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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 ...
Guy Delage claims he is the first person to swim solo across the Atlantic Ocean (with the help of a kick board, from the Cape Verde Islands to Barbados). 16 December 1994.. Logging six to eight hours a day behind a 15-foot (4.6 m) raft that carried his communications gear and food supply, Delage ate and slept on the craft when not in the wa
With a career total of 12 Olympics medals, she’s tied with three other Americans—Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin, and Jenny Thompson—for the most ever by a female swimmer. Today she also ...
Duncan Scott is relishing the prospect of spoiling the Olympic party of a French swimmer heralded as the heir to Michael Phelps’ throne.. Leon Marchand is the best male swimmer in the world ...
Bowman said recently of his prized pupil, Léon Marchand, and his father, Xavier Marchand, a two-time French Olympic swimmer. "I thought about his dad. I wonder if they are related and they were ...
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (born 29 November 2000) is a French swimmer. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships , in Budapest , Hungary, [ 4 ] winning the bronze medal.
Seeing the French (in Paris) get crazy for their own French swimmers, got me so excited for L.A. I want to be one of those fans, body-painted red, white and blue and going crazy for any American ...
During her swimming career she won 29 national swimming titles. [2] Her elder sister Annie was also a swimmer and competed at the 1960 Olympics. [3] After retiring from swimming she acted in two films: Le lys de mer (1969) and Violentata sulla sabbia (1971). [4] In 1998, Caron was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. [5]