{"id":120507,"date":"2026-07-07T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/120507\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:34:26","slug":"summer-mcintosh-scratching-out-of-rest-of-canadian-trials-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/120507\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer McIntosh Scratching Out of Rest of Canadian Trials Due To Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t2026 Canadian Swimming Trials<\/p>\n

Just over 40 hours after breaking the oldest female world record on the books,\u00a0Summer McIntosh<\/a> is dropping out of the rest of the Canadian Swimming Trials due to illness.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old posted a statement on her Instagram Story on Tuesday, announcing her withdrawal from the remainder of the meet after beginning to feel ill on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

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McIntosh\u2019s Statement<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so sorry, but on the advice of my doctors and coach, I\u2019ve made the difficult decision to scratch from my remaining events at the 2026 Canadian Trials.<\/p>\n

I started feeling ill yesterday morning, and while I hoped I\u2019d be able to keep racing, this is the right decision.<\/p>\n

There is so much magic in this pool, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful I got to experience it. I\u2019m so disappointed that I can\u2019t continue racing in front of these amazing crowds, but my focus now is on getting healthy so I can be ready to represent Canada at the Pan Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n

Thank you for all the love and support this week. I\u2019m so sorry our time together was cut short, and thank you for cheering me and all of the athletes on. Best of luck to everyone for the rest of the competition.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Summer<\/p>\n

McIntosh opened the competition with a bang on Sunday, putting up a time of 2:01.65 in the final of the women\u2019s 200 fly to lower\u00a0Liu Zige<\/a>\u2018s vaunted super-suited world record of 2:01.81 set in 2009<\/a>. The record had stood as the oldest female record on the books and was one McIntosh had expressed desire to break, especially last year, when she came agonizingly close at the Canadian Trials (2:02.26) and then at the World Championships (2:01.99).<\/p>\n

McIntosh followed up by winning the 400 IM last night in a time of 4:27.35, the eighth-fastest swim of her career and the ninth-fastest performance of all-time, though she said post-race she wasn\u2019t happy with the performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, she was the top qualifier into the final of the women\u2019s 400 free in 4:11.45 before scratching out. Her withdrawal bumps\u00a0Juliet Nicholson<\/a> up in tonight\u2019s \u2018A\u2019 final.<\/p>\n

This past October, McIntosh was forced to withdraw from all three stops of the 2025 World Cup circuit due to illness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having already punched her ticket to the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine by winning the 200 fly and 400 IM, McIntosh\u2019s scratch won\u2019t have any implications on what her event lineup might end up being this summer. At Pan Pacs, countries can enter as many swimmers as they want in an event (provided they have the necessary time standard), but only two per nation can advance to the final.<\/p>\n

Last August, McIntosh announced she would not be competing at this summer\u2019s Commonwealth Games<\/a>, which run just a few weeks before Pan Pacs in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Canadian Swimming Trials Just over 40 hours after breaking the oldest female world record on the books,\u00a0Summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,40838,40863,39031],"class_list":["post-120507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-juliet-nicholson","tag-liu-zige","tag-summer-mcintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}