World Aquatics Names Summer time McIntosh, Leon Marchand 2025 Swimmers of the 12 months
For the second straight yr, World Aquatics has named Summer time McIntosh and Leon Marchand its World Swimmers of the 12 months.
Each repeat in that function after breakout campaigns on the 2024 Paris Olympics that they carried into the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore in 2025.
Feminine Swimmer of the 12 months McIntosh had one of many excellent single-meet performances ever in June, profitable 5 occasions and setting three world report at 2025 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria, British Columbia. She set the world report within the ladies’s 400 freestyle at 3:54.18, improved her world report within the 400 particular person medley to 4:23.65 and downed Katinka Hosszu’s long-standing mark within the 200 IM in 2:05.70. She additionally set the quickest textile time in historical past within the ladies’s 200 fly and the No. 2 all-time efficiency within the 800 freestyle.
The 19-year-old Canadian is the primary swimmer to set three particular person world information in the identical meet since Michael Phelps on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the primary girl to take action since Inge de Bruijn on the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
In Singapore, McIntosh gained gold within the 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM to go together with bronze within the 800 free. She gained three gold and one silver medal on the Paris Olympics final yr.
Marchand is once more the recipient of the Male Swimmer of the 12 months honor. The Frenchman was an icon of the Paris Video games, profitable 4 gold medals in his dwelling nation. Whereas his racing calendar was pared down in 2025, he remained excellent in what he known as “extra like a transition yr.”
His transition included a long-sought world report within the males’s 200 IM, the 23-year-old going 1:52.69 to annihilate the 14-year-old mark of Ryan Lochte by greater than a second. He gained gold within the race handily the following day in 1:53.68, added gold within the 400 IM and likewise helped France to a silver medal within the males’s medley relay.
