Video: 16-Year-Old Australian Swimming Sensation’s World Record Breaking Performance Leaves Family Emotional

Last week, the swimming world witnessed some miraculous performances by a 16-year-old Canadian swimmer. World records (WR) were broken like some regular school records. In the ongoing Canadian Swimming Trials, young Summer McIntosh didn’t just give trials for representing her country but alerted the whole swimming world of her prowess. McIntosh began the week by creating a record in Women’s 400m freestyle on Tuesday and ended it with another WR in 400m IM.

Concerning the latter, an outstanding sight was captured on the camera. The McIntosh family was spotted cheering for their girl with the utmost excitement. CBC Olympics shared the delightful clip on their official Twitter account, where McIntosh’s family was jumping and shouting to cheer their girl. In fact, the whole arena looked like cheering for the 16-year-old as she swam the last 50m. Let us have a look at what happened in the Toronto Pan Am Sports Center on Saturday.

Pure emotions were captured as the 16-year-old put out a sensational performance

Summer McIntosh gave some out-of-the-world performances. On Saturday, when she participated in 400m IM, she broke Katinka Hosszu’s seven-year-old WR (04:26.36), with a timing of 04:25.87. Her family was present in the arena to support her throughout the event. In the clip shared by CBC Olympics on Twitter, their exuberant energy can be seen oozing out from the screen.

Her parents were on their feet jumping and shouting with hands in the air as their daughter neared the 400m distance. As she neared to touch the wall, the family cheers grew only louder in the company of her sisters as well. The race ended and history was made. As she finished with record-breaking time, the family let out their emotions and joined for a big family hug to sink in the joy. 

CBC captioned, “A legendary performance calls for a legendary reaction The McIntosh family watching Summer break her second World Record is what you need on your Saturday night Summer McIntosh set a new WR in the 400m IM with a time of 4:25.87″ 

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Not just the WR, the 16-year-old improved her performance by nearly three seconds as her previous best was 4:28.61. As CBC reported, McIntosh has become the fastest 400m IM of all time. On the other hand, she has also become the only swimmer in history to hold 400m freestyle and IM records at the same time. Moving on, let us have a look at what Summer had to say after creating the second WR in a week.

Summer McIntosh is filled with gratitude

Trailing behind by a couple of seconds from the WR prior to the trials, McIntosh is now leaving with at least two, with a 200m freestyle to go tonight. While speaking with CBC sports, McIntosh said, “It’s obviously really amazing and I’m happy to get another world record. Right now I’m just thinking about my legs. The 400m IM is one of the toughest events out there so going into tonight, whatever the time was, the time would be. Just tried to do my best and whatever that is I would be happy with it.”

Referring to her sisters and family in the stands, she said, “For them to all be in the stands, I think this is the first time my sister has watched me compete in so long and I’m so grateful for her to witness this moment with me and enjoy it together. I can’t wait to see her later.”

McIntosh has been on fire in these trials. In other words, the swimming world will be a witness to some incredible clashes when this young talent will go all out and compete against the established legends of the world. But for now, the McIntosh family will cherish these priceless moments for a long time!

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