Léon Marchand is legendary with 4 gold medals in a single Olympiad. His program.
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22:40 – Léon Marchand in history
It has become a pleonasm. Léon Marchand has not finished making history at the end of these 2024 Olympic Games. He has become the first French athlete to be a quadruple Olympic champion in a single edition of the Olympic Games.
#Paris2024 | ???? 4 races. 4 gold medals. 4 Olympic records.
???????????? Léon Marchand becomes the first French quadruple Olympic champion in the same edition: HE MAKES HISTORY! pic.twitter.com/96yppyVmfM
— francetvsport (@francetvsport) August 2, 2024
21:53 – The fourth Marseillaise
Léon Marchand will have sung it more than any other athlete since the start of these 2024 Olympic Games. With these four victories, Léon Marchand is finally fully enjoying it because he has finished his individual marathon of four gold medals.
21:31 – Marchand 9th in the medal standings
If Léon Marchand were a country, he would simply be in 9th place in the medal rankings. This adds a little more to the immense feat achieved by the French swimmer in these 2024 Olympic Games.
20:51 – HE DID IT!
THERE ARE NO MORE WORDS! Léon Marchand wins a fourth title in these 2024 Olympics after his final victory in the 200m medley. OLYMPIC RECORD!!
20:45 – The return of the king!
Léon Marchand is coming forward! He will dive back into the swimming pool at La Défense Arena to try to win a fourth gold medal in these 2024 Olympic Games.
20:18 – The evening session will begin with Léon Marchand
We are slowly arriving at a new great moment for Léon Marchand. The French swimmer will try to win a fourth gold medal in these 2024 Olympics with the final of the 200m individual medley which will begin in about half an hour.
19:41 – A fourth gold in an hour?
H-1 before Léon Marchand enters his garden at the Defense Arena. The Frenchman, a true hero of these 2024 Olympic Games, will try to win a fourth gold medal in these Olympic Games.
17:35 – Léon Marchand is ready
On X, the French swimmer increased the pressure with a tweet that just signals the time of the 200m individual medley final where he will try to get his 4th gold medal of the 2024 Olympics.
Léon Marchand won the gold medal in the 400m medley for his first race at the Paris Olympics. The Frenchman left no chance to his opponents by finishing several seconds ahead at the end of a race that turned into a demonstration, an Olympic record to boot. The swimmer from Toulouse then followed up with a title in the 200m butterfly after an epic duel against Milak before making history by winning a third title in the 200m breaststroke. The legend Marchand did not stop there with a 4th title in the 200m medley. Here is the rest of the program and all the practical information you need to know about his incredible Olympic challenge.
His complete program:
4x100m medley relay: heats on August 3 from 11 a.m., final on August 4 from 7:06 p.m.
Léon Marchand was born on May 17, 2002 in Toulouse and is the son of two former swimmers: Xavier Marchand, silver medalist at the world championships in the 200m medley in 1998, and Céline Bonnet, backstroke swimmer and medley specialist, who notably participated in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. His uncle, Christophe, is also a former Olympic swimmer, now sports director of a swimming pool in Clichy. The young “Léon” has obviously been swimming in pools since he was very young, even if he had a preference for judo and rugby before following in his parents’ footsteps, until being crowned French champion in the 200m butterfly in Rennes in 2019, making him the first French swimmer to achieve such a title at the age of 17. A few months later, he won a bronze medal in the 400m medley and the 200m breaststroke at the 2019 European Junior Championships. At the World Swimming Championships in Budapest in 2022, he left with three medals, including two gold.
Who are Léon Marchand’s parents?
Léon Marchand comes from a line of swimmers. His mother is simply Céline Bonnet, a backstroke specialist and several times French champion. His father, Xavier Marchand, is vice-world champion in the 200m medley in Perth, Australia, in 1998.
How tall is Leon Marchand?
The French swimmer, a specialist in the 400m medley, is a big guy in the world of swimming and measures 1.83m according to the latest data from the FFN.
Why did Leon Marchand go to Arizona?
The day after the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where he took part in his first Olympic final, taking 6th place, Léon Marchand packed his bags to join Arizona State University and a certain Bob Bowman, former mentor of a certain Michael Phelps. Since then, the young prodigy has continued to progress and impress the United States. He made headlines in May 2022 when he broke the NCAA record for the 200-yard medley, previously held by Caeleb Dressel. A performance that was congratulated by… Michael Phelps on Instagram.
Beyond the results in the pool, Léon Marchand has simply evolved since his departure to the United States as he explained to 20 minutes in June 2022. “In bodybuilding, I did more “weightlifting”, more explosiveness. I am much more powerful. Mentally, I have gained autonomy and a lot of experience because I swam a lot in NCAA (the university championship in the United States). I did a lot of races, a lot of relays. In competition, I can now throw myself on the wall to win the race. I swam a lot with Bob (Bowman). I improved in backstroke, crawl. I have more assets than before. I simply swim faster.”
Leon Marchand and Bob Bowman
Based in the USA, Léon Marchand is under the legendary Bob Bowman, former mentor of Michael Phelps, and is learning a lot from the latter. “I was very impressed at first. But he’s really a great coach, with a lot of experience. I know I’ll be ready for all the competitions with him. And he’s really relaxed. He’s had a lot of results, so he’s cooler, we have a lot of fun in training while knowing in which direction we’re going, what we want to do. There’s a connection that’s been created between us.”