He did it ! The young Frenchman Léon Marchand, 20, became world champion in the 400m medley on Saturday on the first day of the World Swimming Championships in Budapest, beating his French record by more than four seconds.
Marchand beat, at the end of a perfect race, in 4 min 4 sec and 28/100, the two Americans Carson Foster, silver medalist, 20 years old like him, and the “veteran” Chase Kalisz, 28 years old, champion Olympic Games in Tokyo last summer.