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Léon Marchand Breaks World Record in 200 Individual Medley
The Daily Guardian
|July 31, 2025
Léon Marchand broke the world record in the 200-meter individual medley on Wednesday at the world championships in Singapore, clocking 1 minute, 52.61 seconds to surpass the 1:54.00 set in 2011 by American Ryan Lochte.
The Frenchman set the mark swimming in the semifinals and, in theory, could break it again in Thursday's finals.
Marchand won four Olympic gold medals a year ago in Paris, but he's swimming only the 200 and 400 medley and relays in Singapore. Planning the lighter schedule in what he calls a "transition year" keeps him fresh to chase the world marks.
Marchand didn't just break the 14-year-old record, he shattered it.
"What's crazy is that it's a whole second — and it's still hard to believe," he said. "1:52 on the 200 meters — that's insane."
This story is from the July 31, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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