{"id":859122,"date":"2026-08-15T14:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859122\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:52:15","slug":"canadian-ruck-wins-4th-and-5th-medals-of-pan-pacs-mcintosh-mad-at-missing-400m-freestyle-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859122\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Ruck wins 4th and 5th medals of Pan Pacs; McIntosh ‘mad’ at missing 400m freestyle final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pan Pacific championships saw Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck and Summer McIntosh experience two very different outcomes on Friday night in Irvine, Calif.<\/p>\n

Ruck won a silver medal in the women \u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Australian Alexandria Perkins finished with the bronze medal after racing in 56.75.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Ruck delivers silver medal:\"\"<\/p>\n

Taylor Ruck swims to 100m butterfly silver at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships<\/p>\n

Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., swam to a new personal best time of 56.71 to capture silver in the 100-metre butterfly.<\/p>\n

“This one [the women\u2019s 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.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 4x100m medley relay team.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Ruck claims butterfly medal:\"\"<\/p>\n

Taylor Ruck talks about winning her 4th Pan Pacific medal<\/p>\n

After winning her fourth medal at the 2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Taylor Ruck talks about her experience in Irvine, California.’I was very mad at myself’<\/p>\n

For McIntosh, things couldn’t have gone worse.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old from Toronto did not hide her feelings after winning the B final of the women\u2019s 400m freestyle event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the current world-record holder, in a stunning turn of events during the morning heats, failed to qualify for the A final.<\/p>\n

McIntosh took full responsibility for the for \u201cmy misjudgment in this morning’s heats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very mad at myself and I take full responsibility for missing that A final,\u201d McIntosh told Heroux. \u201cIt was a complete misjudgment on my part, it\u2019s something that should never happen. I promise that I\u2019ll make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again. This meet is definitely not going the way I wanted it to go.”<\/p>\n

WATCH | McIntosh not happy with missing out on 400m free final:\"\"<\/p>\n

After winning the B race Summer McIntosh is still mad at herself for missing 400m freestyle final<\/p>\n

Summer McIntosh told CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux about her array of emotions after missing out on the women’s 400-metre freestyle final.<\/p>\n

McIntosh placed second in the women’s 200m freestyle event on Wednesday, finishing behind Australian Lani Pallister. She rebounded on Thursday to capture gold in the 400m individual medley.<\/p>\n

In the 400m A final on Friday, Pallister won the gold medal in a time of three minutes 58.42 seconds. American great Katie Ledecky finished second in 4:00.15, while Erika Fairweather, of New Zealand, placed third in 4:02.35.<\/p>\n

As for McIntosh, the Canadian is still trying to process what went wrong in the heats. <\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think I really have the words for it right now,” she said. “I think it\u2019s a lot of frustration and, you know, I\u2019ll definitely have to be doing a lot after the meet is over to figure out where I\u2019ve gone wrong in training. I know I\u2019ve trained as best as I can to prepare for this. It\u2019s a couple of weeks of preparation after getting sick [at the Canadian trials] and things like that, but obviously there is no excuse. It sucks that I missed that final.”<\/p>\n

McIntosh will have little time to dwell on her disappointing day. She’ll race in the 200m IM on Saturday, an event where she’s the world-record holder and is both the Olympic and world champion. <\/p>\n

Canadians Tierney, Ekk reach podium<\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, Canadians Blake Tierney and Ethan Ekk captured silver and bronze, respectively, in the men\u2019s 200m backstroke.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s Tierney finished second in 1:56.29. He was followed by Ekk, who completed the race in 1:56.85.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty special that we\u2019re both on the podium,\u201d Tierney told Heroux.\u201d<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Yumeki Kojima won the gold medal in a time of 1:55.38.<\/p>\n

Tierney is having a breakthrough event. On Wednesday, he won the men’s 100m backstroke. <\/p>\n

It was the first international gold medal of Tierney’s career.<\/p>\n

“I had a good year of training. Training pays off,” Tierney said.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Tierney, Ekk go silver, bronze:\"\"<\/p>\n

Blake Tierney takes silver and Ethan Ekk captures bronze in the 200m backstroke<\/p>\n

Blake Tierney of Saskatoon swam to a time of 1:56.29 to finish second in the Pan Pacific 200-metre backstroke race. Teammate Ethan Ekk landed bronze with a time of 1:56.85.Ruck claims 5th medal in relay event<\/p>\n

Leading off the first leg, Ruck guided Canada to a bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ruck, along with teammates Mary-Sophie Harvey, Leah Tigert and Leilani Fack finished in a time of 3:36.44.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Women take relay bronze:\"\"<\/p>\n

Canadian women swim to Pan Pacific bronze in 4x100m freestyle relay<\/p>\n

The Canadian team of Taylor Ruck, Mary-Sophie Harvey, Leah Tigert, and Leilani Fack swam to a time of 3:36.44, finishing third in the Pan Pacific 4×100-metre freestyle relay race.<\/p>\n

The U.S., made up of Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske and Simone Manuel claimed gold in 3:29.32.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Australian team (Meg Harris, Alexandria Perkins, Milla Jansen and Olivia Wunsch), finished with the silver medal in 3:31.11.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Canadian men\u2019s 4x100m freestyle team couldn\u2019t match what the women accomplished.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team of Ruslan Gaziev, Yuri Kisil, Finlay Knox and Javier Acevedo pushed for a podium spot but untimely placed fourth in 3:14.11.<\/p>\n

The U.S., (3:09.01) won gold, followed by Australia (3:09.57) and Japan (3:13.53).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pan Pacific championships saw Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck and Summer McIntosh experience two very different outcomes on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-859122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}