{"id":629915,"date":"2025-12-31T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=629915"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:45:59","slug":"world-aquatics-names-summer-mcintosh-leon-marchand-2025-swimmers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-aquatics-names-summer-mcintosh-leon-marchand-2025-swimmers-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"World Aquatics Names Summer McIntosh, Leon Marchand 2025 Swimmers of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Aquatics Names Summer McIntosh, Leon Marchand 2025 Swimmers of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the second straight year, World Aquatics has named Summer McIntosh<\/strong> and Leon Marchand<\/strong> its World Swimmers of the Year.<\/p>\n

Both repeat in that role<\/a> after breakout campaigns at the 2024 Paris Olympics that they carried into the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore in 2025.<\/p>\n

Female Swimmer of the Year McIntosh had one of the outstanding single-meet performances ever in June, winning five events and setting three world record at 2025 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria, British Columbia. She set the world record in the women\u2019s 400 freestyle at 3:54.18, improved her world record in the 400 individual medley to 4:23.65 and downed Katinka Hosszu\u2019s<\/strong> long-standing mark in the 200 IM in 2:05.70. She also set the fastest textile time in history in the women\u2019s 200 fly and the No. 2 all-time performance in the 800 freestyle.<\/p>\n