Canada’s Summer McIntosh retained her world title in the women’s 200m butterfly final on Thursday at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
The 16-year-old swimmer from Toronto finished in two minutes, 4.06 seconds — a new Canadian and world junior record.
Australia’s Elizabeth Dekkers took silver in 2:05.46, while American Regan Smith claimed bronze in 2:06.58.
After the medal ceremony, McIntosh told CBC Sports reporter Devin Heroux that her game plan was to keep things light.
“Going into this race I knew I’d [won] world champion last year, and that was kind of unexpected for me,” she said. “I was just trying to have as much fun as possible and race as hard as I
