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- Summer McIntosh wins fourth gold of the World Aquatics Championships</p>
<p>George Ramsay, CNNAugust 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM</p>
<p>McIntosh won her fourth gold medal at the World Championships in the 400m medley. - Tingshu Wang/Reuters</p>
<p>Summer McIntosh won her fourth gold medal of the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore with a dominant performance in the 400-meter individual medley.</p>
<p>The Canadian teenager finished in 4:25.78 to set a new championship record and cap off a near-perfect meet with five medals across her events.</p>
<p>American superstar Katie Ledecky is the only other woman to win as many golds at a single World Championships, while only Sweden's Sarah Sjöström has matched McIntosh's tally of five medals.</p>
<p>With her bronze medal in the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday, McIntosh fell just short of matching Michael Phelps' record of five gold medals at a single World Championships.</p>
<p>"Overall, I'm happy with this World Championships," McIntosh told CBC News. "I have to be, four golds is something that I've never achieved at the world stage before.</p>
<p>"I broke my kind of curse of three – everything comes in threes but now everything comes in fours, and hopefully, I can push for everything to come in fives."</p>
<p>In Sunday's 400-meter individual medley, the 18-year-old finished more than seven seconds clear of Australia's Jenna Forrester and Japan's Mio Narita, who tied for silver with a time of 4:33.26.</p>
<p>China's 12-year-old Yu Zidi, who previously became the youngest medalist at the World Championships, was half a second outside the medals in fourth.</p>
<p>McIntosh now has 13 medals from the World Championships, including eight golds. In Singapore, she also took victories in the 400m freestyle, the 200m butterfly, and the 200m medley.</p>
<p>In the men's 400m medley, France's Léon Marchand won his second gold medal of the championships by completing a medley double.</p>
<p>His winning time of 4:04.73 saw him finish ahead of Japan's Tomoyuki Matsushita and Russian Ilia Borodin in second and third respectively, claiming his seventh career gold at the World Championships.</p>
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