Mcintosh, Masse win gold at worlds
Kylie Masse and Summer Mcintosh won gold, while Joshua Liendo and the women's 4x200-metre freestyle relay team claimed bronze medals on a record-breaking day for Canada at the world aquatics championships on Wednesday.
Masse, a native of Lasalle, Ont., finished first in the women's 50-metre backstroke in 27.31 seconds. It was her seventh career long-course world championship medal, tied with Penny Oleksiak for the most by a Canadian.
Mcintosh, a 15-year-old from Toronto, took gold in the women's 200 butterfly in 2:05.20 to trim over half a second from the world junior record she set in the semifinals a day earlier.
Her time set a new national record and was the fastest time in the event this year.
“It's one of my biggest dreams in the swimming world to become world champion, and especially to do it in 200 fly is something I have always wanted to do because this is one of my favourite events,” Mcintosh said.
Mcintosh picked up her second medal of the day when she teamed with Oleksiak, Toronto's Kayla Sanchez and Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., to finish third in the 200 freestyle relay in 7:44.76.
The United States finished first with a course-record time of 7:41.45, followed by Australia (7:43.86).
Liendo, from Markham, Ont., finished third in the men's 100 freestyle in 47.71 seconds.
Mcintosh now has three medals at the competition, while Masse has two.
Masse won silver in the 100 backstroke on Monday.
Mcintosh, who took silver in the 400 freestyle on Saturday, was followed by American Hali Flickinger (2:06.08) and Yufei Zhang of China (2:06.32).
Also Wednesday, Oleksiak and Sanchez advanced to Thursday's final in the women's 100 freestyle.
Oleksiak finished second (53.18) in the first semifinal heat, while Sanchez was third (53.61) in the other heat.
Competition continues through July 3.