Updated August 1, 2024 @ 5:17pm
Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh doubled up on Olympic gold medals in Paris by winning the women's 200-metre butterfly Thursday.
The 17-year-old from Toronto also collected her third medal in an individual event after gold in the 400-metre individual medley and silver in the 400-metre freestyle.
McIntosh joined George Hodgson in 1912 and Alex Baumann in 1984 among Canadian swimmers who achieved double gold at an Olympic Games.
Her time of two minutes 3.03 seconds in the 200 butterfly, which is the event her mother Jill Horstead raced in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was an Olympic record.
Regan Smith of the United States took silver in 2:03.84 and China's Zhang Yufei was the bronze medallist in 2:05.09.
McIntosh missed out on a second podium opportunity later Thursday when she anchored the women's 4x200 freestyle relay to a fourth-place finish.
The Canadian may not be done adding to her medal tally in Paris.
She competes in the 200-metre individual medley preliminary rounds on Friday. The final is Saturday. McIntosh is also a candidate to race in the women's medley relay Sunday.
Zhang was strong off the blocks to take an early lead in the 200 fly, which the Chinese relinquished to McIntosh before the 150 mark and began to fade.
Smith tried to close on the final 50, but the Canadian held her ground out front and touched the wall eight-tenths of a second ahead of the American.
Canadian Olympic Committee president and former rower Tricia Smith, who was just re-elected to the International Olympic Committee, presented McIntosh with the gold medal.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2024.
