Rooney makes bold McIntosh call as Nine lands broadcast rights to world swimming champs [Video]

Summer McIntosh could usurp Katie Ledecky as the greatest female swimmer of all time.

That’s the view of former Australian star Giaan Rooney after the Canadian’s latest record-breaking performance in the pool.

Having already broken Ariarne Titmus’ 400m freestyle world record and Katinka Hosszu’s 200m individual medley world mark, McIntosh sent the swimming world into another spin on Wednesday with a superb performance in the 200m butterfly at Canada’s world championship trials.

McIntosh clocked a time of 2:02.26, just outside the world record of 2:01.81 set in 2009 by China’s Zige Liu’s in a now-banned supersuit.

The 18-year-old could win as many as five individual gold medals at next month’s world championships in Singapore, which will be shown on the Nine Network. Could McIntosh go past Ledecky’s Olympic record of nine gold medals and counting?

“I do …