Summer time McIntosh has received Canada’s first medal of the Olympic Video games in Paris with a silver in swimming’s 400-metre freestyle.
Australia’s Ariarne Titmus defended her Olympic crown in a time of three minutes 3:57.49 seconds forward of McIntosh in 3:58.37 and bronze medallist Katie Ledecky of america in 4:00.86.
Titmus defended her crown Saturday by pushing the tempo off the blocks and taking an early lead that the 23-year-old by no means relinquished.
McIntosh within the subsequent lane ran second your entire distance. Ledecky, 27, light on the finish to complete over a physique size behind McIntosh for bronze and the eleventh medal of the American’s profession.
Ledecky, McIntosh and Titmus took turns holding the world document not too long ago with Titmus carrying the usual of three minutes 55.38 from the 2023 world championship into Saturday’s remaining.
Toronto teen Summer time McIntosh received her first-career Olympic medal, swimming to silver within the girls’s 400m freestyle remaining. Australia’s Ariarne Titmus received gold, whereas American Katie Ledecky claimed bronze.
McIntosh almost received the primary Olympic medal of her profession within the 400 free as a 14-year-old three years in the past in Tokyo, however positioned fourth.
The Toronto swimmer is the world-record holder within the girls’s 400 particular person medley. McIntosh swims that occasion Monday.
“Going into tonight I actually simply needed to place my greatest foot ahead and race as laborious as I may. General I am fairly pleased with the consequence,” mentioned McIntosh. “An Olympics is at all times fairly nerve-racking, and there is lots of anticipation going into every race, so [I’m] sort of studying tips on how to take care of that and in addition attempting to feed off the gang.”
The race had been in comparison with the epic males’s 200 freestyle “Race of the Century” showdown between American Michael Phelps, Australian Ian Thorpe and Dutch large Pieter van den Hoogenband in 2004.
Titmus, referred to as “The Terminator”, led from begin to end.
“I am simply joyful to get the consequence for myself and I really feel so honoured to be part of the race and be alongside legends like Katie,” Titmus mentioned.
“I look as much as her a lot as an athlete, and there is definitely not a rivalry past the races. I actually respect her as an individual and I hope that I placed on a very good present tonight and everybody loved it.”
All three medallists have been previous or current world document holders.
“We knew it was going to be an important race getting into, so many nice opponents within the area,” Ledecky mentioned.
“I knew it would be robust and everybody in that area put up an important race. Ariarne [Titmus] and Summer time [McIntosh] swam actually, very well. I have never checked out how the entire race broke down, I can solely see it from my lane, however kudos on some nice races.”
Watch Toronto’s Summer time McIntosh obtain the silver medal through the victory ceremony for the ladies’s 400-metre freestyle remaining at Paris 2024.
Titmus swept the 200m and 400m freestyle in Tokyo, and he or she goes for a similar double in Paris. Ledecky goes for a double within the 800m and 1,500m.
Additionally, defending girls’s 100m butterfly champion Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont., certified for the ultimate of that occasion.
She tied for the fourth-fastest time within the semifinals.
The occasion is ready for Sunday at 2:40 p.m. ET. Together with TV broadcasts on CBC and its associate networks Sportsnet and TSN, you can stream all the motion from Paris 2024 reside and on demand at CBC Gem and on the CBC Sports activities Paris 2024 App.
CBC Sports activities’ Devin Heroux interviewed Summer time McIntosh poolside, after she received the silver medal within the girls’s 400-metre freestyle remaining at Paris 2024.
Canadian girls’s relay group finishes 4th
The Canadian girls’s 4×100 relay squad of Summer time McIntosh, Taylor Ruck, Maggie Mac Neil and Penny Oleksiak completed fourth within the occasion’s remaining, coming in 2.69 seconds after third-placed China.
Australia’s group of Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris took gold with an Olympic document time of three minutes 28.92 seconds, securing their nation’s fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal within the occasion.
The U.S. got here in second, simply 1.28 seconds behind the Australian group, which was adequate for an Americas document.
Within the males’s 4x100m relay, Canada’s group of Finlay Knox, Yuri Kisil, Javier Acevedo and Josh Liendo completed in sixth place.
Caeleb Dressel collected his eighth profession Olympic gold medal, and a primary of the Paris Video games for the U.S. group, when he anchored them to a second successive 4x100m freestyle title.
Australia took silver and Italy the bronze, with China lacking out on the medals in fourth place.
Jack Alexy, Chris Giuliano, Hunter Armstrong and Dressel mixed in a time of three minutes 09.28 seconds to beat Australia by 1.07 within the final remaining of a raucous opening evening on the La Protection Area.
The Olympic flame lit by former French sprinter Marie-José Pérec and French judoka Teddy Riner on the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris
