2025 CANADIAN SWIMMING TRIALS
- Saturday, June 7 – Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Victoria, British Columbia
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Women’s 200 Butterfly – Final
- World Record: 2:01.81 – Liu Zige, CHN (2009)
Canadian Record: 2:03.03 – Summer McIntosh, (2024)- 2024 Olympic Trials Champion: Summer McIntosh – 2:04.33
- World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 2:09.21
- Canadian World Juniors Standard: 2:15.07
Summer McIntosh has been virtually unstoppable at Canadian Trials this week, smashing another Canadian record during the finals tonight.
McIntosh threw down a show-stopping time of 2:02.26 in the 200 fly, shattering her own record of 2:03.03 to post the #2 all-time top performance in the event. Her swim knocked .77 off of the previous standard, and she was notably less than half a second off of the world record time (2:01.81), set by Liu Zige back in 2009.
Tonight’s performance saw McIntosh command an early lead, taking out the opening 100 in 58.58 to gain an almost three second lead over the rest of the field. She also turned in faster splits across the board than her previous record-setting race in Paris last summer.
Split Comparison
| Summer McIntosh – 2025 Canadian Trials | Summer McIntosh – 2024 Olympic Games | |
| 50 | 27.28 | 27.38 |
| 100 | 58.58 (31.30) | 58.97 (31.59) |
| 150 | 1:30.19 (31.61) | 1:30.70 (31.73) |
| 200 | 2:02.26 (32.07) | 2:03.03 (32.33) |
McIntosh’s swim made her just the second woman in history to go under 2:03 and marked the fastest time in the world so far this year by over three seconds.
Her new record in the 200 fly brings McIntosh’s record count for the meet thus far up to two Canadian records and two world records, as she continues to dominate the competition.
She’s simply jetting away now. It isn’t just that she’s unquestionably best in world in at least 3 and arguably in 6 events, in 3 events she’s poised to “Ledecky everyone” in the field for the next several years.
She’ll get that WR eventually but thus summer with a 5 event, semis & relay sked, will be tough
I’m trying not to get too excited for Worlds. Having semis skims off so much energy.
Wish it was just prelim/final. Too exhausting at this level, and it really robs swimming fans of superstars’ possible performances, and the stars themselves.
She can get 5 individual golds
So it’s confirmed 4IM is her last swim of the meet right?
According to Devin Heroux last night speaking with Brittney Maclean Summer might still swim the 200 free heat but that would be it. I guess we’ll get some type of confirmation today.
So its interesting that Devin Heroux revealed that Fred Vergnoux was at the Canadian Trials. I guess that should be normal since he is coaching her. But he has a swim group and could of sent an assistant to be there for Summer. He was there himself. He was talking with Devin about Summer’s final touch to the wall and noted her mistake. I am not a swimmer so I don’t understand what happened. But this is interesting by itself.
I also wanted to talk about Summer’s future. I’ve seen people wondering why she doesn’t stay with Fred with the huge massive improvements that she has already done at these Swim Trials. And for myself I would agree with… Read more »
How does her wearing an Arena X-glide in the 2 IM fit into this?
It’s been very clear for a while that Summer has a very savvy team behind her. This includes her parents, one of whom is a C-suite executive of a major firm and the other is a former Olympian.
I don’t think the move to Florida was as based on influential people as you’re making it out to be though. A lot of Canadian kids decamped to Sarasota during the pandemic (Summer, Sienna, Bailey, Madyson).
Her sponsorships have been really smart so far, though. She wore both Speedo and Arena suits so far with Red Bull on them. Testing them out before she makes a decision on who to get a suit deal from? I’ve always assumed they are… Read more »
Yes they do. Summer is the only swimmer (And we are not talking about swimmers who swim open course) But long course or short course to ever get a Red Bull Sponsorship. You would of thought some of the Aussie’s or especially the American’s would of been getting them. Red Bull is massive, they generate hundreds of billions of revenue every year. They have hundreds of athletes they endorse and dozens of teams they promote with their branding. Yet swimming seemed of been on the way side. Marchard I thought would be the poster boy for getting a Red Bull sponsorship, never happened. And he is a Frenchman. Redbull is a European company after all.
The people behind Summer and… Read more »
To me that sounds like very good management.
How do you know all these details?
Summer has had 4 coaches as far as I know: Kevin Thorburn (Toronto), Ben Titley (Toronto), Brent Arckey (Sarasota) and now Fred V (France). Coach Brent showed up personally at all of her National Trials and meets. Her Red Bull endorsements come because they recognize her talent and star power. The coaches’ profiles, in turn, have been raised by having coached her. Other upcoming proteges will have opportunity for similar contracts. Sounds like a win win win for the sport and everyone involved.
Lets do a timeline of events in Summer’s early swimming years and what most likely happened back then.
Age 14: Summer is getting notoriety that she will make the Olympic team.Summer at this time was very raw but had loads of potential. She made it to the Olympics and came 4th in the 400m Freestyle race. That put Summer on the map.
This is where the private sponsor comes in. Usually they tend to be family or friends that help the swimmer. In Summer’s case, it was someone who had money and contacts to help Summer. Pretty sure they gave Summer’s family an offer, if they need anything, just ask.
Age 15: The pandemic hit. Summer couldn’t… Read more »
Honestly, the more I hear about this family, the more I’m weirded out by things (their political views among one of them).
But are we sure that her private sponsor isn’t just … her dad? Like someone mentioned, he has an insane amount of money, pretty sure he could open all these pathways himself?
This is so weird. You aren’t a swimmer, but you know all of these details about Summer McIntosh’s private endorsement deals?
Not this year, but before 2028 Summer will be the first woman to break 2:00. That is just crazy to think about
Another magnificent swim by Summer!♡ What a privilege to watch her race. It is only a matter of time that both the 200free and 800free will be smashed. I’m looking forward to her 400IM. Way to go, Summer!!♡
I meant 200 fly, but yes, quite honestly, 200 free as well. ♡
Regan is going to get so many silvers in this event
nooo Regan.