Summer McIntosh to overlook the rest of 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup to concentrate on restoration

Canada’s Olympic and world champion Summer McIntosh has withdrawn from all three stops of the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup after ‘unexpectedly’ falling unwell, lacking what was meant to be her first main competitors underneath new coach Bob Bowman.

The 19-year-old, who had already skipped the opening occasion in Carmel, Indiana, confirmed she won’t race in Westmont, Illinois (17–19 October), nor in her hometown finale in Toronto (23–25 October). “She’s especially disappointed” to overlook the meet following her physician’s recommendation, her spokesperson instructed CBC Sports, including that she is now totally specializing in relaxation and restoration.

This marks an sudden pause for McIntosh, who has had a exceptional 12 months.

At the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, she captured 4 gold medals and one bronze, and at the moment holds world information within the 200 and 400 metre particular person medley and 400 metre freestyle, in addition to the Olympic report within the 200 metre butterfly from Paris 2024.

The World Cup tour options among the largest names in swimming, together with Paris 2024 silver medallist within the males’s 100m butterfly Josh Liendo, ladies’s 200m backstroke bronze medallist Kylie Masse, Mary-Sophie Harvey, and Ilya Kharun, who’re all nonetheless set to compete, with Kharun claiming back-to-back butterfly gold medals on the tour’s opening cease.