'Goal is to always win': What heights can Canada's Summer McIntosh reach at world championships?

For the last number of years Canadian swimming teenage superstar Summer McIntosh has been racking up international medals, breaking national and world records and rewriting history. Her star continues to rise at a meteoric clip, something that doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. 

It's the expectation now that when McIntosh is swimming, something spectacular is going to happen. And while many have felt that sooner or later she has to come back down to earth, Summer continues to swim in the clouds and take her performances to another level. 

In a lot of ways her excellence has been normalized, yet what we continue to see is anything but normal. This current moment, though, just days away from another world championship for the young Canadian, feels different. 

These world championships pose an entirely new challenge for McIntosh, something the greats crave; the best in their respective sport are always trying to find new ways to push the limits and boundaries on what is possible.

McIntosh enters her third long course world championships competing in five individual events internationally for the first time. At the worlds in 2022 she swam three individual events, while at the 2023 worlds did four and did the same at the Paris Olympics, where she won three gold and one silver.

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Summer McIntosh set to join the ranks of the swimming greats at this summer's world championships

The 18-year-old global phenom arrives in Singapore as the two-time defending champion in the 200-metre butterfly and 400m individual medley. She's coming off a jaw-dropping Canadian trials at the beginning of June where she broke three world records in five