NANTERRE-. The Canadian phenomenon Summer McIntosh won the first Olympic gold medal of her nascent career on Monday with a landslide victory in the 400-meter individual medley at the Paris Games.
McIntosh, 17, had already claimed her first Olympic medal on swimming’s opening night, taking silver in the 400 freestyle — behind Australia’s Ariarne Titmus and ahead of American Katie Ledecky.
Now, McIntosh will boast a medal in the best color of all.
She set the pace for the first half of the grueling event — the butterfly and backstroke — to leave all but American Katie Grimes behind.
McIntosh came within a hair of breaking her own world record but couldn’t hold on to it. She clocked 4 minutes, 27.71 seconds, more than three seconds shy of the 4:24.38 she set at the Olympic qualifying meet in Canada in May.
But she was fast enough to become an Olympic champion.
Grimes, who also competed in the open water event in Paris, took silver in 4:33.40. The Americans also took bronze when Emma Weyant finished third in 4:34.93.
Source: AP
