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Marchand in 2023
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(2002-05-17) 17 May 2002 (age 22) Toulouse, France
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke, Individual Medley, Butterfly, Freestyle
College team	Arizona State University
Coach	Bob Bowman, Nicolas Castel
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  France Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 4 0 1 World Championships (LC) 5 1 0 World Junior Championships 0 0 1 European Junior Championships 0 0 2 Total 9 1 4 Olympic Games 2024 Paris 200 m breaststroke 2024 Paris 200 m butterfly 2024 Paris 200 m medley 2024 Paris 400 m medley 2024 Paris 4x100 m medley World Championships (LC) 2022 Budapest 200 m medley 2022 Budapest 400 m medley 2023 Fukuoka 200 m butterfly 2023 Fukuoka 200 m medley 2023 Fukuoka 400 m medley 2022 Budapest 200 m butterfly World Junior Championships 2019 Budapest 400 m medley European Junior Championships 2019 Kazan 200 m breaststroke 2019 Kazan 400 m medley

Léon Marchand (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ maʁʃɑ̃] ; born 17 May 2002) is a French swimmer. He is the world record holder in the long course 400 metres individual medley and short course 200 metres individual medley; the Olympic record holder in the 200 metres butterfly, the 200 metres breaststroke, the 200 metres individual medley and the 400 metres individual medley; and the French record holder in the long course 200 metre individual medley, 200 metre butterfly and 200 metre breaststroke. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals in the 200 m medley, 200 metre breaststroke, 200 metre butterfly, and 400 metre medley. He became the fourth swimmer and third male swimmer in Olympic history to win four individual gold medals at a single Games.

As a member of the Arizona State University swim team, at the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, Marchand won NCAA titles in the 200 yard breaststroke and 200 yard individual medley. He won the gold medal in the 400 metre individual medley and the 200 metre individual medley and the silver medal in the 200 metre butterfly at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships. At the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, he won NCAA titles in the 200 yard breaststroke, 200 yard individual medley, and 400 yard individual medley.

Early life

Marchand was born on 17 May 2002 in Toulouse, France. Marchand is the son of former French medley swimmers Xavier Marchand and Céline Bonnet. His uncle, Christophe Marchand, is also a former freestyle swimmer.

As a child, Léon first took up judo and then rugby, and although he was not pushed into swimming by his parents, he quickly felt at ease in the water with the Dauphins du TOEC club at the age of six.

"The club is an extension of my family. At seven years old, I really started swimming. But I was skinny, I was too cold in the water and I stopped for a year or two. It was only during vacations that I enjoyed being in the water."

— Léon Marchand in Le magazine L'Équipe in 2023.

Trained and coached by Nicolas Castel in the Toulouse club until 2021, Léon Marchand began training with an adjusted schedule around the age of 12 or 13 years. Although he was versatile in freestyle, butterfly, and breaststroke and a good swimmer over various distances, he was not the best national swimmer of his generation in the youth categories, being shorter and less powerful than some of his young competitors. In 2017, as a teenager, he tried the 400m individual medley on his parents' advice and developed a passion for the event.

Alongside his sports career, he earned a scientific baccalaureate with highest honors and pursued computer science studies at Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University.

Encouraged by his parents, both former swimmers who had the same experience in the United States, Léon Marchand settled in Arizona in August 2021. He justified his choice by expressing his desire to be coached by Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps' mentor. He was a junior during 2023–24 at Arizona State University, majoring in computer science.

Career

2019 World Junior Championships

2019 World Junior Championships
	400 m individual medley	4:16.37 (NR)

In August 2019, at the World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Marchand won the bronze medal in the 400 metre individual medley with a French record time of 4:16.37. He also placed seventh with a time of 2:01.53 in the 200 metre individual medley, seventh swimming a 1:58.73 in the final of the 200 metre butterfly, tenth in the 200 metre breaststroke with a 2:15.13, and 15th in the 100 metre breaststroke in a time of 1:03.03.

