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- Summer McIntosh caps swimming world championships with fourth gold</p>
<p>Field Level MediaAugust 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM</p>
<p>Swimming - World Aquatics Championships - Women's 400m Medley Final - World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore - August 3, 2025 Canada's Summer McIntosh in action. (REUTERS/Tingshu Wang)</p>
<p>Summer McIntosh captured her fourth gold medal at the world swimming championships by winning the 400-meter individual medley on Sunday in Singapore.</p>
<p>McIntosh, an 18-year-old from Toronto, finished the race in 4 minutes, 25.78 seconds, nearly 7.5 seconds better than Australia's Jenna Forrester and Japan's Mio Narita.</p>
<p>McIntosh also secured gold in the 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter medley and 400-meter freestyle as well as the bronze in the 800-meter freestyle. She joined American star Katie Ledecky as the only other female swimmer to claim four individual golds at a world championships, with the latter winning the 200-, 400-, 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle in 2015.</p>
<p>Also Sunday, the United States' women's 4x100 medley team of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske broke their own record by finishing the event in 3:49.34, That was 0.29 better than the previous mark.</p>
<p>"This is the best way to end the meet," Walsh said. "And I feel like we have such a good opportunity when you have this stacked group of women closing it out on a relay like this.</p>
<p>"We're going to leave Singapore with a smile on our faces."</p>
<p>From a team perspective, the Americans recorded nine gold medals -- one better than Australia.</p>
<p>France finished third followed by Canada, which saw McIntosh win all of its golds.</p>
<p>--Field Level Media</p>
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