BUDAPEST — Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh smashed another short-course world record with a dominant victory in the women's 200-metre butterfly at the world championships on Thursday.
BUDAPEST — Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh smashed another short-course world record with a dominant victory in the women's 200-metre butterfly at the world championships on Thursday.
Minutes later, Ilya Kharun won the men's 200 butterfly to give Canada its third straight multi-medal day at the event. The 18-year-old McIntosh, from Toronto, won her race in one minute 59.32 seconds, well ahead of silver medallist Regan Smith of the United States . Bronze medallist Elizabeth Dekkers of Australia was almost four seconds behind McIntosh in 2:02.91.
Kharun, a 19-year-old rising star from Montreal, won his race in 1:48.24 to pick up his first career international gold medal. Alberto Razzetti of Italy was second and Poland's Krzysztof Chmielewski was third . McIntosh won her first career short-course gold Tuesday with a world-record performance in the 400 freestyle. She has two gold and a bronze so far in Budapest. She is wrapping up a stellar season that included three gold and a silver at the Paris Olympics.Thursday's results raised Canada's overall medal count to nine .
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