Canadian swimmer sets two world records in three days
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Canadian teen Summer McIntosh set her second world record in three days at the Canadian swimming trials. McIntosh swam the 200-metre individual medley in 2 minutes 5.7 seconds, breaking the previous record of 2:06.12 set by Hungary great Katinka Hosszu in 2015.

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โ€œIโ€™ve been knocking on the door on this one. Iโ€™ve just tried to chip away, chip away at it. To finally do it, it’s kind of like, wow, Iโ€™ve finally got that done,โ€ McIntosh said. The 18-year-old Toronto native had already broken the world best mark in the 400m freestyle on Saturday, completing the race in 3:54.18, shaving more than a second off the old record of 3:55.38 set by Ariarne Titmus of Australia.

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McIntosh broke her own Canadian record in the 800 freestyle on Sunday, when her time of 8:05.07 was just 0.95 of a second off the world record set by Katie Ledecky in May. โ€œIโ€™m really trying to take it one race at a time,โ€ McIntosh said. โ€œReally kind of cruising the heats and then coming to every final super locked in and focused.โ€ McIntosh won three gold medals at the Paris Olympics last year, winning her three individual events of the 400m and 200m individual medleys and the 200m butterfly.



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