{"id":629893,"date":"2026-01-03T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=629893"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:56:03","slug":"summer-mcintosh-named-swimming-worlds-world-americas-female-swimmer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/summer-mcintosh-named-swimming-worlds-world-americas-female-swimmer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer McIntosh Named Swimming World’s World\/Americas Female Swimmer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer McIntosh named World Female Swimmer of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the start of a new Olympic quadrennial, 2025 was always going to be a year of experimentation for Summer McIntosh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now 19, she\u2019ll turn 22 just after the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, her third Games. It will fall not just in the prime of her career but at a central pivot in what is building toward one of the great careers the sport has ever known, with a home-continent advantage to boot.<\/p>\n

So the planning accelerated this year. There would be changes in training location, part of growing not just as a swimmer but as an adult. There would be tough choices of events, given her unprecedentedly voluminous areas of specialty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And there would be \u2013 for a swimmer who has the potential to reach heights attained only by swimmers like Phelps and Ledecky who need no first-name attribution \u2013 the kind of long-range planning that only such tremendous ability commands.<\/p>\n

McIntosh summarily aced her first test and is once again Swimming World\u2019s World Female Swimmer of the Year.<\/p>\n

The breakout star of the Paris Olympics won four gold and one bronze medal at the 2025 World Championships in Singapore. She set three world records at Canadian Trials in June, one of the great single-meet performances in history. And she\u2019s done it all with the weight of a target on her back.<\/p>\n