Canadian swimming sensation Summer McIntosh powered to her third gold of the Singapore world championships with victory in the 200m butterfly on Thursday, falling agonisingly short of a new world record.<\/p>\n
McIntosh touched the wall in 2min 01.99sec, just failing to beat the world mark of 2:01.81 set by China’s Liu Zige in 2009.<\/p>\n
It was the second-fastest time in history.<\/p>\n
American Regan Smith was second in 2:04.99, with Australia’s Elizabeth Dekkers third in 2:06.12.<\/p>\n
Chinese 12-year-old Yu Zidi was narrowly fourth in 2:06.43.<\/p>\n
The dominant win kept McIntosh on course to join retired great Michael Phelps as the only swimmers to win five individual titles at a single world championships.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old McIntosh, the 200m butterfly Olympic champion, has already won the 400m freestyle and 200m individual medley in Singapore.<\/p>\n
“My coach and I, our big goal was to break that world record and that was what we were training for,” said McIntosh.<\/p>\n
“To see that I missed it by that little — overall really happy with the time and PB (personal best) but I did not reach my goal tonight.”<\/p>\n
McIntosh will continue her assault on the world championships in the 800m freestyle, where she will square off against American legend Katie Ledecky.<\/p>\n
Ledecky is a four-time Olympic gold medallist and the world record holder in the 800m freestyle but McIntosh clocked the third-fastest time ever last month.<\/p>\n
The Canadian said her 200m butterfly performance “gives me a lot of confidence”.<\/p>\n
“Happy with the gold, happy with the win and just going to keep pushing for it,” she said.<\/p>\n
China’s Yu has turned heads in Singapore with her prodigious talent.<\/p>\n
She also qualified for the final of the 200m individual medley and again came fourth, missing out on a medal by just 0.06sec in what was not considered her strongest event.<\/p>\n
If she had claimed bronze, she would have become the youngest medallist in the history of the world championships, which began in 1973.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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