Canadian Summer McIntosh clocked the second-fastest 400m freestyle swim in history on Thursday, touching in 3min 55.37sec to win at the US Open long course meeting in Austin, Texas.

McIntosh, winner of three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics and four world titles in Singapore this year, said she was "pumped up" for her first competition since she began training with new coach Bob Bowman in Austin, and it showed.

"This was my first race back for the season, my first under Bob, so I was pretty pumped up for it," McIntosh told streaming service Peacock.

"That's definitely by far the fastest I’ve gone in-season, so I’m excited at what I can do in the next coming months."

The 19-year-old had been forced to pull out of her scheduled short course World Cup appearances in October because

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