Mary Jibb has set the tone for Canada at the Para swimming world championships.

Jibb earned the first gold medal for the 19-member team in Singapore, lowering her Canadian and Americas record to two minutes 32.90 seconds in the women's 200-metre individual medley SM9 final on Monday.

In her morning preliminary race, the 18-year-old broke the previous Canadian/Americas mark of 2:37.54 by Stephanie Dixon from the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing.

The 2:32.90 performance on the second day of competition would have won gold at the Paralympics last summer in Paris.

"I definitely feel like it hasn't sunk in yet. A year ago, I would never have dreamed that I would be standing on top of the world podium," Jibb told Swimming Canada from the OCBC Aquatic Centre within the Singapore Sports Hub.

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