2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale
- Wednesday, April 30 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Recaps
Leon Marchand got his first LCM race reps of 2025 in at the Ft Lauderdale Pro Swim last weekend. Marchand didn’t win a single race, having tight battles in both the 200 and 400 IM but ultimately touching 2nd in both. After the meet, Marchand reflected that his goal for the weekend was just to see where he was at with racing and now he has done that.
***First portion of the interview is in English, second portion is in French***
Via @lenchanteur9373 from YouTube comments:
French part
Q:??
A: he didn’t knew where was he at and now knows (same as in english)
Q: was it harder than expected?
A: he didnt feel great during the prep and the races were hard as expected
Q: how did the 400im impact the rest of the meet
A: the 400im was no problem but the second day was tiring as he spent 6h at the pool, he still needs training
Q: do u wanna specifically work on your freestyle
A: no i just train as allways and will work on my underwater kicks
Q: how frustrating… Read more »
First question: so many errands in three days, you weren’t used to it anymore. What do you remember about this competition?
Maybe races rather than errands ?
Errands are more “les courses au supermarché” than “le 100m nage libre est une course difficile”
And “what will you remember” seems more accurate, but you’re pretty on point on the rest !
It’s nice to see another french speaker on swimswam 🙂
Wonderful!!! Merci Leon!!
I wanna coach him
This is why he’s so good. Not even worried about his times. He knows what has to be done and he is confident that he can. And he doesn’t even worry about those bad races
So true. Very impressive mindset.
if anyone is worried about Leon based on this meet, the clearly know nothing about bob, nothing about Marchand, and very little about swimming
Most people were very worried about Ilya Kharun. Then he demolished everyone in the 50/100 fly. Guess Herbie does actually know what he’s doing lol