third hat-trick in the swimming World Cup for the Toulouse prodigy

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Three titles in three days competition. After the 100 meters and the 200 meters medley, the French swimming prodigy Leon Marchand, licensed to the TOEC Dauphins in Toulouse, won the 400 meter medley during the Short Course Swimming World Cup, Saturday November 2, 2024, in Singapore.

Léon Marchand, the Toulouse king of 4 swims

Léon Marchand therefore won the 400 meter medley on Saturday in Singapore, during the third and last step of the Short Course World Cup.

Winner on the three medley distances (100 m, 200 m and 400 m) during three steps of this short course World Cup (Shanghai, Incheon and Singapore) contested this fall, the Frenchman triumphantly won the world crown. Nine victories… in nine races!

15 hundredths of his French record

To conclude this sequence, the four-time French Olympic champion clocked a time of 3 minutes 58 seconds and 45/100, to 15 hundredths of his French record established a week ago in Incheon (South Korea).

This Saturday, once again wearing the hat of his teammate in the French team Florent Manaudouthe Toulouse resident of 22 ans beat the Italian Alberto Razzetti (4 minutes 0 seconds and 59/100ᵉ) and the American Trenton Julian (4 minutes 4 seconds and 46/100ᵉ).

After two records in two days

Remember that on Friday, Léon Marchand had established a new world record in the 200m medley, erasing almost a second the 12-year-old mark of the American Ryan Lochte, in 1 minute 48 seconds and 88/100ᵉ.

The day before, Thursday, he had beaten the record d’Europe in the 100m medley, in 49.92 seconds, improving by 34/100 the previous continental record which had been held since 2018 by the Russian Vladimir Morozov.
The Frenchman's season will continue with Budapest (Hungary) for the Short Course World Championships (25m), from December 10 to 15.

_{With AFP}

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