The captivating beauty of the 17-year-old female swimmer who won two gold medals at the Paris Olympics
Báo Dân trí•02/08/2024
(Dan Tri) - 17-year-old female swimmer, Summer McIntosh, caused a stir at the 2024 Paris Olympics not only with her captivating beauty but also by winning two gold medals and one silver medal for the Canadian swimming team.
Early morning of August 2 (Vietnam time), Canadian athlete Summer McIntosh excellently won the gold medal in the women's 200m butterfly event on the 6th competition day of the 2024 Paris Olympics (Photo: Getty).
The 17-year-old swimmer also set an Olympic record with a time of 2:03.86, leaving her opponents far behind in the final 50m. American swimmer Regan Smith was 0.81 seconds behind Summer McIntosh and only won silver, while Chinese athlete Zhang Yufei, who held the Olympic record in this event, only won bronze (Photo: Getty). This is also Summer McIntosh's second gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, having previously won a gold medal in the women's 400m medley. She also won a silver medal in the women's 400m freestyle (Photo: Getty). Before the 2024 Paris Olympics, the beautiful 17-year-old Canadian swimmer was considered an interesting unknown even though she held the world record in the 400m medley and had won the world championship in this event four times (Photo: Getty). The moment Summer McIntosh crossed the finish line and won gold in the women's 200m butterfly (Photo: Getty). The 2024 Paris Olympics will be Summer McIntosh's second Olympics appearance, after she made her debut in Tokyo at just 14 years old (Photo: Getty). The female swimmer born in 2006 still has a chance to increase her medal count in Paris in the women's 200m individual medley and the women's 4x200m freestyle relay (Photo: Getty). In real life, Summer McIntosh is a simple and happy girl. Talking about the secret to winning gold medals at the Olympics, the Canadian athlete revealed: "It's much simpler than people think. All I do is eat and sleep when I'm not swimming - to give my brain as much rest as possible" (Photo: Getty). McIntosh's victory (centre, gold medalist at the 2023 world championships) marks the third consecutive Olympics where a Canadian woman has won gold (previously Penny Oleksiak, 100m freestyle at Rio 2016 and Maggie Mac Neil, 100m butterfly at Tokyo 2020) (Photo: Getty).
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