{"id":593400,"date":"2024-07-31T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=593400"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:49:19","slug":"paris-olympics-day-5-leon-marchand-caps-golden-double-with-or-in-200-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-5-leon-marchand-caps-golden-double-with-or-in-200-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics, Day 5: Leon Marchand Caps Golden Double with OR in 200 Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paris Olympics, Day 5: Leon Marchand Caps Golden Double with OR in 200 Breast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through four days of the Paris Olympics, the script had played out perfectly for <strong>Leon Marchand.<\/strong> So perfectly that not even two Olympic champions could stand in the Frenchman\u2019s way Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand completed a double for the ages, following up his gold in the men\u2019s 200 butterfly with another in the 200 breaststroke, with an Olympic record of 2:05.85 that is the second fastest performance in history.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Marchand\u2019s third gold medal of this games, to go with the 400 individual medley. He\u2019s just the fourth man to win three individual gold medals at the same Olympics \u2013 joining <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> in both 2008 (five) and 2004 (four), <strong>Mark Spitz<\/strong> (four in 1972) and <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> (three in 2021).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>World record: Qin Haiyang, China, 2:05.48 (2023)<\/li>\n<li>Olympic record: Zac Stubblety-Cook, Australia, 2:06.38 (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Olympic winner: Zac Stubblety-Cook, Australia, 2:06.38<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all three medals, he has ousted the reigning world champion just about head-to-head \u2013 <strong>Chase Kalisz<\/strong> in the 400 IM (Kalisz was eliminated in prelims), <strong>Kristof Milak<\/strong> mano-a-mano and <strong>Zac Stubblety-Cook<\/strong> of Australia, whose Olympic record he snatched.<\/p>\n<p>Stubbblety-Cook hung on to silver in 2:06.79. <strong>Caspar Corbeau<\/strong> snuck in to bronze in 2:07.90.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand approached the double mainly to see if it was possible. The answer was a resounding yes, thanks in large part to his meticulous preparation of the entire night. His win in the 400 IM made things easier, he said. Coach <strong>Bob Bowman<\/strong> had his reservations, even as recently as a week ago, but eventually came over to Marchand&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a lot of pressure after the 400 IM,&#8221; Marchand said. &#8220;It was my specialty. I had the WRs, and it was the first day. I felt a lot of pressure, and it was very liberating during the race. \u2026 The double gold was something I was thinking of for a while, and seeing that my coach was confident also helped me a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was pretty confident,&#8221; Bowman said. &#8220;He&#8217;s like, let&#8217;s just see how the morning goes. Well, that was pretty easy. Let\u2019s see how the semis go. OK, that was pretty good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marchand wrapped up the gold medal in the men\u2019s 200 fly right around 8:40 local time in Paris. He had the medal ceremony at 9:35, then was back in the water at 10:31 to chase the 200 breast.<\/p>\n<p>The 200 breast was everything that the 200 fly was not. In the latter, Milak took the initiative and had what looked like an unassailable edge after 150 meters.<\/p>\n<p>The shoe was on the other foot for Marchand in the 200 breast, his lead more than two seconds at 150. Stubblety-Cook, a legendary closer, clipped half of it, but there was no catching Marchand, to the joy of a partisan crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It didn\u2019t feel like a swim meet,&#8221; Stubblety-Cook said. &#8220;I felt like I was at a rugby game. I was moving the block and normally you can hear it, but you can\u2019t hear anything. You can\u2019t even hear yourself think. It was an awesome atmosphere out there, a crowd I\u2019ll probably never swim in front of that big again. It\u2019s awesome for the sport, and it\u2019s awesome to see that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024\/schedule\/swimming?day=27-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2024-olympic-games-coverage-paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Paris Olympics Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-4-leon-marchand-third-in-200-breast-qin-haiyang-15th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Men&#8217;s 200 breaststroke prelims<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-4-semifinals-leon-marchand-zac-stubblety-cook-to-duel-for-200-breast-crown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Men&#8217;s 200 breaststroke semifinals<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through two rounds of the 200 breaststroke, one wasn\u2019t really sure what to think about the state of the field. Gone were the silver medalist from the Tokyo Olympics (<strong>Arno Kamminga<\/strong>, back injury) and bronze medalist (<strong>Matti Mattsson<\/strong>, eliminated in prelims). The semifinals eliminated world record holder and 2023 world champion <strong>Qin Haiyang<\/strong> and 2023 bronze medalist <strong>Matt<\/strong> <strong>Fallon<\/strong>, who tied for 10th.<\/p>\n<p>So when all was settled, what was left for the final? The second-fastest of China\u2019s swimmers (<strong>Dong<\/strong> <strong>Zhihao<\/strong>, though he\u2019s a 2024 world champ), the second-fastest of the Dutch swimmers (Corbeau, though he got silver in Doha and finaled in the 100), an American in <strong>Josh Matheny<\/strong> who was not the one in the last Olympic final (that as <strong>Nic Fink<\/strong>, who didn\u2019t qualify at Trials) and two Japanese swimmers who don\u2019t include that nation\u2019s top finisher from the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all fitting for an event in which the last nine Olympic medals have gone to nine different countries, such powerhouses as Kazakhstan and Finland represented. France now gets in that mix, making it 10 for the last 12.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Stubblety-Cook was thrilled with silver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was stoked at that result,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To be back at 2:06 is awesome. And Leon\u2019s an ultimate competitor. I was absolutely stoked. I left nothing out there so I can\u2019t complain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corbeau turned for home in third. He got there in 2:07.90, holding off a charge that brought Dong from seventh to fourth. For the Dutchman by way of the University of Texas, it validated a move back home last year to rediscover his love of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, I didn\u2019t know if I wanted to continue,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This was a step that I took to see if I could find more success and also find my love for the sport again, and I think this is a great way to end the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yu Hanaguruma<\/strong> was fourth. Matheny finished seventh.<\/p>\n<p>But the night was Marchand&#8217;s, a night for the ages. No one was going to take that away, not even the shyness of the man at the center of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m really a shy person at first, and I was really the center of attention in those two races,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was trying to get energy from the whole crowd. 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