2025 CANADIAN SWIMMING TRIALS
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Women’s 400 IM – Finals
World Record: 4:24.38 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2024)Canadian Record: 4:24.38 – Summer McIntosh, (2024)- World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 4:43.06
- Canadian Secondary World Champs Standard: 4:45.89
- Canadian World Juniors Standard: 4:54.02
Summer McIntosh annihilated yet another world record during day five of the Canadian Swimming Trials. She threw down a time of 4:23.65 in the 400 IM, shattering her own world and Canadian records in spectacular fashion.
McIntosh’s performance tonight knocked .73 off of the previous standard (4:24.38), which she set one year ago at the 2024 Canadian Swimming Trials leading up to the Olympics. This marks her third consecutive year setting a new world record in the 400 IM at Trials.
Her swim tonight saw McIntosh improve the backstroke leg of her race by a significant margin, shaving about a second off of her 100 back split compared to her record-setting swim a year ago and putting her comfortably ahead of the world record pace at the halfway point.
That’s reflective of what we saw in the 200 IM, where her 30.80 split was a full second improvement over her previous best time. While McIntosh doesn’t clearly have a ‘weak’ stroke, she has clearly put in a lot of work on her backstroke (and is being more aggressive on her front-half, even if at the expense of her breaststroke splits).
Split Comparison:
| McIntosh – New World Record | McIntosh – 2024 World Record | |
| Fly | 59.18 | 59.18 |
| Back | 1:06.13 | 1:07.12 |
| Breast | 1:18.02 | 1:17.13 |
| Free | 1:00.32 | 1:00.95 |
| Total Time | 4:23.65 | 4:24.38 |
That
McIntosh has had a lock on the 400 IM for the past couple seasons, winning gold in the event at both the 2024 Olympic Games and the 2023 World Championships. She blew the competition out of the water on her way to breaking the world record tonight, blasting into the wall almost 12 seconds ahead of runner-up Mary-Sophie Harvey (4:35.56).
McIntosh has been on fire throughout the competition, with tonight’s record-breaking swim marking her third world record of the meet, following her performances in the 200 IM (2:05.70) and 400 free (3:54.18). She also set new Canadian records in the 200 fly (2:02.26) and the 800 free (8:05.07).
Best individual performance meet since Lochte 2011 Shanghai
She will lad off the 800 free relay at Worlds and break that record too. The question is can she break 1:50?
Lol what…
Another tremendous swim by Summer! The 4IM most likely would have been the one event that had the best odds of breaking a wr before the meet.
If I had to rank her five swims in order of what I thought were the most outstanding I would go with:
1) 400 Free 3:54.18 WR
2) 200 Fly 2:02.26 # 2 All-time
3) 800 Free 8:05.07 # 3 All-time
4) 200 IM 2:05.70 WR
5) 400 IM 4:23.65 WR
This list is obviously subjective but I would be interested in how other commenters would put their lineup.
u cant let the fact that summer was already the best in the 4IM distract you from the fact that she’s built a 3 second gap over the next fastest who is none other than Katinka hosszu, whose record was already so dominant
but I guess thats my opinion.
4 free
4 im
2fly
2im
8 free
obviously ranking any of these swims as “last” doesnt mean much given how impressive they all are
I absolutely understand the reasoning on your list. To be fair you could put the five swims on a list and throw them in a hat and pull them out one at a time and still come up with an order that would be perfectly fine.
All of Summer’s swims were tremendous and the storyline behind each one was quite intriguing.
The baby GOAT. Once she has a few more Olympics under her belt like Ledecky, she may become the actual GOAT.
We just witnessed the best individual meet performance since Phelps 2008 (Bejing) or Phelps 2007 (Melbourne)!
Have been a bit behind – is she still swimming the 200FR today?
No, in an interview yesterday she said she’s done with the meet and doing a double today to get back into training
Question: If Los Angeles is unable to host the Olympics in 2028, given the civil unrest, homeless situation and financial issues, where do you think the Olympics will be held alternatively? Still in the US? Somewhere else? What are the chances of the Olympics being cancelled or postponed?
Will there be a UNITED states of America in 2028?
Good question. I ask that of all the western countries and commonwealth nations as well.
in the Republic of California
The one from fallout?
I think the bigger issue is that ICE has been grabbing and detaining tourists off the streets…who’s going to come to the World Cup next year or the Olympics if that continues?
Well people go to China for events and I’d say that is even more of a risk..so there’s that.
It takes a long time to plan and build up infrastructure for an Olympics. It is already too late to switch cities. I think from the point of view of California and LA, there aren’t any problems that can’t be overcome. Most Olympic cities have operational concerns during the buildup to the games, but they always go fine.
Is she swimming the 200m free or not?