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Leon Marchand To Miss French Championships In June & Seeks Singapore Qualification Elsewhere Four-time Olympic champion Leon Marchand will not compete at the French Championships in Montpellier next month. Marchand won four golds among five medals in front of a home crowd at La Defense Arena last ye...

Jacco Verhaeren Appointed French Performance Director Ahead Of Paris 2024 Jacco Verhaeren, who spent seven years as head coach of Swimming Australia, has been appointed French performance director ahead of a home Olympic Games in Paris 2024. The 52-year-old guided Pieter van den Hoogenband, Inge de ...

Melanie Henique set a national 50 fly record of 25.17 and Mewen Tomac added the 200 backstroke to his Tokyo programme on a day at the French Olympic Trials when technical problems dominated proceedings in Chartres. The bulkhead broke during the morning heats which were then halted with the evening s...

As the coronavirus quarantine continues around the world, many of the world's top swimmers are finding new ways to stay engaged with each other. Recently, the French national swim team posted a video to Instagram highlighting their "Don't Rush Challenge," which is a social media trend that has becom...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. As the countdown to the Olympic Games reaches 32 days, the United States and Australia finalized their teams for Tokyo, while Canada and France also held their selection trials ahead of the June 27 qualification cut-off date. Read the five biggest stories of ...

French Swimming Federation Selects 20-Strong Team For World Short-Course Championships The French Swimming Federation has selected a 20-strong squad for the World Short-Course Championships in Melbourne next month following the national championships in Chartres at which Maxime Grousset, Charlotte B...

Jacco Verhaeren Adds Role with Jumbo-Visma Cycling Team Dutch swim coach Jacco Verhaeren is branching out into a new coaching endeavor by joining Dutch cycling team Jumbo-Visma. Verhaeren will join Jumbo-Visma in an advisory capacity. He will continue in his main role, as the performance director fo...

The French Swimming Federation and the Japanese city of Kanazawa have announced a new partnership heading towards the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The aim of the union is to build a new aquatic facility in Kanazawa by 2017, where multiple French swim teams would be able to use from the opening of the poo...