Toronto's Summer McIntosh wins gold in 200m butterfly at World Aquatics Championship

FUKUOKA, Japan - This was the dominant performance SummerThe 16-year-old from Toronto defended her world title in the women's 200-metre butterfly in spectacular fashion on Thursday.led the race at every split and set world junior, Canadian and Americas records with her time of two minutes 4.06 seconds.and Masse are also the only Canadians with three career gold medals at the long-course world championships.

On Thursday, she was fully in the form that saw her win four medals in her world championships debut last year in Budapest, Hungary. She will look to channel that momentum when she attempts to defend her 400m individual medley title on Sunday.got a hug from her parents over the railing as she did her victory lap with the gold medal.. `'I hadn't seen them in a while with being away for so long with staging camp and things like that.

Also Thursday, Masse, of LaSalle, Ont., finished fourth in the 50m backstroke in 27.28. Australia's Kaylee McKeown won gold ahead of Smith and Britain's Lauren Cox .Australia set a world record in the women's 4x200 freestyle relay in 7:37.50. The Americans followed in 7:41.38 and China was third in 7:44.40., Emma O'Croinin of Edmonton and Brooklyn Douthwright of Riverview, N.B.

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