Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou at a promotional event for the application of Paris for the 2012 Olympics
Laure Manaudou ( born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne ) is a French swimmer. She was three times world champion and won an Olympic gold in 2004 per, silver and bronze medal. Her younger brother Florent Manaudou is also swimmers.
Career
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the gold medal in the 400 m freestyle, the silver medal in the 800 m freestyle and bronze in the 100m backstroke. In the swimming world championships 2005 in Montreal she could confirm their achievements from the games in Athens in the 400 -meter freestyle final and was named after a botched forward, in which she was only 8 become World Champion.
On 12 May 2006 she swam a new world record in the 400m freestyle with a time of 4:03,03 minutes and thus beat the old record of US-American Janet Evans in 1988 by 82 hundredths of a second.
In the European Swimming Championships in Budapest in 2006, she won the gold medal in the 400 and 800m freestyle and 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley. They also took three bronze medals and was together with Britta Steffen, the successful athlete. About 400 m freestyle she could improve her world record in May and again in 2006. She swam in the final of 4:02,13 minutes. In the same year she was on the sports newspaper L' Équipe for the second time after 2004, France's Sportswoman of the Year ( " champion of champions" ) selected.
In the swimming world championships in 2007 in Melbourne, she won the gold medal in the 200 and 400m freestyle. Here they presented more than 200 m freestyle with 1:55,52 minutes a new world record. About 100 m backstroke, she won the silver medal with the new European record of 0:59,87 minutes. So she stayed on this track the first European in under a minute. Manaudou was elected to the World Swimmer of the Year 2007.
2008 Manaudou appeared again three times at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was unable to repeat their former successes due to private problems. About 400 m freestyle and 100 m backstroke, they again reached the finals and became Eighth and Seventh, the 200 m backstroke she was disqualified in the semifinals and was 17 was on September 18, 2009 at the end announced that Manaudou with only 22 years of their career ended. However, in July 2011, she returned to competitive sport. In 2012 she became French champion in the 50, 100 and 200m backstroke; 100 and 200 m, they also qualified for the Olympic Summer Games in 2012.
Private
Manaudou is the daughter of former French handball player and trainer Jean -Luc Manaudou and the Dutch Badminton player Olga Schippers. She was romantically involved with the Italian swimmer Luca Marin, which is why they broke up in May 2007 by her coach and left France to live in Turin and to exercise. After they had been expelled in June 2007 from the Turin club La Presse, she returned to her home Ambérieu -en- Bugey. After the relationship to Marin in 2007 broke apart, the French fell into a sporty and mental hole. She has now been found in the float Frédérick Bousquet a new life partner. The two have a daughter.