Almost each of his dives in the pools is marked by a new record. After having erased, on Thursday, October 31 in Singapore, the European record for the 100 m medley held by the Russian Vladimir Morozov, Léon Marchand, the next day, blew up the world record for the 200 m medley held by the American in almost a second. Ryan. Lochte, within the framework of the third stage of the short course World Cup (25 m).
After having conquered the French and European record for this distance in 1m 50s 30 in Shanghai in mid-October, the French swimmer improved his time by more than a second to set a new world record in 1m 48s 88.
In the Singapore pool, Léon Marchand became the first swimmer to go under 1m49 in the 200m medley, surpassing the mark set in 2012 by Ryan Lochte with 1m49.63.
“I gave everything I had to the water”
“It was very exciting for me, I tried to do something that had never been done before, so I gave everything I had in the water. The public pushed me a lot, it reminded me of the Games.”declared the Toulouse resident by the pool.
Three months after a dream Olympic Games, the four-time Olympic champion will finish his Asian tour on Saturday with the 400 meters medley, and the ambition of achieving a third hat-trick in combined, after those achieved in Shanghai and Incheon (South Korea). South). . Léon Marchand’s season will then continue in Budapest, for the short course world championship from December 10 to 15, where he will once again be the star of the pools.
