2023-07-27 14:56:12
Three events, three gold medals. Léon Marchand won his third world title of these swimming world championships in Fukuoka this Thursday, July 27 in the 200m medley. With a European record at stake. But who can stop the French?
Published on: 07/27/2023 – 14:56
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Frenchman Léon Marchand won his third crown at these World Swimming Championships by dominating the 200m medley on Thursday in Fukuoka (Japan). By winning in 1’54”82, he set a new European distance record and became the only French swimmer to hold five world crowns.
After the 400m medley at the start of these Worlds, in which he stole the world record from Michael Phelps, and the 200m butterfly on Wednesday, Marchand adds a fifth gold medal to his list, a year after his first two titles, already in the 200m medley and the 400m medley. He won ahead of two Britons: Duncan Scott, second and relegated by more than a second, and Tom Dean.
Once again, the 21-year-old from Toulouse, a pupil of Bob Bowman, the former mentor of the legend Phelps, made the difference thanks to supersonic flows, where he each time created impressive gaps with his competitors. He took advantage of this final to beat, for the fourth time in his career, the French record for the distance, and also seized the old European record of Hungarian Laszlo Cseh. Marchand did four hundredths better than the 1’55”22 achieved by Cseh during the 2008 world championships in Rome, fifteen years ago.
► Julien Issoulié, national technical director of the French Swimming Federation, was the guest of RFI at midday
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