) | 3:25.07 (1:14.83) | 3:23.76 (1:14.20) |
| 400 | 4:28.47 (1:01.32) | 4:25.33 (1:00.26) | 4:22.97 (59.21) |
Walshe will swim the 100 fly tomorrow, where she is the Irish record holder courtesy of a 55.50 from the Short Course World Championships last December. She swam that time in the semi-finals, before taking 6th in the final in a time of 55.68.
There was an additional Irish Record in the morning heats, making it four Records for the island nation already so far in Toronto. Lottie Cullen, who swims in the NCAA for Houston and was an NCAA qualifier last season, set a new best of 57.31 in the 100 backstroke to set her first national record and just miss the final. The previous mark of 57.56 belonged to Danielle Hill, the long course record holder in the event.
Walshe set the aforementioned 200 fly record last night, while Mona McSharry set a new standard in the women’s 200 breaststroke, also her third of the World Cup and she has now lowered her best time by two seconds over the last two weeks.
McSharry will swim the 100 breaststroke later in the session tonight, and was just 0.04 seconds away from her record in the heats this morning, swimming 1:03.96 to take the second seed for the final.
