Summer McIntosh held off of 400m freestyle podium, Titmus sets new world record
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Summer McIntosh finished just off the podium in her first final at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
The 16-year-old Canadian swimmer was fourth in the final of the women's 400-metre freestyle on Sunday which was won by newly-minted world record holder Ariarne Titmus of Australia.
Titmus touched the wall in three minutes 55.38 seconds, eclipsing the mark of 3:56.08 set by McIntosh at Canadian trials in March.
American Katie Ledecky took silver in a time of 3:58.73, and New Zealand's Erika Fairweather finished with bronze in 3:59.59.
McIntosh, of Toronto, swam to a time of 3:59.94, nearly three seconds off her former world-record time.
In other action on Sunday, Maggie Mac Neil, of London, Ont., qualified for the women's 100m butterfly final by finishing second in her semifinal heat with a time of 56.78.
The reigning Olympic champion in the event sat out her individual events at last year's worlds to give herself some space for her mental health.
In the men's 50m butterfly, Josh Liendo of Markham, Ont., and Montreal's Ilya Kharun advanced to the semifinals but did not make the cut for the final.
In the 4x100m freestyle relays, Australia's teams swept to gold while the Canadians did not land on the podium.
The Canadian men's team of Liendo, Montreal's Edouard Fullum-Huot, and Toronto's Javier Acevedo and Ruslan Gaziev finished fifth (3:12.05) while Australia won in 3:10.16.
The Australian women's team took gold in a world-record time of 3:27.96. Canada's Mac Neil, Katerine Savard, of Pont-Rouge, Que., Mary-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Rivières, Que., and Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., finished seventh in 3:36.62.
French 22-year-old Leon Marchand has broken Michael Phelps's world record in the men's 400 individual medley in four minutes 2.50 seconds. Phelps set the old record of 4:03.84 at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
It was the last individual record Phelps held since retiring for good after the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Marchand swims at Arizona State and is coached by Bob Bowman, the coach of the American team at the world championships. He is a potential hometown superstar going into next year's Paris Olympics. He will also be the favourite in the 200 IM.
Canada's Kevin Drury battled his way to a gold medal that left him in tears at a World Cup ski cross event on Friday in Val Thorens, France.
Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a "monumental betrayal" after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is “disappointed” that the main arena slated to host ice hockey at February’s Olympics isn’t yet completed with less than two months to go before the Games are scheduled to be played.
A two-year suspension from competitive swimming has forced Penny Oleksiak to answer questions about drug use, train by herself in public pools and defend her legacy as Canada’s most decorated female Olympian.
Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice shorter than NHL-regulation size.
Summer McIntosh capped swimming’s U.S. Open with the event record in the women’s 200-metre butterfly on Saturday in Austin, Texas.
Some bronze medals are worth their weight in gold. Valerie Grenier's third-place finish in women's giant slalom at the Mont-Tremblant World Cup certainly fits that category.
The men’s World Cup draw in Washington D.C. was going well for Canada until Pot 4.
The draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place Friday at 12 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Center in Washington, for the purpose of dividing the 48-team field into 12 groups of four. Once the tournament starts, 32 teams will advance from those preliminary groups to the single-elimination knockout rounds.
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., buzzed with activity and speculation on Thursday in advance of Friday’s all-important draw for the 2026 men’s World Cup.
By the time the management group for the Canadian men’s national hockey team emerges from marathon meetings on Tuesday, as much as 80 per cent of the roster going to Italy next February should be written in pen.
Canada’s ski mountaineering athletes have their Olympic dreams on the line this weekend at a World Cup event in Solitude, Utah.
Goalie Carter Hart, one of five 2018 Canada world junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault in July, will make his first NHL appearance in nearly two years when he starts in goal Tuesday night for the Vegas Golden Knights, who host Chicago.