World Aquatics Names Summer McIntosh, Leon Marchand 2025 Swimmers of the Year

World Aquatics Names Summer McIntosh, Leon Marchand 2025 Swimmers of the Year

For the second straight yr, World Aquatics has named Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand its World Swimmers of the Year.

Both repeat in that role after breakout campaigns on the 2024 Paris Olympics that they carried into the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore in 2025.

Female Swimmer of the Year McIntosh had one of many excellent single-meet performances ever in June, successful 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 data 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 received gold within the 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM to go together with bronze within the 800 free. She received three gold and one silver medal on the Paris Olympics final yr.

Marchand is once more the recipient of the Male Swimmer of the Year honor. The Frenchman was an icon of the Paris Games, successful 4 gold medals in his house nation. While his racing calendar was pared down in 2025, he remained excellent in what he referred to as “more like a transition year.”

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 received gold within the race handily the subsequent day in 1:53.68, added gold within the 400 IM and in addition helped France to a silver medal within the males’s medley relay.