Summer McIntosh took three gold and one silver at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer.
The teenager from Toronto has, despite her young age, already collected four World Championship gold in long course and as many in short course.
When she at the Canadian World Championship selections in June set three world records (on 200 and 400 meters medley and 400 meters freestyle) in five days, it meant that the prodigy was thus the holder of a total of six world records in long and short course.
This makes her third of all time in the swimming world.
Number one on that list, according to the major American swimming site Swimswam, is Sarah Sjöström, who is skipping the World Championship as she is going to become a mother.
"Always get faster"
When the super Swede in August 2017 set a world record on 100 meters freestyle in short course, she was the holder of a total of eight world records at the same time. Today, when she has cut down on the number of events, Sjöström holds three world records, all in long course.
Summer McIntosh was at the World Championship selections only 45 hundredths from the world record on 200 meters butterfly and 95 hundredths on 800 meters freestyle.
My goal is always to get faster, that's what I focus my training on. My biggest goal in the World Championship is to put my hand on the wall first in as many events as possible, but with that goal, it's likely to be some world records too, says McIntosh in connection with a digital press conference earlier in July.
The Canadian will for the first time in a championship at world level swim five individual events.
All with the aim of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles where the goal is to take five gold.
Phelps' cool conversation
After the World Championship in Singapore, Summer McIntosh will start training with the demo coach Bob Bowman, who guided the Frenchman Leon Marchand to four Olympic gold in Paris last year, but above all trained the Olympic king Michael Phelps.
It's awesome and very inspiring to see what he's done with Leon (Marchand) and other swimmers, along with what he did with Michael Phelps. Just talking to him will make me grow both as a swimmer and as a person, she says about Bowman.
After the record hunt in June, Michael Phelps called and congratulated.
It was so cool, she says.
I didn't think it was true that Michael Phelps called. I had never expected that. He was so nice and down-to-earth, it was cool to talk to my childhood idol, an honor, she says.
Here are those who have held the most number of world records in swimming in short and long course at the same time:
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Sarah Sjöström, Sweden, 8. 50 and 100 meters freestyle and 50 and 100 meters butterfly (long course), 50, 100 and 200 meters freestyle (short course). August 2017.
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Katinka Hosszu, Hungary, 7. 200 meters medley (long course), 100 and 200 meters backstroke, 100, 200 and 400 meters medley (short course). August 2016.
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Summer McIntosh, Canada, 6. 200 and 400 meters medley, 400 freestyle (long course), 400 meters freestyle, 200 meters butterfly, 400 meters medley (short course). June 2025.
Source: Swimswam.