2020 Summer Olympics

Marchand qualified in his first event for the 2020 Summer Olympics at the 2021 French Elite Swimming Championships in Chartres, making the French Olympic Team in the 400 metre individual medley with a personal best and French record time of 4:09.65. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Marchand placed sixth in the 400 metre individual medley with a 4:11.16, tenth in the 4×100 metre medley relay, 14th in the 200 metre butterfly with a 1:55.68, and 18th in the 200 metre individual medley with a 1:58.30.

2022 NCAA Championships

2022 NCAA Championships
	200 yd individual medley	1:37.69 (CR)
	200 yd breaststroke	1:48.20
	400 yd individual medley	3:34.08
	4×100 yd freestyle	2:46.40

At the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships in March in Atlanta, United States, Marchand won his first individual NCAA title of his freshman year for the Arizona State Sun Devils in the 200 yard individual medley, winning the event and setting new NCAA, NCAA Championships, and US Open records with his time of 1:37.69, which was over four-tenths of a second faster than the old marks of 1:38.13 set by Caeleb Dressel in 2018 (NCAA and US Open records) and 1:38.14 set by Andrew Seliskar in 2019 (NCAA Championships record). It was the first time since 2000 that a man from the Arizona State University swim program won an individual title in swimming at an NCAA Division I men's swimming and diving championships. He won a second NCAA title in the 200 yard breaststroke, finishing 0.56 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Max McHugh with a time of 1:48.20. He placed second in the 400 yard individual medley, with a 3:34.08 to finish behind Hugo González, as well as in the 4×100 yard freestyle relay, where he split a 41.31 for the second leg of the relay to help finish in a final time of 2:46.40.

Seven days after the end of the 2022 NCAA Championships, Marchand set a new French record in the 200 metre individual medley at the 2022 Pro Swim Series at Northside Swim Center in San Antonio, United States, with a time of 1:56.95 and won the silver medal behind Shaine Casas who finished in 1:56.70. One day earlier, he won the 200 metre breaststroke with a time of 2:09.24.

2022 World Aquatics Championships

2022 World Championships
	400 m individual medley	4:04.28 (ER,CR)
	200 m individual medley	1:55.22 (NR)
	200 m butterfly	1:53.37 (NR)

On 18 June, the first day of swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Marchand set a new French record in the 400 metre individual medley in the preliminary heats with a time of 4:09.09, qualifying for the evening final ranking first. He lowered his French record and set a new European record and Championships record in the final with a time of 4:04.28 to win the gold medal. Two days later, he qualified for the semifinals of the 200 metre butterfly with a time of 1:56.38 and tied rank of eleventh in the prelims. For the semifinals, he ranked 0.18 seconds ahead of the next-fastest swimmer, fifth-ranked Luca Urlando of the United States, and qualified for the final the following day with his new French record time of 1:54.32.

The following morning, he qualified for the semifinals of the 200 metre individual medley, swimming a 1:58.70 to tie for eighth-rank heading into the semifinals. For his first race of the evening, he set a new French record in the final of the 200 metre butterfly at 1:53.37 and won the silver medal, finishing behind Kristóf Milák of Hungary and ahead of Tomoru Honda of Japan. In his final race of the day, the semifinals of the 200 metre individual medley, he set a new French record with a time of 1:55.75 and qualified for the final ranking first. In the final of the 200 metre individual medley the following day, he won the gold medal with a French record time of 1:55.22. With his two gold medals, he became the third French swimmer to achieve two gold medals in individual events at a single FINA World Aquatics Championships, after Laure Manaudou and Florent Manaudou. He also became the first male swimmer representing France to win any medal in the 400 metre individual medley at a World Aquatics Championships and the first since 1998 to win a medal the 200 metre individual medley. On 23 June, he split a 1:47.59 for the second leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in the final to help achieve a seventh-place finish in 7:08.78. In the preliminaries of the 4×100 metre medley relay on the eighth day, Marchand helped advance the relay to the final ranking second with a time of 52.09 seconds for the butterfly leg of the relay. He lowered his split to a 51.50 in the final, contributing to a time of 3:32.37 and fifth-place finish

The month after the Championships, Marchand set a new French record in the 200 metre breaststroke with a time of 2:08.76 at the 2022 Spanish Summer Championships in Sabadell, Spain.

