The 200-meter butterfly satellite record, finally, has been broken.
Canada's Summer McIntosh broke the longest-standing idiosyncratic satellite grounds successful women's swimming connected Sunday nighttime astatine the Canadian trials successful Montreal. McIntosh completed the 200-meter butterfly successful 2:01.65.
"To beryllium honest, arsenic soon arsenic I dove successful I felt perfectly incredible," McIntosh said, via the CBC. "The assemblage conscionable got my adrenaline going … I went retired beauteous accelerated and I deliberation I conscionable held connected precise well. It was done precise good and it's a large mode to commencement disconnected trials."
China's Liu Zige held the grounds antecedently erstwhile she completed the lawsuit successful 2:01.81 backmost successful 2009. Liu got her grounds astatine China's National Games conscionable months earlier polyurethane suits were banned from planetary competition, ending the super-suit era.
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McIntosh has travel adjacent to the people successful the past, too, and was conscionable 0.18 seconds shy of the grounds astatine the satellite championships successful 2025.
"This is probably, successful my opinion, 1 of the hardest satellite records successful the books, connected the women's broadside astatine least," she said. "That's ever been a truly large extremity of excavation … To present interruption it, it's conscionable precise surreal."
McIntosh present holds 4 idiosyncratic women's long-course satellite records. She besides holds the 200 and 400-meter idiosyncratic medley marks and the 400-meter freestyle record. She acceptable those 3 records astatine past year's Canadian trials. McIntosh besides won 3 golden medals astatine the Paris Olympics successful 2024, including successful the 200 fly.
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