Canada’s Summer McIntosh Wins Another Swimming Gold at the Paris Olympics

Published on August 3, 2024

NANTERRE, France—Summer McIntosh of Canada stamped herself as one of the swimming stars of the Paris Olympics with her third individual gold medal Saturday night. The 17-year-old chased down American Alex Walsh and held off another U.S. swimmer, Kate Douglass, to finish in an Olympic record of 2 minutes, 6.56 seconds. Douglass grabbed the silver in the star-studded final at 2:06.92, but the Americans lost the bronze when Walsh, the silver medalist in this event at Tokyo who recorded a time of 2:07.06, was disqualified because she did not finish the backstroke segment on her back. McKeown, who touched fourth, was bumped up to the bronze at 2:08.08....

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