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200 m medley. Xavier Marchand (born 4 August 1973 in Deauville) is a former medley swimmer from France, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] He won his first international medal (silver) in 1997, at the 1997 European Aquatics Championships in the 200 m individual ...
400 m medley. Léon Marchand ( French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ maʁʃɑ̃]; born 17 May 2002) is a French swimmer and a member of the Arizona State Sun Devils swim team. He is the World record holder in the long course 400 metre individual medley and the French record holder in the long course 200 metre individual medley, 200 metre butterfly and ...
Léon Marchand broke Michael Phelps' record at the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships on Sunday. The 21-year-old French swimmer beat the long-standing record by 1.34 seconds.
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Jul 11, 2023 · Arizona State's Léon Marchand swimming toward Olympic gold in his native France. Scott Bordow. ASU News. 0:00. 0:53. Léon Marchand was 7 years old when he quit swimming. He didn’t quit...
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Jul 24, 2023 · In his post-race press conference, the Toulouse swimmer and son of Xavier Marchand, World-Championship silver medallist in the 200m medley in 1998, Léon gave a succinct assessment of his performance: “I set the right pace at the start. I was able to go fast and finish really fast too.”
Léon Marchand: Early strokes and French debut. Born on May 17, 2002, in Toulouse, Marchand comes from a family deeply rooted in swimming. His father, Xavier Marchand, a former world silver medallist and Olympian, and his mother, Céline Bonnet, a French record-holder, naturally influenced his early passion for the sport.
Swimming. (2022 Getty Images) When it comes to Leon Marchand, there’s no time to get bored. After reaching a first Olympic final at Tokyo 2020 at the age of 19, the Toulouse-born swimmer has moved to the United States to fulfil his dreams. “It went by quickly,” Marchand recalled at a camp in the US Training Center in Colorado in May.
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