She's Canada's Golden Girl!Summer McIntosh won the gold medal in the women's 200-m butterfly swim final on Thursday, after already scoping up a gold and bronze medal in earlier swims. The 17-year-old Torontonian completed the race in 2:03.03 seconds, followed by American Reagan Smith and China’s Zhang Yufei. McIntosh set a new Olympic record, having beaten Zhang’s 2:3.86 time in the 2021 Games inTokyo, and joined the few other Canadians to have ever won two Olympic medals, including George Hodgson in 1912 and Alex Baumann in 1984.The 200-m butterfly swim is the same race her mother, Jill Horstead, competed in at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, where she completed the race in 2:13.49, finishing ninth. McIntosh won the gold medal in the women's 400m individual medley and the silver in the 400m freestyle event. Canada now has three gold medals, two silver and three bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. .Later in the day on Thursday, McIntosh, 17, of Toronto, along with Emma O'Croinin, 21, of Edmonton, AB, Ella Jansen, 18, of Hamilton ON, Julie Brousseau, 18, of Ottawa and Mary-Sophie Harvey, 24, of Trois-Rivières, QC, placed fourth in the women's 4x200-m relay swim. Australia won, followed by the United States and China in second and third.
She's Canada's Golden Girl!Summer McIntosh won the gold medal in the women's 200-m butterfly swim final on Thursday, after already scoping up a gold and bronze medal in earlier swims. The 17-year-old Torontonian completed the race in 2:03.03 seconds, followed by American Reagan Smith and China’s Zhang Yufei. McIntosh set a new Olympic record, having beaten Zhang’s 2:3.86 time in the 2021 Games inTokyo, and joined the few other Canadians to have ever won two Olympic medals, including George Hodgson in 1912 and Alex Baumann in 1984.The 200-m butterfly swim is the same race her mother, Jill Horstead, competed in at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, where she completed the race in 2:13.49, finishing ninth. McIntosh won the gold medal in the women's 400m individual medley and the silver in the 400m freestyle event. Canada now has three gold medals, two silver and three bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. .Later in the day on Thursday, McIntosh, 17, of Toronto, along with Emma O'Croinin, 21, of Edmonton, AB, Ella Jansen, 18, of Hamilton ON, Julie Brousseau, 18, of Ottawa and Mary-Sophie Harvey, 24, of Trois-Rivières, QC, placed fourth in the women's 4x200-m relay swim. Australia won, followed by the United States and China in second and third.
