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 💪😁”
“I’m loving the training and having some of the best training of my life,” McIntosh said about the program, which she was introduced to through and old teammate.
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.
Canadian Olympic Trials will start on June 7.
this article makes it sound like she’s been in France since she did the altitude training there a while back. Not the case. She was back in North America and just went back there again for a 3 week stint
Isn’t it a little early for Canadian Olympic Trials? Did I miss something?
I hope she swims the 800 this year at trials! That will be so interesting to see a tapered mcintosh vs ledecky 800 free
Summer looks like she has quite a bit more muscle in those pics. I wonder how that will translate to her 200s
I hope she trains 800 free and competes 800 free in Singapore.
I wish to see a great race between two all time greats!
Will she be competing in France/Europe after PSS?
probably not, she’s done 3 meeets before trials and that’s usually her norm
Should have gone with Phillipe Lucas
Not if she wants to enjoy herself
I don’t think McIntosh would’ve mentioned Bowman and Texas if it wasn’t a done deal right? I’d imagine if she wasn’t going to train under him, I assume Bob would’ve said “no she’s not coming” if she wasn’t actually coming, right? If you asked Bob if Titmus is coming to train with him the answer would just be a flat out no.
The messaging around McIntosh and Bowman is very weird.