Swimming World Championships: No miracle for the 4x200m despite Marchand, Ndoye-Brouard for the second time in bronze

Despite Léon Marchand, there was no miracle for the French 4x200m freestyle relay at the World Swimming Championships in Singapore. The British relay won the final on Friday, August 1st. After a fierce battle with the Chinese, Americans, and Australians, Duncan Scott enabled the British team to win, just as he did at the Paris Olympics last summer, in 6 minutes 59.84 seconds.

Far ahead of the French team, who finished sixth. The young French relay team, composed of Roman Fuchs, Yann Le Goff, Rafael Fente Damers, and four-time Olympic champion Léon Marchand, was unable to keep up with the pace of the top nations (7 minutes, 3 seconds, 69 seconds) and quickly found themselves at the back of the race, alongside the Israelis.

Starting last in the relay with the French team in 7th place, Léon Marchand got off to a fast start before gaining a place to raise hopes of an incredible comeback. But he was unable to maintain his effort in the 200m, having broken the world record for the distance on Wednesday.

For the French team, the smile came from Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, who won the bronze medal in the 200m backstroke, beaten by the new Hungarian world champion Hubert Kós (1 min 53 sec 19) and the South African Pieter Coetze (1 min 53 sec 36). This is the fourth medal for the French delegation. One of these, also a bronze, was already won by Ndoye-Brouard, who took the last step of the podium in the 100m backstroke.