2023-07-23 14:43:20
Léon Marchand YUICHI YAMAZAKI / AFP
The French swimmer won the world title in the 400m medley by smashing Michael Phelps’ world record.
Léon Marchand on top of the world. And not only. The Frenchman was not satisfied, this Sunday, with winning a third career world title during the final of the 400m medley in Fukuoka (Japan). He also beat, and even pulverized, the world distance record held by a certain Michael Phelps.
The last who still remained the prerogative of the American legend of the basins, outclassed by more than a second by the new French extraterrestrial (4’02”50 against 4’03”84 for the Baltimore Kid). “It was amazing! This is the most painful race I have experienced. But the best is yet to come“, confided just after his feat the native of Toulouse, only 21 years old.
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