the French prodigy Léon Marchand pulverizes a world record of the legend Phelps – Liberation

2023-07-23 15:24:23

The 21-year-old swimmer won the world title in the 400-meter medley on Sunday July 23, erasing the previous record of American legend Michael Phelps by more than a second.

At 21, he shattered the record of a swimming legend. Frenchman Léon Marchand won the world title in the 400 meter medley this Sunday, July 23, in Fukuoka (Japan), with a time of 4 minutes and 2 seconds. And beats by one second and three tenths the previous individual world record still in force, held by the American Michael Phelps.

Under the eyes of the legend with 23 Olympic titles, present in Japan for the American television channel NBC, Léon Marchand has gradually widened the gap on his main competitor, the American Carson Forster. The latter once again took second place, a year after the World Championships in Budapest.

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“I train every day for that, savored the Toulouse swimmer after the race. There I break my time by two seconds, I make the record so it’s great “Already holder of the French records for the 400m medley, the 200m medley, the 200m butterfly and the 200m breaststroke, Léon Marchand has just obtained his second planetary title.

But no way for him to rest. The French prodigy will try to do the double in the 200 meters medley on Thursday, a feat he had already achieved last year. “The best is yet to come,” said the young student of coach Bob Bowman, the illustrious coach of Michael Phelps.