Leon Marchand’s historic particular person Olympic efficiency got here to an in depth Friday with the Frenchman saving his finest for final.
Marchand, together with his victory within the males’s 200 particular person medley, grew to become solely the fourth swimmer ever to win a minimum of 4 gold medals at a single Video games. He joins the elite firm of Mark Spitz (1972), Kristin Otto (1988) and Michael Phelps, who did it twice (2004, 2008).
He additionally broke Phelps’ Olympic document with a time of 1:54.06, leaving the 28-time medalist with just one remaining Olympic document of his nonetheless within the books. Marchand was simply .06 away from Ryan Lochte’s world document set in 2011.
