After about six weeks away from the pool post-Olympics, French swimmer Leon Marchand returns to coaching in the present day in France in preparations for a deep dive into the worldwide quick course meters season.
Throughout his break, Marchand hung out travelling – together with occurring stage with DJ David Guetta within the well-known occasion mecca of Ibiza, Spain.
He was additionally honored because the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President Emmanuel Macron, the entry degree of the nation’s highest nationwide order of benefit system.
“I took an extended trip and I attempted to get pleasure from it,” Léon Marchand advised RMC Sport on Saturday. “I additionally took a while alone the place I used to be in a position to replicate and take into consideration what I had performed. So I’ve extra perspective and I’m rather more calm about what I did a month and a half in the past. I noticed. It’s loopy and I’m so pleased to have performed it.” Earlier than concluding: “It’s loads of work behind it and that’s what I’m enthusiastic about essentially the most… And we’re going to should get again to work.”
Marchand is scheduled for 9 periods this week again in his residence metropolis of Toulouse, France the place coach Nicolas Castel will information his coaching for the following a number of months. Castel says that with Marchand’s main coach Bob Bowman specializing in his transition to Director of Swimming at high American collegiate program the College of Texas, it is going to be Castel who will handle Leon’s coaching till the brand new yr. At that time, the French swimmer is anticipated to return to Austin, Texas and his partnership with Bowman.
Till then, Marchand will happen in all three stops of the quick course meters World Cup in October and early November, in Asia, and the World Quick Course Championships in December in Budapest, Hungary. This implies he’ll miss the French Quick Course Championships.
“He desires it to be a little bit of a enjoyable interval,” Castel mentioned to RMC Sport. “He’s not placing any stress on himself for the World Cups. He has no specific expectations. He desires to have enjoyable. He desires to find this format since he has by no means taken half in World Cups. For him, it is going to be a very good train to organize himself this time for the quick course world championships.”
Castel teased Marchand swimming some secondary occasions in these meets as nicely.
Leon Marchand‘s Remaining 2024 Worldwide Competitors Schedule
- Shanghai, China (October 18-20)
- Incheon, South Korea (October 24-26)
- Singapore (October 31-November 2)
- World Quick Course Championships, Budapest, Hungary (December 10-15)
Marchand has proven off how good he’s briefly course yards by way of record-obliterating performances within the NCAA, however he hasn’t raced briefly course meters since December 2019, earlier than arriving in the US and blooming from a proficient age grouper to a worldwide swimming celebrity.
In lots of races, that has left his private bests in an inverted place the place his lengthy course meters greatest instances are quicker than his quick course meters greatest instances – an uncommon state of affairs. That features in mainly all of his main occasions.
Beneath is a desk of his quick course bests in a number of main occasions, plus the French and World Information he would possibly clear.
| SCM Finest | French SCM File | World SCM File | |
| 200 free | 1:51.21 | 1:39.70 (Yannick Agnel, 2012) | 1:39.37 (Paul Biedermann, 2009) |
| 400 free | 4:30.30 | 3:32.25 (Yannick Agnel, 2012) | 3:32.25 (Yannick Agnel, 2012) |
| 200 breast | 2:05.85 | 2:03.33 (Antoine Viquerat, 2022) | 2:00.16 (Kirill Prigoda, 2018) |
| 200 fly | 1:58.49 | 1:50.73 (Franck Esposito, 2002) | 1:46.85 (Tomoru Honda, 2022) |
| 200 IM | 1:58.07 | 1:54.00 (Jeremy Stravius, 2012) | 1:49.63 (Ryan Lochte, 2012) |
| 400 IM | 4:07.55 | 4:06.85 (Jeremy Stravius, 2012) | 3:54.81 (Daiya Seto, 2019) |
