At Canada’s 2023 World Championships Trials, Summer McIntosh and Sydney Pickrem went 1-2 in the 200 IM, qualifying to swim the event at Fukuoka 2023. Based on the entries that have been published on World Aquatics, however, neither will race the event at Worlds. McIntosh does not appear on the list of entrants and Pickrem, while still technically entered, announced that she won’t be swimming at Worlds this summer due to personal reasons.
While she’s out of the 200 IM, McIntosh will still be busy in Fukuoka and is slated to race the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly, along with the two events in which she broke world records at Trials: the 400 freestyle and 400 IM.
In McIntosh’s absence, Mary-Sophie Harvey has been slotted in as Canada’s representative for the 200 IM. Considering that Pickrem is the other entrant but won’t be at the meet, Harvey will be Canada’s only woman in the event. Harvey placed 3rd in the 200 IM at Trials, hitting a time of 2:10.76 in the final to get under the FINA A cut of 2:12.98.
While that 2:10.76 is ultimately what got Harvey a spot on the team, she actually swam faster a few weeks later when she posted a time of 2:09.75 at the Monte Carlo stop of the Mare Nostrum tour. That was Harvey’s first time under 2:10 in the event. It will likely take a quicker swim than 2:09 to contend for a medal in this event, but Harvey will be a favorite for a final if she can replicate that 2:09 or get down to a 2:08 in Fukuoka.
Harvey will also race the 100 freestyle and 200 freestyle at the 2023 World Championships, having placed 2nd in both events at Trials. She is entered in the 100 freestyle despite having never cracked the current FINA A cut of 54.25 and she is entered alongside McIntosh in the 200 freestyle, having placed 2nd at Trials in 1:58.40 to clear the FINA A cut of 1:58.66.
Because she’s Canada’s only entrant in the 100 free, though, she can swim the event with just a “B” cut. Her best time is a 54.77 from the Barcelona stop of this year’s Mare Nostrum series.
Maggie MacNeil is not entered in the event for Canada, though she won the race at Canadian Trials.
Kate Douglass win will the W 200 IM if Kate Douglass does not swim in the final of the W 4 x 100 FR-R approximately fifteen minutes after swimming in the semifinals of the W 200 IM.
Is it completely false that Summer intends to swim for the USA for the 2028 Olympics?
umm is there any reason she’d be able to
That would be a pretty baller 4×200 though
Yes
always knew this would happen but its still a massive bummer
UVA just updated its Record Boards. KD holds the pool record at 50.47 (unrested) in her acknowledged worst stroke (back). Faster than Berkoff and the prior recordholder G Walsh (who has the school record). Just thought I’d give this board something to chew on. I know: it’s a bathtub. Blah, blah, blah.
Thats irrelevant for the 200IM because she consistently gets passed by Alex and other Intl athletes on that leg. Not discounting her speed, just saying that she cant be even close to compared to those swimmers you mentioned in backstroke.
2022 Short Course World Championships
Women’s 200 meter individual medley
Backstroke splits
Douglass – 31.29
Walsh – 30.57
McKeown – 30.50
https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/2894/16th-fina-world-swimming-championships-25m-2022/results?event=73768d14-d5c4-49bd-b235-7cf69f06366a
2023 Phillips 66 National Championships
Women’s 200 meter individual medley
Backstroke splits
Douglass – 33.48
Walsh – 32.10
https://www.omegatiming.com/2023/phillips-66-national-championships-live-results
McIntosh out and McKeown has a brutal double so seems to be Douglass’s for the taking now
Well I guess now Walsh and McKeown can medal. Doesn’t change anything for KD, she was gonna win anyway. Not sure why so many people thought Summer had this in the bag, she’s better at the 400.
Well… in March she did swim the fastest time swum by any woman in 7 years at age 16 (still remains true to today), and has been on a consistent and rapid improvement curve for a few years now. Perhaps not ‘in the bag’, but she was certainly the favorite or at least the one to beat.
But races are on won in the pool not hypothetical or virtual performance
So you think that Kate Douglas was “HYPOTHETICALLY” going to win because she is an American, even though Summer Macintosh is rapidly improving at 16?
do u know what hypothetical means? It’s not that she hypothetically could swim the fastest time by any woman in 7 years, it’s that she DID do that
Didn’t Summer go 2:06.9 already? Summer could easily have won this race. My vote goes to Dougie
Tbh given how insane her schedule was I always kinda assumed she’d drop something. I’m guessing she’s spent the last few weeks with her coaches/other support system agonizing over this decision. I hope it turns out to be the right one for her! Do people think this was her least likely gold? Or did she drop for schedule reasons? I suppose it could also be something to do with her training that we don’t know about!
It’s obviously for scheduling reasons
i would say the 200 free is definitely her least likely gold and maybe the 200 fly is less likely as well (only 1.5 real competitors if you count Yufei as half in that event versus 3 in the 200 IM, but Regan’s PB is significantly faster) but yeah definitely scheduling reasons
SwimSwam needs to revise the W 200 IM picks. Rethink your picks wisely …………..
https://youtu.be/JSfmot98HiI