Summer Mcintosh wins 200 IM over Kate Douglass; Alex Walsh DQed

Summer Mcintosh wins 200 IM over Kate Douglass; Alex Walsh DQed

NANTERRE, France — Canadian swimmer Summer season McIntosh gained her fourth medal and third gold on the Paris Olympics, ending first within the girls’s 200-meter particular person medley Saturday at Paris La Défense Area. 

McIntosh out-touched American Kate Douglass and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown, profitable in an Olympic-record time of two:06.56. Douglass earned silver with a time of two:06.92 and McKeown bronze in 2:08.08.

American Alex Walsh initially completed in bronze medal place however was disqualified for not finishing the backstroke leg totally on her again, a World Aquatics consultant confirmed. Walsh took the silver within the 200 IM on the Tokyo Olympics.

McIntosh has been one of many swimming stars in Paris after profitable gold medals within the 400 particular person medley and 200-meter butterfly and silver within the 400-meter freestyle.

Douglas had gained gold earlier on the Paris Video games within the 200-meter breaststroke and earned silver with the U.S. girls’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay workforce. Bronze medalist McKeown swept the backstroke occasions earlier this week to make Australian swimming historical past.

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In Friday’s semifinal, Walsh was the highest qualifier, adopted by McIntosh and Douglass in second and third, respectively. The trio was greater than a second sooner within the semifinal than Nice Britain’s Abbie Wooden in fourth.