Summer McIntosh captures Canada’s 1st medal in Paris with women’s 400m freestyle silver | CBC Sports

Summer McIntosh has won Canada’s first medal of the Olympic Games in Paris with a silver in swimming’s 400-metre freestyle.

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus defended her Olympic crown in a time of three minutes 3:57.49 seconds ahead of McIntosh in 3:58.37 and bronze medallist Katie Ledecky of the United States in 4:00.86.

McIntosh nearly won the first Olympic medal of her career in the 400 free as a 14-year-old three years ago in Tokyo, but placed fourth.

Also, defending women’s 100-metre butterfly champion Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont., qualified for the final of that event.

She tied for the fourth-fasted time in the semifinals.

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Other Canadian results:

• Women’s 4×100 relay squad (Penny Oleksiak, Mary-Sophie Harvey, Brooklyn Douthwright, Taylor Ruck) was sixth of eight teams advancing to 3:34 p.m. final with 3:35.29 clocking. Australia qualified first in 3:31.57. Oleksiak had the Canadians sitting second following her opening leg. For the final, Canada has confirmed a lineup change. Summer McIntosh, Taylor Ruck, Maggie Mac Neil and Penny Oleksiak will compete, in that order.
• Men’s 4×100 relay team of Finlay Knox, Yuri Kisil, Javier Acevedo and Josh Liendo qualified fifth (3:12.77) for Saturday final at 3:44 p.m. China posted the best time at 3:11.62. There’s been an order change for the final, with Canada now lining up Josh Liendo, Yuri Kisil, Finlay Knox and Javier Acevedo.