Léon Marchand, already a triple Olympic champion, will compete on Friday in the final of the 200m individual medley, the last individual event on his gargantuan menu at the Paris Olympics. The day after his crazy evening marked by an unprecedented double 200m butterfly-200m breaststroke, after having already won the 400m individual medley on Sunday, the 22-year-old Frenchman set the best time in the semi-finals in 1 min 56 sec 31. I had to do the job tonight, I did it. I will be in the center (of the pool) tomorrow in the final so it’s perfect “, Marchand reacted after the race to the microphone of France Télévisions, while saying he was starting to “feel” the sequence of races “in (his) body and mentally too”. In the semi-final, the Frenchman kept a margin of one and a half seconds on his best time (1:54.82), achieved in 2023 to win the Fukuoka World Championships.
Léon Marchand in the final of the 200m medley, his fourth event of the Olympic Games
