Swimming-Titmus on right track ahead of McIntosh showdown at worlds: Taylor

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Swimming - Women's 800m Freestyle - Final- Tokyo Aquatics Centre - Tokyo, Japan - July 31, 2021. Ariarne Titmus of Australia in action REUTERS/Marko Djurica/File Photo

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia head coach Rohan Taylor says Ariarne Titmus is tracking in the right direction ahead of her world championships showdown with Summer McIntosh despite falling well short of snatching back her 400m freestyle world record this week.

Titmus qualified for Fukuoka with a dominant 400m win at world championship trials in Melbourne on Tuesday but her time of three minutes, 58.47 seconds was more than two seconds outside McIntosh’s new world best of 3:56.08 set in March.