2023

Leading up to NCAA and conference championships season in 2023, Marchand set new NCAA and US Open records in the 400 yard individual medley with a time of 3:31.84 in a dual meet against the California Golden Bears on 21 January.

2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships

On 1 March, the first day of the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships at King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, United States, Marchand helped win the conference title in the 4×50 yard medley relay in a Pac-12 Conference and Championships record time of 1:21.69, splitting a 22.98 for the breaststroke leg of the relay. He repeated the trio of conference title, conference record, and Championships record later in the session in the 4×200 yard freestyle relay, where he contributed a lead-off time of 1:30.77 to the final mark of 6:06.30. The times for both relays also set new Arizona State Sun Devils swim program records for the men's events. Following up with a 1:37.81 in the 200 yard individual medley the next day, he won his second-consecutive conference title in the event and lowered his Championships record from the previous year's edition by 1.84 seconds. On day three, he lowered his US Open and NCAA records in the 400 yard individual medley, setting new conference, Championships, and program records with a time of 3:31.57 to win the conference title. He split a 49.73 for the breaststroke leg of the 4×100 yard medley relay later in the session, helping win the conference title with a program record time of 3:01.39.

The fourth of four days, Marchand broke the US Open and NCAA records of 1:47.91 in the 200 yard breaststroke set by Will Licon in 2017, winning the conference title with a personal best time of 1:47.67. For his final event, the 4×100 yard freestyle relay, he led-off with a 41.61 to contribute to a second-place time of 2:46.14. The points allocated for each of his swims contributed to an overall score of 897.5 points for the Arizona State Sun Devils, which earned the men's swim program its first team Pac-12 Conference Championships title.

2023 NCAA Championships

2023 NCAA Championships
	200 yd individual medley	1:36.34 (CR)
	400 yd individual medley	3:28.82 (CR)
	200 yd breaststroke	1:46.91 (CR)
	4×50 yd medley	1:21.07
	4×200 yd freestyle	6:05.08
	4×100 yd medley	2:59.18
	4×100 yd freestyle	2:45.12

Later in the month, at the 2023 NCAA Division I Championships, Marchand helped win the silver medal in the 4×50 yard medley relay in a time of 1:21.07 on the first day of competition, splitting a 22.27 for the breaststroke leg of the relay. Later in the session, he anchored with a 1:28.42 in the 4×200 yard freestyle relay to help win the silver medal in a time of 6:05.08. Both relay times set new men's swim program records for the Arizona State Sun Devils. His split time of 22.27 lowered the former fastest 50 yard breaststroke split time in NCAA history of 22.39 seconds set by Max McHugh two heats earlier. His split time of 1:28.42 for his 200-yard portion of the 4×200 yard freestyle relay ranked as the fastest in NCAA history as well. On the second day, he won the NCAA title in the 200 yard individual medley for the second consecutive year, lowering his NCAA, Championships, and US Open records in the event to a 1:36.34.

In the final of the 400 yard individual medley on the third evening, Marchand won the gold medal with a new NCAA, Championships, and US Open record time of 3:28.82, which was over two full seconds faster than his previous mark of 3:31.57. For his second final of the evening, he contributed the fastest 100 yard breaststroke split time in NCAA history (49.23 seconds) to a bronze medal-win in the 4×100 yard medley relay in an Arizona State Sun Devils men's swim program record time of 2:59.18. Starting the fourth finals session with the 200 yard breaststroke, he won his second repeat title and third title overall of the Championships, lowering his NCAA and US Open records as well as setting a new Championships record with a personal best time of 1:46.91. Finishing the Championships in the 4×100 yard freestyle relay later in the session, he split a 40.55 for the second leg of the relay to contribute to placing third overall with a program record time of 2:45.12. His performances contributed to the first-ever top-five finish for the Arizona State Sun Devils men's swim program at an men's NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, with the team placing second overall with 430 points, just 52 points behind the first-place team (California Golden Bears) and 46 points ahead of the third-place team (Texas Longhorns).

