2022 FINA WORLD CUP – TORONTO
- Friday, October 28 – Sunday, October 30, 2022
- Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre (TPASC), Toronto, Canada
- SCM (25 meters)
- Start Times
- Prelims: 9:30 am local (ET)
- Finals: 6:00 pm local (ET)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results (Omega)
- Live Stream (FINA YouTube)
Reported by Sophie Kaufman.
WOMEN’S 400 FREE – FINALS
- World Record: 3:51.30, Li Bingjie (CHN) – 2022
World Junior Record: 3:53.97, Wang Jianjiahe (CHN) – 2018World Cup Record: 3:53.97, Wang Jianjiahe (CHN) – 2018
PODIUM:
- Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 3:52.80 WJ WC
- Katie Ledecky (USA) – 3:52.88 AR
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG) – 3:58.50
It was an electric first race of the session in the women’s 400 freestyle, as Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh went head-to-head in a rematch of this year’s LC Worlds. They had definitively separated themselves from the field by the halfway point.
Ledecky had the lead for the majority of the race, but at the sixteen-year old McIntosh took over the lead at the 275-meter mark. Ledecky took the lead back with 50 meters left in the race and was ahead at the final turn, but McIntosh surged on the final 25 to touch first by .08 seconds and give Canada a win in the very first event. She came home in 14.87 seconds compared to Ledecky’s 14.95. McIntosh’s time of 3:52.80 is a new world junior and World Cup record, breaking Wang Jianjiahe‘s record from 2018.
For her part, Ledecky set a new American record, eclipsing the 3:54.06 she set in 2019 at her lone ISL meet.
If Katie Ledecky wishes to set goals for the 2023 FINA World Aquatics Championships, top five all-time performances in the W 400 FR, W 800 FR, W 1500 FR should be taken into consideration as the objective:
W 400 FR – sub 3:57.36
W 800 FR – sub 8:08.04
W 1500 FR – sub 15:29.51
I’m a big Katie Ledecky fan, but is there a hidden Summer influence here?
In the past Katie has emphasized the importance of goal setting to her success. Summer, on the other hand, has been saying in interviews that she doesn’t set goals because she considers goal setting to be limiting. So now we have an interview in which Katie is saying that she is just trying not to put limits on herself. Perhaps I’m reading too much into that remark and it is meant to apply only to this early season event, and goal setting remains as important as ever for Katie for, say, the 2023 World Champs.
We’ve already had Penny Oleksiak saying something to the effect that… Read more »
How can you not love Katie Ledecky!!!! Absolute best!
It is still not clear the goals in short pool and how much of importance the current World Cup meets are for Katie Ledecky and how much prepared she was for them.
The situation can be very similar to the one at Olympic Games in Tokyo. At the beginning of Olympic year it was almost certain that 3:57 low will be enough for the gold medal. And then suddenly just two month prior the Games Titmus swims 3:56.
I’m sure that coming this meet in Toronto Ledecky knew that she could swim under the world record. But who new that she would be late with that just by a few days.
Queen of queens!
Ledecky’s days of overt and ridiculous dominance are over and done with. Just shows how absolutely weak those events were until she came along and I’m glad other swimmers are finally catching up.
Great response and spoken like a winner with an elite mentality.
Her dominance still remains in the 800 and 1500.
until someone truly disrupts her fastest times lists in the 800 and 1500, her dominance and herself is still not going ANYWHERE
Yes and even though Titmus and Summer beat her in 400 m free in the last few races , she still competitive and consistently fast to race with these swimmers and I think there’s a good chance that she could go unbeatable in 800 and 1500 until she retired.
Yeah that world record especially in 800 cause it would take someone special to break that wr.
Would like to be there when you inform Ledecky and the following individuals (among many others) in-person that the events Ledecky has swum at three Olympics and five World Championships have featured “absolutely weak” swimmers historically until Ledecky’s domination for more than a decade came along (and now a new generation has come along): Janet Evans, Debbie Meyer, Shirley Babashoff, Sippy Woodhead, Shane Gould, Rebecca Adlington, Lotte Friis, Laure Manaudou, Brooke Bennett, Federica Pellegrini, Sarah Sjostrom, Allison Schmitt, Missy Franklin, Katie Hoff, Kate Ziegler, Tracey Wickham, Emma McKeon, Katinka Hosszu, Jazz Carlin, Joanne Jackson, Leah Smith, Chloe Sutton, Sharon van Rouwendaal, Penny Oleksiak, Rikako Ikee, Yana Klochkova, Hanna Stockbauer, Kristin Otto, Kim Linehan, Petra Thumer, Mireia Belmonte, Lauren Boyle, and… Read more »
Absolutely weak? How long have you been following swimming? A day? This event has a long history. Times have gotten faster, but that’s true across all events. Doesn’t mean they were ever “absolutely weak”.
A healthy attitude for someone with the initials CD to take!
Ledecky has always had great attitude and mental toughness.
CD on the other hand…
This is a really crappy take. You don’t get through years of training with Gregg Troy without being mentally tough. You don’t win an event all 4 years at NCAAs without being mentally tough. You don’t win three individual Olympic gold medals without being mentally tough. You don’t win 19 World Championship gold medals in three years without being mentally tough.
What Caeleb needed after being so mentally tough for so long, is a long break to decompress, recharge, and reset. Instead, he got caught up in the post-Olympic juggernaut of demands and expectations, and it hit him at the most inopportune time. Now, he’s getting that long break, and instead of calling him weak, we should be doing… Read more »
It’s weird, it’s almost like you’re saying that what coaches have been calling “mental toughness” for decades is actually a euphemism for “mental abuse.”
(PSST it is)
Gregg Troy is the king of mental abuse
Gregg Troy sure has been catching some heat in these comments lately. Will an athlete ever speak up publicly about him causing unnecessary mental distress to swimmers?
They both have amazing talent and work ethic but are very different people who had very different coaches.