2024 Olympic gold medalist Leon Marchand highlights the French swimming roster for the 2024 Short Course World Championships. France will have a total of 13 athletes with five women and eight men.
Marchand is coming off of a historic Olympic Games after winning four individual events, the 200 breast, 200 fly, 200 IM, and 400 IM, doing so in front of the home crowd in Paris. Marchand has not returned to the US for training with Bob Bowman, instead training in his home city of Toulouse, France. He is being coached by Nicolas Castel and is expected to return to Bowman after the meet in Hungary.
Also highlighting the men’s roster are Yohann Ndoye-Brouard and Maxime Grousset who swam on the men’s 4×100 medley relay in Paris alongside Marchand. That relay won bronze. Clement Secchi was also named to the roster and swam in the prelims relay for the French men, also earning him bronze.
The women’s roster is highlighted by Anastasiia Kirpichnikova who was the lone woman to win a medal for France at the Olympics. Kirpichnikova won silver in the 1500 freestyle, swimming a national record in the process.
The 2024 Short Course World Championships are scheduled from December 10-15 in Budapest, Hungary at the Duna Arena. Budapest was notably home to Marchand’s first World Title as he won the 200 and 400 IMs at the LC World Championships in 2022.
He’s gonna lay waste to several World Records
Do we know his events?
Not for the moment. But 100, 200 and 400 IM are almost certain. I bet on the 200 breast too even though it seems to me that the 100 IM final is very close (the battle with Ponti will be tough). I think he’ll swim the 200 free the last day. I’d have liked him to swim the 200 butterfly but I don’t think he will compete in it unfortunately. He didn’t swim the event at the World Cup in Asia.Finally I think he’ll compete in at least one relay, probably the 4x100m medley relay and maybe the 4x50m medley relay but that’s just a guess.
Record books are in shambles
IM’s are looking very shaky. 200 breast is a possibility and the 200 fly definitely seems the hardest to do out of the 4. A 1:46 is just a stupid time.
And 200m free for him?
I guess he’ll swim the event, the last day of Worlds. Even it’s new for him I think he can get on the podium.
Don’t know if it’ll swim 200 fly, perhaos 200 free instead.
200 IM World record for sure. I hope the 400 IM WR but Seto’s record is high.(3:54.81) I imagine he’ll break Russian Borodin’s european record (3:56.47) No way for the 100 IM. Dressel’s WR is otherworldly, but another european record for sure. For the 200 breast, I don’t know. He swam 2:02.99 in Asia. Maybe a 2:01 low. But Prigoda’s WR will be hard to achieve. Finally I don’t think he’ll swim the 200 fly.(unfortunately)
I don’t agree on 200 breast.
For me, one of the easiest to break if he is in good shape.
He was very exhausted when he swam at 2.02.99 (he took the 4th place).
He said it himself.
400 Im, very likely if he’s in good shape too.
And that was just at the 1st World Cup stop. He got much better in all of his events at the latter stops. There’s been a whole bunch of guys in the 2:00-2:01 range for the 200 BR including some who aren’t elite in a 200 LC and he’s the 2nd fastest ever in LC and the fastest in yards. He’s going to blow that time away.
Borodin showed today 3.57.67 (the best season result) in Russian Nationals and he will be in Belgrade. So it can be very good rivalry
No rivalry believe me.
Marchand in good shape Wr or else a bit tired no wr but european record for me.
Belgrade, Budapest no?
On world aquatics website, There is an article about Honda Wr 200 fly.
They said Marchand and Ponti could go against him.
Will he take part in this event, official?
Budapest, yes)
Yes. I saw that Borodin swam 3:57.67 at the Russian Champs. Great time. Let’s not forget that he’s the European record holder. He’s a talented and promising young swimmer. However it doesn’t seem to me that Borodin will be in Budapest. He’s not pat of the neutral list approved by World Aquatics. I deplore it because from a purely swimming perspective, the battle against Marchand and Seto would have been homeric. Marchand would have been clearly challenged. The 400 IM would have been very exciting
No doubt Borodin is a good swimmer.
But Marchand in world cups was far,far away from his best in 400Im.
He said it himself, tired and not motivated to push himself like in 200Im in Singapore.
He just wanted to have fun!
Imagine in world championships with a great motivation (of course in good shape WR), no battle at all for me!
As I understand the process of receiving neutral status takes 3-5 days. So it’s not very difficult to receive the status in the case of everything is ok for World Aquatics.
Ilya didn’t compete in any international events for several years and we don’t know how he will swim in Worlds if he will be there.
Sure Leon will be stronger in Budapest than in World Cup. I only want to say that if there will be Seto and Borodin and smb else who will show good results, it also can improve Leon’s results.