2022 Commonwealth Games: McIntosh wins 400 individual medley on record-breaking night; Ghana boxer suspended over doping
- Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh blows away competition in Birmingham
- Australian Kiah Melverton finished 7.77 seconds behind McIntosh for the silver medal
After her success at the world swimming championships in June, Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh triumphed again at the Commonwealth Games on Friday.
The 15-year-old McIntosh, who became the first Canadian to win two gold medals at a single championship in Budapest, easily beat her opposition in the 400m individual medley.
On a night when several Commonwealth Games records were set and the first positive doping test was announced – a boxer from Ghana has been suspended – McIntosh had a personal best of 4:29.01 in her dominant win.
Australian Kiah Melverton finished 7.77 seconds behind McIntosh for the silver medal.
McIntosh is the third-fastest performer in the event’s history and is closing the gap on the world record of 4:26.36 set by Hungarian Katinka Hosszu at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
“I was excited to re-do my time from the worlds and see what I can do to get better,” McIntosh said. “I’ve been working on a lot of stuff in training so I can execute my 400 IM better than I did at the worlds, because I had so much room for improvement, and I still do.”
