Summer McIntosh

As part of the 2021 Canadian Olympic swimming trials in Toronto, McIntosh won the 200 m freestyle event over training partner Penny Oleksiak, with a personal best time of 1:56.19, which also marked the fastest time ever by a 14 year old swimmer worldwide.[6] This qualified her for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. McIntosh followed this up with a win in the 800 m freestyle event, in another personal best time of 8:29.49. She was the youngest person named to the Canadian Olympic team.[7][8][9][10]

In her first event, McIntosh finished fourth in the women's 400m freestyle, breaking the Canadian national record with a time of 4:02.42.[11] She advanced to the semifinals of the women's 200m freestyle, but placed ninth there and thus missed the final. She was part of the Canadian team for the 4 x 200 m relay, along with Penny Oleksiak, Rebecca Smith and Kayla Sanchez. They set a new Canadian record in the event final, placing fourth.[12] McIntosh's last event was the women's 800m freestyle, where she placed eleventh and thus did not advance to the final.[13]

Following the Olympics, McIntosh made her debut on the International Swimming League as part of the Toronto Titans.[14]

McIntosh was part of the Canadian team for the 2021 World Swimming Championships, and won a silver medal as part of the 4×100 m medley relay, where she swam in the preliminaries for Canada as the team finished in second in the final. She then helped the Canadian team in the 4×200 m women's freestyle relay, swimming the first leg as Canada won gold. McIntosh won her first individual medal of the competition when she won the silver in the 400 m freestyle race. She was third at the halfway mark but passed Siobhan Haughey and held on to the second position, finishing behind Li Bingjie.[15] McIntosh had set a Canadian record in the 800 m qualifying, but she withdrew from the event to focus on the 400 and women's relay events.[16]

On March 4, 2022, McIntosh swam the 400 m individual medley at a preparatory event for the Canadian swimming trials, recording a time of 4:29.12. This was both a national and Commonwealth record, and the third-fastest of all-time, as well as the fastest time recorded by any swimmer since Katinka Hosszú's winning time at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[17] At the national swimming trials, McIntosh won titles in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, the 200 m butterly, and the 400 m individual medley, before scratching from the 800 m freestyle.[18]