PARIS – Summer season McIntosh and Canada’s 4×100 relay groups superior to their finals because the swimming competitors kicked off Saturday on the Paris Olympics.
The 17-year-old McIntosh from Toronto certified for the ultimate of the ladies’s 400-metre freestyle by ending second in her warmth and fourth general.
The previous world report holder within the occasion will look to enhance on her fourth-place end on the Tokyo Video games when she swims within the last later Saturday at Paris La Protection Area.
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Toronto’s Penny Oleksiak, Mary-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Rivières, Que., Brooklyn Douthwright of Riverview, N.B., and Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., certified sixth within the girls’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay, whereas Finlay Knox of Okotoks, Alta., Yuri Kisil of Calgary, and Javier Acevedo and Josh Liendo, each kind Toronto, certified fifth for the lads’s last.
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Each freestyle relay finals are scheduled for later Saturday.
Additionally Saturday, Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont., took second place in her warmth and certified seventh general for the ladies’s 100-metre butterfly semifinals, that are set to be held later within the day.
The 24-year-old, who’s the defending champion within the occasion, will look to maneuver on to Sunday’s last.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed July 27, 2024.
Word to readers: It is a corrected story. A earlier model stated Mac Neil superior to the 100 butterfly last. In actual fact, she superior to the semifinals.
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