Overview

• McIntosh lowered her own 400m individual medley world record to 4:23.65, trimming 0.73 seconds off last year’s mark.
• She opened the week in Victoria with new world records of 2:05.70 in the 200m individual medley and 3:54.18 in the 400m freestyle.
• The 18-year-old narrowly missed a fourth record in the 200m butterfly, touching in 2:02.04 against Liu Shou’s 2009 benchmark of 2:01.81.
• A three-time Olympic gold medalist from Paris, she is regarded as a strong favorite to claim multiple titles at the upcoming Singapore World Championships.
• To chase five gold medals at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, McIntosh has relocated to Texas to train under Michael Phelps’s former coach Bob Bowman.