Canada’s Summer season McIntosh took gold within the girls’s 400m freestyle occasion on the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore as American Katie Ledecky completed with the bronze.
The occasion was seen as a battle between 18-year-old McIntosh – who has three Olympic gold medals – and 28-year-old nine-time Olympic champion Ledecky.
Nevertheless, McIntosh led from the begin to win in three minutes 56 seconds, with China’s Li Bingjie second and Ledecky 2.23secs behind the chief.
McIntosh has an opportunity to affix Michael Phelps as the one swimmer to win 5 particular person titles at a single world championships as she can also be set to race within the 400m and 200m particular person medley, 200m butterfly and 800m freestyle.
Talking to Canadian broadcaster CBC, {the teenager} mentioned: “It is wonderful, day one might be my largest day within the meet.