Will Summer McIntosh break more records at the Canadian trials?

Last year, Summer McIntosh turned in a performance for the ages at the Canadian swimming trials in Victoria, winning all five of her events and becoming the first swimmer to break three individual world records at the same meet since Michael Phelps during his legendary eight-gold-medal performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

McIntosh's feat is even more impressive when you recall the details. Over a span of just five days, the then 18-year-old phenom seized the 400-metre freestyle world record from reigning Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus, lowered her own record in the women's 400m individual medley by about three quarters of a second, and broke nine-time world champion Katinka Hosszu's decade-old mark in the 200m IM.

And her non-world-record swims may have been just as impressive. McIntosh came within a second of nine-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky's mark in the 800m freestyle — a distance she did not even swim at the 2024 Olympics. And she was less than a half second away from taking down the oldest women's swimming world record on the books: Liu Zige's 200m butterfly standard from 2009, during the ludicrous super-suit era.

"This has probably been the best meet of my career,” said McIntosh, who a year earlier had won a Canadian-record three gold medals plus a silver in her four solo events at the Paris Olympics.

And it probably was. For about a minute. Because, a couple months later in Singapore, McIntosh had arguably the best world championships ever by a female swimmer, winning four gold medals and a bronze. Though she fell just short of her audacious bid to match Phelps' record of five individual golds in a single worlds (set in 2007), McIntosh joined Ledecky as the only women to win four solo golds and