Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Léon Marchand (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ maʁʃɑ̃] ⓘ; born 17 May 2002) is a French swimmer.He is the World record holder in the long course 400 metres individual medley and short course 200 metres individual medley; the Olympic record holder in the 200 metres butterfly, the 200 metres breaststroke, the 200 metres individual medley and the 400 metres individual medley; and the French ...
Laure Manaudou (French pronunciation: [lɔʁ manodu]; born 9 October 1986) is a retired [1] French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter.
First Belgian person and man to swim the English Channel. [40] [41] France to England Canada Winnie Leuszler: 1951 13:25 First Canadian to swim the English Channel. [42] [43] England to France Netherlands Jan van Hemsbergen: 1951 14:03 First Dutch person and man to swim the English Channel. [44] [45] France to England United Kingdom Jenny James ...
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...
Analia Pigrée (born 31 July 2001) is a French Guianese swimmer who competes internationally representing France. She is the French record holder in the long course and short course 50 metre backstroke and the short course 100 metre backstroke.
Benoit Lecomte (born 1967) is a French-American long-distance swimmer who swam several sections of the Atlantic Ocean in 1998. Many major media outlets initially wrongly reported that he swam the entire distance across the ocean, but the claim was dismissed and is not officially recognized by Guinness World Records since there is uncertainty about the distance that Lecomte actually covered ...
The French Swimming Federation (French: Fédération française de natation, FFN) is the French water sports association.Founded in February 1919, it grouped the sports swimming clubs, open water swimming, synchronized swimming, diving and French water polo, which organizes the national competitions and the selection of French teams.
During his recuperation in the hospital, he saw a television programme about a female channel-swimmer, who Croizon said inspired him. [2] [4] He began a regimen of swimming, training for over five hours per day with the Maritime Gendarmerie, the French marine police, in the sea near La Rochelle. [3]