Canadian Olympic superstar Summer McIntosh is continuing to train in France with CN d’Antibes under coach Fred Vergnoux.
SwimSwam originally reported that McIntosh attended a three-week altitude training camp in the Pyrenees Mountains with CN d’Antibes.
The club recently shared on social media that McIntosh is still preparing for the 2025 Worlds with the program.
“☀️ Summer in Antibes 🔥🥇
Triple gold medalist at the last Paris Olympics, @summerrmcintosh has been training in Antibes pools for several weeks 🏊 ♀️
With the World Championships in Singapore coming up in July, the Canadian has chosen @fred_vergnoux facilities and coach @TAG‘s wise advice to do some of her preparation 🇨🇦
Soon find an interview with the champion on our networks 🎥
Welcome home, Summer 💪😁”
CN d’Antibes trains at the World Aquatic Training Centre in the south of France. Many national teamers from Latin American, Caribbean, and African countries train with the team under Vergnoux. Before CN d’Antibes, Vergnoux served as the head coach of the Belgian National Team for about a year. He worked for nine years at Spain’s National Training Center prior to that, leading names such as Mireia Belmonte Garcia to Olympic success.
McIntosh, who recently added three gold medals and world records to her resume at 2024 Short Course World Championships, makes the move to France from Florida. There, the 18-year-old trained for the Paris Olympics with the Sarasota Sharks under Brent Arckey.
In February, however, McIntosh announced this season would be her last season with Arckey and that she was in search of a permanent pro training group. The star mentioned Bob Bowman’s Texas group as an option she’s considering.
McIntosh is one of several superstars opting to train in a different part of the world for the post-Olympic year. Instead of returning to his U.S. training base, world record holder Leon Marchand opted to temporarily train in Australia under Dean Boxall to kick off the year. Italian Olympic Champions Thomas Ceccon and Nicolo Martinenghi also left their home country for training stints down under. All of the aforementioned swimmers said that they believed a change of scenery would benefit their long-term motivation and growth.
Isn’t this program pretty distance heavy, unless I’m mistaken? Still holding out hope for 8 free at worlds
I’m surprised she didn’t choose to train with Ben Titley.
Says a lot
Looks like Bob couldn’t get it done
Please go with Bob. For the benefit of the sport
The last time Bob created a supergroup, it imploded. His attention is going to be spread way too thin. I think she’s better off staying with Fred.
I think she should stay with Fred. Mireia Belmonte held 5 world records in short course meters and has Olympic medals of all colors, and in three different events. She won Worlds medals in everything from the 200 fly to the 1500 free. Few coaches in the world would know what to do with Summer’s virtuosity in all strokes, but Fred has seen it before and had time to process what worked and what didn’t. She’d have a ton more racing opportunities in Europe. Plus, the South of France in the summer is pretty damn hard to beat.
The only thing Mireia Belmonte lacked was the ability to stay healthy. Lots of injuries. Incredibly hard worker.
just came from Antibes, she made a smart choice 🙂
Kinda strange that she isn’t with Arckey
There’s a video interview where she talks about her plan for this season was to try some different training stimuli, locations, groups. As she has stated that she is moving on from Sarasota and Arckey at the end of this season, it is actually a smart plan to get used to training away from him.
Here’s the video you are referring to:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DI1RtlYoESe/?hl=en
yeah its pretty smart to very gradually and deliberately change her training environment instead of just abruptly cold turkey joining a new team like so many other promising juniors have done to mixed results
It does make sense, I just took that original video as she’ll be with Arckey until after Worlds and then do the trying out of new pro groups. I misunderstood what was said