2025 SWIMMING WORLD CUP – CARMEL
- October 10-12, 2025
- Carmel, Indiana
- SCM (25 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
Three-time Olympic champion Summer McIntosh has been forced to withdraw from the opening leg of the 2025 World Cup series beginning tomorrow in Carmel, Indiana.
McIntosh, 19, announced on social media that she has “unexpectedly fallen ill” and won’t be racing this weekend.
She wrote on her Instagram story:
Hi everyone,
I was so excited to race at the first stop of the World Cup, but disappointed to share I have unexpectedly fallen ill and based on doctor’s advice I will not be racing in Carmel.
Cheers to lots of fast and fierce racing this weekend of an absolute stacked field of the very best swimmers in the world!
xo Summer 🤍
McIntosh was scheduled to race the women’s 400 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200 butterfly, 200 IM and 400 IM at the meet this weekend, coming in as the top seed in the 400 free (3:50.25), 200 fly (1:59.32) and 400 IM (4:15.48) after winning SC world titles and breaking world records in all three races last December.
She was also the silver medalist in the 200 back at the 2024 Short Course Worlds, and was coming in as the #2 seed (1:59.96) behind world champion and world record holder Regan Smith (1:58.04), though reigning Olympic champion and former SC world record holder Kaylee McKeown was also lurking down on the psych sheets in 7th (entered with a LC time).
In the 200 IM, McIntosh was seeded 7th with the 2:05.70 long course world record she produced earlier this year, with SC world champion and world record holder Kate Douglass ranking #1. McIntosh beat Douglass head-to-head for gold at last summer’s Olympics in the 200 IM, and McIntosh claimed the world title this past summer with Douglass not in the field.
The competition was going to be the first glimpse of McIntosh since her move to join Bob Bowman‘s pro group at the University of Texas at the beginning of September.
McIntosh, who was working with French coach Fred Vergnoux through the first nine months of the year, has had a sensational 2025 thus far, breaking long course world records in the 400 free (3:54.18), 200 IM (2:05.70) and 400 IM (4:23.65) at the Canadian Swimming Trials in June. She then won four world titles at the 2025 World Championships in Singapore, claiming the 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM titles while adding a bronze medal in the 800 free.
In the final of the 200 fly, she clocked 2:01.99, the second-fastest swim ever, to narrowly miss out on the super-suited world record of 2:01.81 that she’s been vocal about targeting.
Although McIntosh won’t be in the field this weekend, she will have an opportunity to return later this month as the 2025 World Cup rolls on with stops in Westmont, Ill., (Oct. 17-19) and Toronto (Oct. 23-25).
Scared of Regan and Mckeown
McKeownitis I presume.
Scared of Regan
Feel better soon, Summer 🙂
The prize money is crap
Sometimes top sportspeople are actually ill and they pull out of competitions accordingly.
Sometimes top sportspeople pull out of competitions (usually suddenly and close to), and just say it was due to illness (or sometimes they say injury too).
You see it quite a lot in track and field, pro-cycling too, I think they even have a word for it.
Sad to hear that. Wishing Summer a speedy recovery♡.
Sad news.
Hope she’ll recover soon.
A little off topic, Is WA talking nonsense?
They said Marchand and Foster would swim in Carmel, up to now ok
but also that Marchand would try to reclaim his world cup title and nine victories from last year.
Do Marchand and Foster (they refer to 15 swimming stars the first nine plus four Peaty, Le Clos, Pallister and Walsh and Marchand and Foster, right?
It’s really confusing.
I don’t really think that Marchand (Foster I idon’t know) would do the three stops but I can be wrong.
Nothing official.
It was reported that Leon was only going to Carmel.