Taylor Ruck wins 5th medal at Pan Pacs, Summer McIntosh has sights set on 200m IM
The Pan Pacific championships saw Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck and Summer McIntosh experience two very different outcomes on Friday night in Irvine, Calif.
Ruck won a silver medal in the women ’s 100-metre butterfly event. She returned later in the night to claim bronze as part of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay team. It was her fourth and fifth medals, respectively, of the competition.
In the 100m butterfly, the 26-year-old from Kelowna, B.C. touched the wall in a personal-best time of 56.71 seconds, finishing behind American Gretchen Walsh, who won in a time of 55.15.
Australian Alexandria Perkins finished with the bronze medal after racing in 56.75.
Taylor Ruck swims to 100m butterfly silver at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
"This one [the women’s 100m butterfly] was a lot of fun," Ruck told CBC Sports reporter Devin Heroux. "I feel like I got good rest between prelims and finals, and did all the things just to try and feel relaxed, and just trust my body was going to do what it did."
On Wednesday, Ruck kicked off the Canadian medal count with a third-place finish in the women's 50m butterfly final before collecting a bronze in the 100m backstroke. She followed those events with a bronze as part of the women’s 4x100m medley relay team.
Taylor Ruck talks about winning her 4th Pan Pacific medal
The 19-year-old from Toronto did not hide her feelings after winning the B final of the women’s 400m freestyle event.
That’s because the current world-record holder, in a stunning turn of events during the morning heats, failed to qualify for the A final.
World record-holder McIntosh fails to qualify for 400m freestyle final, takes responsibility for 'misjudgment'
McIntosh took full responsibility for the for “my misjudgment in this morning's heats.”
“I was very mad at myself and I take full responsibility for missing that A final,” McIntosh told Heroux. “It was a complete misjudgment on my part, it’s something that should never happen. I promise that I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again. This meet is definitely not going the way I wanted it to go."
After winning the B race Summer McIntosh is still mad at herself for missing 400m freestyle final
