Amaury Leveaux

Amaury Leveaux ( born December 2, 1985 in Belfort ) is a French swimmer.

Career

2004 Leveaux was for the first time French champion over the 200m freestyle. That same year, the first major international success came when he with the French 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay each took the bronze medal at the European Championships in Madrid. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he was 100 m freestyle relay Seventh with the 4 ×.

The following year, at the World Swimming Championships in 2005 in Montreal, although he reached the final of the 100m freestyle, was there but not on the eighth addition.

In the European Swimming Championships in Budapest in 2006, he was sensational second over the 100 m butterfly. In addition, he was also able to secure with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay the vice - European champion.

2008 Leveaux was the first time swim crucial to the international field of vision. He was first vice - European champion in the 200 m freestyle at the European Swimming Championships 2008 in Eindhoven. Then, barely a month later, at the French Championships in Dunkirk, he succeeded in sensation when he pressed the 50m freestyle sprint records of Alain Bernard by 12 hundredths 00:21,38 min.

With this performance, he is one of the favorites on the 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In addition, the French 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, with Leveaux and Bernard, the 100 m freestyle world record holder, a candidate for the Olympic gold medal. This underpinned Leveaux, Fabien Gilot, Frederick Bousquet and Alain Bernard at the Open EDF de Natation in Paris when she min a new European record fixed with fabulous 03:12,54, while only 8 hundredths of than the world record of the U.S. relay team 2006 remained.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Leveaux won the silver medal in the 50m freestyle.

Records

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