Summer McIntosh of Canada makes it two gold medals in two days at the world swim championships

SINGAPORE AP Two days Two gold medals Summer McIntosh is off to a perfect start at the swimming world championships in her attempt to win five individual gold medals a feat only achieved by American legend Michael Phelps The -year-old Canadian took the -meter individual medley on Monday clocking The achievement matched the gold she won Sunday in the freestyle Alex Walsh of the United States claimed the silver in with bronze going to Mary-Sophie Harvey of Canada in The winning time trailed McIntosh s world record of And she was not content Going in tonight my goal was to get my hand on the wall first McIntosh declared So to get that done is good I m not super happy with my time But honestly at a world championships my goal is just to go as fast as I can against my competitors Still happy with the gold and hoping to keep up my streak next time Yu Zidi a Chinese -year-old finished fourth in just missing a medal as she astounds the swim world with her times She is also due to compete in the IM and butterfly likely her strongest events McIntosh will chase three more golds in the IM free and the butterfly over the next six days in Singapore Gretchen Walsh broke through on Monday with the first gold in Singapore for the United States taking the butterfly in The silver medalist a year ago in Paris Walsh was just off her world-record time of set earlier this year Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium took silver in and Alexandria Perkins of Australia claimed bronze in Walsh acknowledged in a post-race interview at poolside that the American gang had been hit with a bout of what crew personnel called acute gastroenteritis It was picked up at a training camp in Thailand prior to arrival in Singapore U S personnel have established the outbreak but have given scant details and did not name swimmer nor say how plenty of were affected It was not easy and I m just really proud of myself Walsh commented thrilled to be under seconds It took a lot of guts I just desired to go out there and do it for my band just represent the flag well It came out of somewhere but I m really really happy Two other finals wrapped up Monday s schedule Qin Haiyang the world champion in defeated Paris Olympic winner Nicolo Martinenghi of Italy in the breaststroke Qin clocked to give China its first gold in Singapore with the Italian swimmer finishing in Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan took bronze in I ve been injured and it s not been easy to get back to my best Haiyang declared I m at best at I m perhaps lucky This definitely helps with my confidence In the men s butterfly Maxime Grousset of France edged Noe Ponti of Switzerland Grousset clocked with Ponti finishing in Thomas Ceccon of Italy took bronze in In the four semifinals Paris Olympics bronze medalist Luke Hobson of the United States led free qualifying with Paris champion David Popovici of Romania in fourth Hubert K s of Hungary headed a very fast men s backstroke in American Regan Smith led the women s backstroke ahead of two-time Australian Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown Kate Douglass of the United States swam a personal best in the breaststroke and will be the top seed in Tuesday s final AP sports https apnews com hub sports Source