Summer McIntosh Switching Up Schedule For Indy Stop of World Cup Circuit
Canadian teenage star Summer McIntosh has adjusted her schedule for this week’s FINA World Cup competition in Indianapolis. Coming off world junior records in the 400-meter freestyle and 400 individual medley at the Toronto stop of the series, McIntosh will contest a different set of events at the revered Indiana University Natatorium.
In Indianapolis, McIntosh will race the 50 butterfly, 200 butterfly, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle and 800 freestyle. Based on her form from last week, the 16-year-old is expected to threaten the world junior records in the 200 butterfly and 200 freestyle. The WJR in the 200 fly sits at 2:02.96, while the 200 free standard is 1:52.85.
McIntosh is the reigning world champion in the 200 fly and has been as fast as 2:05.20 in the long-course version of the event. As for the 200 freestyle, McIntosh’s performance of 3:52.80 in the 400 freestyle from Toronto, where she edged Katie Ledecky, suggests that she’ll make a strong run at the WJR, if not easily lower the mark.
Ledecky and McIntosh will clash again in Indianapolis, this time in the 800 freestyle, where American rising teen Katie Grimes is also entered. Ledecky is expected to better the world record in the event, which is held by Spain’s Mireia Belmonte. On the way to the world record in the 1500 freestyle last week, Ledecky set the American record in the 800 freestyle.