At 23, the Frenchman won for the third time in this distance, largely ahead of his opponents.
The Frenchman Léon Marchand won his third world title in Singapore on Sunday on 400 m four swimming, his seventh planetary coronation in total and the second of the week after his gold medal on the 200 m four swimming.
Seventh time of the series Sunday morning, the 23 -year -old Toulouse has outlined his competitors in the final from the corridor one, winning in 4’04”73, with almost four seconds ahead of the Japanese Tomoyuki Matsushita (4’08”32) and the Russian Ilia Borodin (4’09”16).
A year after his raid at the Paris Olympic Games, where he had won four individual gold medals and one from bronze in relay, Léon Marchand had reduced his program to the world swimming championships in Singapore to participate only in two individual events.
He sprayed the world record for the 200 m four swimming in the semi-finals on Wednesday with a chrono of 1’52 “69, erasing the brand established fourteen years ago by the American Ryan Lochte in 1’54” 00 at the Shanghai Worlds. The next day, he won his third coronation over the distance in 1’53 “56
