Canada’s women swim to fourth, set new Canadian record in 4 x 200m relay at Tokyo Olympics

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Team finished just shy of a fifth medal in the pool

– swam the fastest-ever 4 x 200 m relay in Canadian history on Thursday. But the Chinese, Americans and Australians were blazing fast and couldn’t be caught, finishing in that order.

But McIntosh misses out on a medal at her first Olympics. However, with her leg of the relay , the youngster lowered the Canadian national age-group record for the 13-14 year-old age group for the second time at these Olympics. “No because of them,” said McIntosh grabbing onto the arms of her older teammates. “They’ve been through this before, they know what to expect, and they’ve definitely taken care of me.”

Sanchez, swam a personal best to qualify for the 100-m freestyle semi-finals but dropped out to concentrate on the relay as the team tried to equal or better the bronze medal the 4x200-m freestyle had achieved in Rio.

 

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