2025 World Championships
- July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming)
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Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay — Final
- World Record: 3:26.78 — United States (Murphy, Andrew, Dressel, Apple) (2021)
- World Junior Record: 3:33.19 — Russia (Zurev, Gerasimenko, Minakov, Shchegolev) (2019)
Championship Record: 3:27.20 — United States (Murphy, Fink, Rose, Alexy) (2023)- 2023 World Champion: United States (Murphy, Fink, Rose, Alexy) — 3:27.20
- 2024 Olympic Champion: China (Xu, Qin, Sun, Pan) — 3:27.46
Final:Â
- Neutral Athletes – B (Lifintsev, Prigoda, Minakov, Kornev) – 3:26.93 *Championship Record*
- France (Ndoye-Brouard, Marchand, Grousset, le Goff) – 3:27.96
- USA (Janton, Matheny, Rose, Alexy) – 3:28.62
- Italy – 3:28.72
- Canada – 3:29.75
- Great Britain – 3:30.63
- South Korea – 3:32.32
- Netherlands – 3:32.35
France may have only made it through to tonight’s final in 7th, but they were always going to be a huge threat swimming out of lane 1 and proved that tonight by taking 2nd in a new French Record of 3:27.96, four-tenths of a second under the 3:28.38 they clocked at the Paris Olympics last year.
They were third at halfway as one of three teams under 1:51, before Maxime Grousset dropped the fastest fly split in the field and the joint-2nd fastest all-time to give them a lead of half a second over NAB heading into the final leg. Anchor Yann le Goff could not quite live with NAB’s Egor Kornev and his 46.4 split, which included a 21.44 opening 50, but hung on for silver ahead of the U.S. and Italy.
| New French record (2025) – 3:27.96 | Previous French record (2024) – 3:28.38 | |
| Backstroke | Yohann Ndoye-Brouard – 52.26 | Yohann Ndoye-Brouard – 52.60 |
| Breaststroke | Leon Marchand – 58.44 | Leon Marchand – 58.62 |
| Butterfly | Maxime Grousset – 49.27 | Maxime Grousset – 49.57 |
| Freestyle | Yann le Goff – 47.99 | Florent Manaudou – 47.59 |
Compared to their previous record they were faster on each of the first three legs, despite using the same swimmers. Ndoye-Brouard was slightly off his 51.92 French record which he swam to win bronze in the individual 100 this week, but this was still his second-fastest swim ever and second-fastest in the field behind Thomas Ceccon‘s 51.80.
Leon Marchand, 30 minutes after exiting the pool after winning the 400 IM in 4:04.73, the 5th-fastest time in history, dropped two-tenths to split 58.44. That included a 31.29 second 50, faster than anyone else in the field, and his overall leg was the third-fastest in the field, just 0.02 behind 100 breast silver medalist Nicolo Martinenghi.
Maxime Grousset matched his split from 2023 to go 49.27, having gone out in 22.47 – faster than Yann le Goff did on Freestyle. His was one of only two splits under 50 seconds, and he was half a second quicker than Ilya Kharun‘s 49.83. he owns three of the seven-fastest splits in history now, and three of the 14 sub-50 splits.
Sub-50 Splits, Men’s 100 Fly
- Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021) – 49.03
- Maxime Grousset, FRA (2023) & (2025) – 49.27
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- Caeleb Dressel, USA (2019) – 49.28
- Caeleb Dressel, USA (2019) – 49.33
- Caeleb Dressel, USA (2024) – 49.41
- Maxime Grousset, FRA (2024) – 49.57
- Josh Liendo, CAN (2025) – 49.64
- Michael Phelps, USA (2009) – 49.72
- Caeleb Dressel, USA (2017) – 49.76
- Ilya Kharun, CAN (2025)- 49.83
- Josh Liendo, CAN (2025) – 49.85
- Caeleb Dressel, USA (2017) – 49.92
- Ilya Kharun, CAN (2025) – 49.98
Yann le Goff couldn’t quite match either Manaudou’s 47.59 from last summer or his own 47.55 from the heats of the men’s 4×100 free relay, but the team had built up enough of a buffer to break 3:28 and swim the 12th-fastest performance in history.
They finish the meet with eight medals, which places them 3rd in the medal table.
French Medals, 2025 World Championships
- Gold: Leon Marchand – 200 IM
- Gold: Leon Marchand – 400 IM
- Gold: Maxime Grousset – 50 fly
- Gold: Maxime Grousset – 100 fly
- Silver: Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay
- Bronze: Mixed 4×100 Free Relay
- Bronze: Yohan Ndoye-Brouard – 100 back
- Bronze: Yohan Ndoye-Brouard – 200 back
What happened to their freestyler kid that’s going to Texas? Is he not their ‘hope’
He is just kind of inconsistent atm, which is understandable since he is still only 18. He has swam personal best at French trials for 2 years in a row, but not able to replicate it at Worlds/Olympics or on relays. At least he got through to the semi this time.
I apologize for underestimating Leon Marchand. After this week I may never do that again. That is an absurd breaststroke split for 30 minutes after the 400IM. Clearly his 400IM training really helps here, because he can negatively split his 100M leg. Wow. Definitely has that dawg in him
And honestly, Grousset, wow! What a meet! Nice bounceback from his disappointing Olympics.
Super impressed with Ndoye-Brouard, also. Great improvement from him.
Yikes, if only they had a top freestyler. Wild to see this be their week leg after all those strong French freestylers of the past.
respectfully, how do you underestimate a dude who goes 4:02 in the 4 IM?
I just thought his training this year was interrupted due to vacations and injuries, and he wouldn’t be back into his 2024 form. I also didn’t think he could do a 58 breast split in the relay only 30 minutes after a 400IM, because that is insane. I was way wrong.
I definitely expected him to take down that 200IM WR, just didn’t think it would be this year. And wow, didn’t think he would obliterate it like that. Wow.
FWIW, I also firmly believe he can break the 200M breaststroke WR. Hoping to see that next season. Probably can also take the SC 400IM WR.
I’m looking forward to see him in sc meets.
I think he will take part in world cup in fall and maybe (not sure) in european sc championships in December.
He got to break Seto scm 400 im to complete his IM (LCM and SCM) world records sweep.
and also lowering his 200 Im wr (he really can do it after his lcm wr) and races 200 breast and fly and maybe some freestyle (200, 400) scm.
I think Marchand would go 58.0 if the 400im was before the 1500. Can’t beat those russians though, they all swam a great race.
France needs a freestyler than it’s over
Top 7 Where I rank underwater kicks off of every wall :
What ranking should I do next?
2. Ryan Lochte
3. Tom Shields
Mention Spitz here disqualified you.
1. Ian Crocker
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Is France first on the men relay table ?
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No