Florent Manaudou completely missed out on the 50m freestyle semi-final while Léon Marchand did not get a medal in the 4x200m relay.
Florent Manaudou was expected, and the Olympic champion completely missed it this Friday, July 28. In the 50m freestyle semi-final, the four-time long-course world champion finished dead last in his half, taking the 12th time overall. “What happened? I have no idea. I’m surprised. I need to watch the race again but I didn’t feel that bad. I don’t know, I can’t tell you, we’ll see … It wasn’t crazy but it doesn’t matter. I had a very bad swim, we’ll see in the debrief” explained the Frenchman after the race. In the 4x200m freestyle relay, the French team led in particular by Léon Marchand, finished in 4th place, not far from their record. Great Britain, favorite, won ahead of the United States and Australia.
On the other hand, in the semi-finals of the 100m butterfly, the French Maxime Grousset, double bronze medalist in these World Swimming Championships, easily qualified for the final by finishing second in his half behind the American Dare Rose. It also goes for Mélanie Hénique who finished 3rd in her 50m butterfly semi-final while the inexhaustible Sarah Sjoestroem set the best time. In the 200m backstroke final, won by the Hungarian Hubert Kos, the Frenchman Mewen Tomac, 3rd for a large part of the race, finally finished in 4th place.
In the rest of the evening’s results, the women’s 100m freestyle final was won by Australia’s O’Callaghan, who had already won the 200m freestyle and the 4x200m relay. She is ahead of Siobhan Haughey from Hong Kong and the Dutch Marrit Steenbergen. In the 200m backstroke semi-finals, Xuwei Peng won the first semi-final (2’07”40) while Regan Smith won the second (2’07”52). In the 200m breaststroke final, the South African Tatjana Schoenmaker was crowned ahead of the American Kate Douglass while in the men’s category, the Chinese Qin, already crowned in the 50 and 100, was crowned in 2’05 ” 48, smashing the world record.For the record, Léon Marchand’s French record is 2’06″59.
Where are the World Swimming Championships held?
Twenty-two years later, the city of Fukuoka in Japan is hosting the World Long Course Swimming Championships.
What is the program for the World Swimming Championships?
During the two weeks of competition, there will be 6 disciplines and 75 events. The races will start on July 23 and end on July 30.
- Program for Saturday July 29
- 50m butterfly women
- 50m freestyle men
- 100m butterfly men
- 200m backstroke women
- 800m freestyle women
- Mixed relay 4 x 100 m freestyle
What TV broadcast for the world swimming championships?
These World Championships in Japan can be followed live on france.tv and France 4 with Christian Choupin and Camille Lacourt.
Who are the engaged French?
For the World Championships in Japan, the tricolor delegation is important with 32 French people. Among them, there is Florent Manaudou, Charlotte Bonnet or Léon Marchand who is eagerly awaited.
- David Aubry (1500m nl)
- Max Berg (4x100m relay)
- Clement Bidard (4x100m 4n relay)
- Charlotte Bonnet (200m 4n)
- Pacôme Bricout (800m nl)
- Cyrielle Duhamel (400m 4n)
- Logan Fontaine (400m nl)
- Roman Fuchs (4x200m relay)
- Beryl Gastaldello (4x100m relay)
- Maxime Grousset (50m nl, 100m nl, 100m butterfly)
- Guillaume Guth (4x100m relay)
- Mélanie Hénique (50m nl, 50m butterfly)
- Antoine Herlem (200m backstroke)
- Stanislas Huille (4x100m 4n relay)
- Damien Joly (800m, 1500m)
- Anastasiyaz Kirpichnikova (400m, 800m, 1500m)
- Fantine Lesaffre (200m 4n, 400m 4n)
- Pauline Mahieu (100m backstroke)
- Florent Manaudou (50m nl)
- Antoine Marc (200m breaststroke)
- Léon Marchand (200m breaststroke, 200m nl, 200m butterfly, 200m 4n, 400m 4n)
- Mary-Ambre Moluh (50m backstroke)
- Yohann Ndye-Brouard (100m backstroke)
- Lison Nowackzyk (4x100m relay)
- Analia Pigrée (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke)
- Hadrien Salvan (4x200m relay and 4x100m relay)
- Emma Terebo (200m backstroke)
- Enzo Tesic (4x200m relay nl)
- Mewen Tomac (100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Assia Touati (4x100m relay nl)
- Marie Wattel (50m nl, 100m nl, 100m butterfly)
- Amazigh Yebba (4x200m relay nl)
Like Kylian Mbappé in football or Victor Wembanyama in basketball, Léon Marchand continues to be talked about. He belongs to this young generation of precocious French athletes in performance. At 21, he is already world champion in the 200m medley and the 400m medley. In the 200m butterfly, he is world vice-champion. During the 2023 French Championships in Rennes in June 2023, the Toulousain took gold in the 5 events in which he entered.
But the most impressive thing is that he broke a record of Michael Phelps in the 200m medley at the Pro Swim Series last April. A feat now overshadowed by his historic performance at the 2023 World Swimming Championships. On July 23, Léon Marchand won gold in the 400m medley, thus winning his 3rd world title and above all smashing the record held since 2008 in this proof by Michael Phelps. On July 26, he continued with a new title in the 200m butterfly, then in the 200m medley on July 27.