The world’s finest male swimmer is headed Down Beneath to expertise a brand new coaching surroundings in 2025.
Leon Marchand introduced his plans to go to Australia whereas chatting with reporters on Thursday from Réunion Island, a French territory within the Indian Ocean the place he’s attending a meet in Saint-Denis.
The 22-year-old stated he’ll head to Australia in January for 2 or three months to coach with Dean Boxall, the pinnacle coach of the Brisbane-based St. Peters Western membership that put a staggering 10 swimmers on the 2024 Australian Olympic staff.
When requested why he made the choice to coach in Australia, Marchand stated:
“To breathe, to see one thing else. I spoke with my coach, he thought it was good to see one other means of coaching. It’s the correct time, I’ve 4 years to arrange for Los Angeles, I’ve time, I’m going to have the ability to surf and luxuriate in Australia.”
Marchand stated as soon as he returns, he’ll rejoin Bob Bowman on the College of Texas.
Coming off his dominant efficiency on the Olympics in Paris, profitable 4 gold medals and including a relay bronze racing on residence soil, Marchand took a while off coaching earlier than getting again within the pool in mid-September.
He started working along with his former coach in Toulouse, France, Nicolas Castel, and did just a few native meets earlier than taking over the World Cup circuit within the fall.
Marchand was a dominant power on the World Cup, sweeping the lads’s 100, 200 and 400 IM in any respect three legs of the collection in Shanghai, Incheon and Singapore. On the closing cease in Singapore, he broke the world document within the males’s 200 IM (1:48.88), reducing Ryan Lochte‘s mark from 2012 (1:49.63).
That resulted in Marchand profitable the lads’s general collection title, strolling away with a $174,000 payday.
On the finish of November, Marchand introduced he was withdrawing from the Brief Course World Championships in Budapest, citing exhaustion from a busy yr out and in of the pool.
Whereas working with Boxall in Brisbane, Marchand will be capable to prepare alongside the likes of Ariarne Titmus, Mollie O’Callaghan, Elijah Winnington and Shayna Jack, to call just a few. Marchand talked about whereas chatting with the media that he plans on placing a bit extra deal with freestyle, which the entire aforementioned names are world-class in.
Together with Titmus, O’Callaghan, Winnington and Jack, Boxall landed Brianna Throssell, Kai Taylor, Jack Cartwright, Jamie Perkins, Jaclyn Barclay and Jenna Forrester on the 2024 Australian Olympic staff.