2023 French Championships

Following the conclusion of the collegiate championships, Marchand competed at the 2023 TYR Pro Swim Series in April, winning the 400 metre individual medley with a 4:07.80, the 200 metre butterfly with a 1:55.58, the 200 metre breaststroke with a 2:10.52, and the 200 metre individual medley with a 1:55.69. In June, he won the gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2023 French Elite Swimming Championships on day one in Rennes, finishing in a French record and 2023 World Aquatics Championships qualifying time of 2:06.59 that marked a time drop of 2.17 seconds from his previous personal best and French record time. On the second day, he swam a personal best time of 1:48.70 in the preliminaries of the 200 metre freestyle and qualified ranking seventh for the final, where he won the gold medal with a personal best time of 1:46.44.

For the 200 metre butterfly on day three, Marchand won the gold medal with a time of 1:55.79. He won his fourth national title on the fourth day in the 200 metre individual medley, where he finished first with a time of 1:56.25 in the final. In the 400 metre individual medley on day five, he achieved a World Championships qualifying time of 4:10.57 in the final and won the gold medal and national title.

2024 Olympics

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Marchand finished with the most gold medals among individuals participants, with four, and was tied for the second-most total medals, with five (four gold, one bronze), breaking four Olympic records. He won the men's 400 meter individual medley with a time of 4:02.95 for his first career Olympic medal, making him the tenth French swimmer to become Olympic Champion and the first to do so since the 2012 Summer Olympics. On 31 July he won the 200m butterfly and then the 200m breaststroke, setting Olympic records for both events with a time of 1:51.21 for the 200m butterfly and 2:05.85 for the 200m breaststroke. On 2 August 2024, he won his fourth gold medal in 200 m medley, becoming the first French Olympian to win four gold medals at the same Olympic Games. Marchand has been mentioned frequently as the next Phelps, including by Phelps himself. Marchand was chosen to carry the Olympic flame during the closing ceremony.

2024 World cup

Following the Olympic Games, Marchand competed in the Swimming World Cup, winning gold in all three medley events (100 IM, 200 IM and 400 IM) at all three World Cup legs, held in Shanghai, Incheon and Singapore. He also broke the 200 IM short course world record (1:48.88).

On 30th November, he decided to pull out of the world short course championships in Budapest due to exhaustion after this olympic year.

He is named world aquatics male swimmer of the year on 15th December.

International championships (50 m)

Meet	100 breast	200 breast	200 fly	200 medley	400 medley	4×200 freestyle	4×100 medley
Junior level
EJC 2019				4th
WJC 2019	15th	10th	7th	7th
Senior level
EC 2021		28th	14th		DNS
OG 2021			14th	18th	6th		10th
WC 2022						7th	5th
WC 2023		DNS				4th	4th
OG 2024

International championships (25 m)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course yards (25 yd pool)

Records

Continental and national records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

US Open records

Short course yards (25 yd pool)

Awards and honours

• College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), Swimmer of the Year (Men's): 2022
• Pac-12 Conference, Swimmer of the Year (Men's): 2021–2022
• Pac-12 Conference, Swimmer of the Meet, Pac-12 Conference Men's Swimming and Diving Championships: 2023
• Pac-12 Conference, Freshman of the Year (Men's): 2021–2022
• SwimSwam, Swammy Award, NCAA Swimmer of the Meet (Men's): 2022 NCAA Division I Championships
• SwimSwam, Swammy Award, NCAA Freshman of the Year (Men's): 2022
• World Aquatics, Athlete of the Year (Men's) : 2024

Orders

• Knight of the Legion of Honour: 2024

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External links

• Léon Marchand at World Aquatics
• Léon Marchand at SwimRankings.net
• Léon Marchand at Olympics.com
• Léon Marchand at Olympedia

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• People from Toulouse
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• French male butterfly swimmers
• Arizona State Sun Devils men's swimmers
• French expatriate swimmers in the United States
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
• Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for France
• Olympic bronze medalists for France
• Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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