2024 French Olympic Trials: Day 4 Finals

2024 FRENCH ELITE CHAMPIONSHIPS

A triple gold medalist from the 2023 Fukuoka World Championships, Leon Marchand, will make not one however two appearances within the pool at this time. Marchand will likely be trying so as to add to his 400 IM as he takes on the 200 fly and the 200 breaststroke. He’s the highest seed within the fly after swimming a clean and managed 1:57.90.

He’ll must drop a number of seconds to get underneath the OQT of 1:55.78, however he ought to have the opportunity to take action with out expending an excessive amount of vitality. Towards the tip of the session, he may also seem within the 200 breaststroke, the place he’s simply .02 behind Antoine Viquerat, and each will likely be chasing 2:09.68

Melanie Henique leads the 50 fly, and is searching for to arrange herself for a robust 50 free in a while, after lacking out on the ultimate of the 100 free.

After main two different ladies underneath the previous nationwide file, Emma Terebo returns to the pool within the ladies’s 200 again.. Terebo already surpassed the qualifying time this morning however will likely be seeking to repeat the feat this night.

Damien Joly is the highest seed within the 800 along with his entry time of seven:47.44 however will face stiff competitors from Pacome Bricout, who was born 13 years after Joly.

Girls’s 50 Fly – Finals

• World Report: 24.43 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2023) 
• World Junior Report: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee, JPN (2017)
• French Report: 25.17 – Melanie Henique (2021)
• 2021 Profitable Time: 25.17 – Melanie Henique
• Olympic Qualifying Time: N/A

Prime 3

1.  Melanie Henique (CN Marseille) – 25.60
2.  Maty Ndoye- Brouard (Dauphins D’Annecy) – 26.51
3.  Albane Cachot (Dauphins Toulouse OEC) – 26.55

One of many best 50 flyers on this planet, the three-time Worlds medalist Melanie Henique, made the ultimate look straightforward. By the midway mark, she had opened up a half a body-length lead on her nearest competitors.  Henique regarded robust into the end and simply gained, touching the wall in 25.60, practically a full second forward of Maty Ndyoe-Brouard.

Henique is a 50s specialist and should wait till the 50 free for a shot to swim for France at her house Olympics.

Males’s 2oo Fly – Finals

• World Report: 1:50.34 – Kristof Milak, HUN (2022) 
• World Junior Report: 1:53.79 – Kristof Milak, HUN (2017) 
• French Report: 1:52.43 – Leon Marchand (2023)
• 2021 Profitable Time: 1:55.40 – Leon Marchand
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:55.78

Prime 3

1. Leon Marchand (Dauphins Toulouse OEC) – 1:54.08
2. Noyan Taylan (Clamart Natation 92) – 1:56.17
3. Sandro Henras-Marouf (Asptt Toulouse) – 2:00.22

The outcomes had been by no means in query. It was only a query of how briskly it could be, as Marchand needed to face the duties of swimming two 200s fly and 200s breast on the identical day. Marchand was out in 54.54 and got here house in 29.31 and 30.23 to hit the wall in 1:54.08. Whereas slower than his nationwide file, the swim seems to be his third-fastest ever after his 1:53.43 in Fukuoka and his 1:53.37 from the 2022 Budapest Worlds and is a brand new course file.

Noyan Taylan dropped over two seconds from his prelims swim however fell .39 wanting the qualifying time.

Girls’s 2oo Again- Finals

• World Report: 2:03.14 – Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2023) 
• World Junior Report: 2:03.35 – Regan Smith, USA (2019) 
• French Report: 2:06.64 – Laura Manaudou (2:06.64)
• 2021 Profitable Time: 2:12.84 – Fantine Lesaffre
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 2:10.39

Prime 3

Males’s 800 Free- Finals

• World Report: 7:32.12 – Zhang Lin, CHN (2009)
• World Junior Report: 7:43.37 – Lorenzo Galossi ITA (2022)
• French Report: 7:42.08 – David Aubry (2019)
• 2021 Profitable Time: 7:54.31 – Logan Fontaine
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 7:51.65

Prime 3

Girls’s 50 Breast – Finals

• World Report: 29.16 – Ruta Meiluyte, LTU (2023) 
• World Junior Report: 29.30 – Benedetta Pilato (2021)
• French Report: 30.82 – Charlotte Bonnet (2023)
• 2021 Profitable Time: 31.80 – Fanny Deberghes
• Olympic Qualifying Time: N/A

Prime 3

Males’s 200 Breast – Finals

• World Report: 2:05.48 Qin Haiyang, CHN (2023) 
• World Junior Report: 2:08.04 – Dong Zhihao, CHN (2023)
• French Report: 2:06.99 – Leon Marchand (2023)
• 2021 Profitable Time: 2:10.21 – Antoine Viquerat
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 2:09.68

Prime 3