DUNKIRK, France, April 23. TWO national records fell during the fourth night of swimming at the French Olympic Trials held in Dunkirk.<\/p>\n
Hugues Duboscq broke his national record in the men's 200 breast semifinal round with a fantastic time of 2:09.72. That moved Duboscq into sixth all time in the event, behind Grigory Falko of Russia (2:09.64) and behind Alexander Dale Oen of Norway (2:09.74). Will he join Brendan Hansen (2:08.50) and Kosuke Kitajima (2:08.84) in the 2:08 club during finals?<\/p>\n
Duboscq's previous national record had been a 2:09.85 from the European Championships last month.<\/p>\n
Another national record fell in the women's 200 IM when Camille Muffat crushed Laure Manaudou's standard of 2:12.41 from 2006. Muffat won the shorter medley event in a time of 2:11.15 to move into the top 10 all time. She sits behind Natalie Coughlin (2:10.88) and ahead of Mireia Belmonte Garcia (2:11.16). Cylia Vabre placed second in 2:13.19, just holding off Sophie De Ronchi (2:13.91) for the second Olympic roster spot.<\/p>\n
Aurore Mongel claimed the women's 200 free finale with a time of 1:57.63, while Ophelie Cyriell Etienne took second in 1:58.18. Muffat (1:58.36) and Alena Popchanka (1:58.46) rounded out the top four.<\/p>\n
Christophe Lebon posted a commanding conquest of the men's 200 fly with a time of 1:56.54 to beat the Olympic standard. Clement Lefert, his closest competition, took second in 2:00.00.<\/p>\n
The final title on the line went to Matthieu Madelaine, Benoit Debast, Lebon and Yoris Grandjean, who clocked a time of 7:25.15 in the men's 800 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
In the men's 100 free semifinal round, Alain Bernard put himself in position to make another run at his world record of 47.50 from last month. Bernard dropped a remarkable time of 48.04 during semis, which broke Bernard's meet record of 48.12 from 2007.<\/p>\n
Fabien Gilot (48.38), Amaury Leveaux (48.38) and Gregory Mallet (49.04) were among the top four qualifiers into finals.<\/p>\n
In the women's 200 fly semis, Mongel kept up her strong day with a top qualifying time of 2:11.17. She'd already gone a meet-record time of 2:09.22 in prelims to erase Sarah Bey's standard time of 2:09.84 from 2006.<\/p>\n
Magalie Rousseau qualified second in 2:11.83, while Petra Granlund of Sweden (2:13.49) and Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands (2:14.23) finished third and fourth in qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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