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Amaury Leveaux
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Amaury Leveaux on winning the silver medal in the 50 m at the 2008 Olympics
Personal information
Full name Amaury Leveaux
Nationality  France
Stroke(s) Freestyle, butterfly
Club Mulhouse ON
Date of birth 2 December 1985 (1985-12-02) (age 24)
Place of birth Belfort, France
Height 2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight 88 kilograms (190 lb)

Amaury Leveaux (born 2 December 1985) is a French swimmer from Belfort.[2] Leveaux is the current World Record Holder in the 100 m freestyle (short course - 44.94 sec.) ) He also holds the 200 m freestyle (long course - 1:46.54) national record and the European record in the 50 m freestyle (long course - 21.38). He was also the world record holder in the 50 m freestyle (short course - 20.48 sec.) and the 50 m butterfly (short course - 22.18 sec).

Career

Up to 2003, Leveaux competed in the junior categories, and won the title of runner up in the 100 m freestyle and the 100 m butterfly in the European Championship in Glasgow in 2003.[3] Having previously dominated the French junior championships, Leveaux took the Silver in the 50 m butterfly event in the French open championship in 2003 held in Saint-Étienne.

In 2004, Leveaux won his first Gold medal in the French Championship in the 200 m freestyle, while also taking the Silver in the 100 m freestyle event. He was later chosen to join the French national swimming squad for the European Championship held in Madrid, when he helped the French relay team win bronzes in the 4×100 and 4×200 m freestyle events.[3] In the individual 200 m freestyle event, Leveaux came fifth, breaking his first French record with 1 min 48.80seconds. Three months later, Leveaux competed in the relay team in the Athens games, in the 4×100 et 4×200 m freestyle events. Although the team failed to qualify for the final in the 4×100 m, the team came in seventh place in the 4×200 m.

Leveaux became the French runner-up in the 100 m freestyle in 2005, and participated in the World Championship in Montréal in July. He qualified for the final, but came in at eighth place. In 2006, he became national champion in the 100 m papillon and European runner up - he came in behind the Ukrainian Andriy Serdinov in Budapest.

At the French national championships, Leveaux managed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 50 m and 200 m freestyle events. Finishing fifth in the 100 m, he also qualified for the 4×100 m freestyle relay team. He set an Olympic record in the 100 m freestyle in the heats of the relay after leading off. France finished second in the final and Leveaux thus won a silver. Later in the week, Leveaux set an Olympic record in his preliminary 50 m freestyle heat with a time of 21.46 seconds. In the final of that event, he swam even faster (21.45 seconds) but finished behind Brazil's César Cielo Filho to take the silver medal.

Records
Preceded by
South Africa Roland Schoeman		 Men's 50 metres freestyle
world record holder (short course)
11 December 2008 – 8 August 2009		 Succeeded by
South Africa Roland Schoeman
Preceded by
France Alain Bernard		 Men's 100 metres freestyle
world record holder (short course)
12 December 2008 –		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Australia Matt Jaukovic		 Men's 50 metres butterfly
world record holder (short course)
6 December 2008 – 14 November 2009		 Succeeded by
Germany Steffen Deibler

External links

References

  1. ^ "12th FINA World Championships". http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Melbourne_2007/results/swimming.php. Retrieved 2007-06-09.  
  2. ^ "50-Fly-M" (PDF). LEN. 31 March 2008. http://www.europeanchampionships.org/Eindhoven2008/docs/50-Fly-M.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-31.  
  3. ^ a b Press kit, 2008 French ChampionshipsPDF (1.32 MB), FFN (French Swimming Federation). Retrieved 11 July 2008.
European Short Course Champions in Men's 50 m Freestyle

 1991: Alexander Popov (RUS)  •  1992: Yuriy Vlasov (UKR)  •  1993: Joakim Holmquist (SWE)  •  1994: Krzysztof Cwalina (POL)  •  1996 – 1999: Mark Foster (GBR)  •  2000 – 2002: Stefan Nystrand (SWE)  •  2003 – 2005: Mark Foster (GBR)  •  2006: Eduardo Lorente (ESP)  •  2007: Stefan Nystrand (SWE)  •  2008: Amaury Leveaux (FRA)  •  2009: Frédérick Bousquet (FRA)
European Short Course Champions in Men's 100 m Freestyle

 1996: Lars Conrad (GER)  •  1998: Lars Frölander (SWE)  •  1999: Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)  •  2000 – 2001: Stefan Nystrand (SWE)  •  2002: Lorenzo Vismara (ITA)  •  2003: Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)  •  2004: Frédérick Bousquet (FRA)  •  2005 – 2006: Filippo Magnini (ITA)  •  2007: Alain Bernard (FRA)  •  2008 – 2009: Amaury Leveaux (FRA)
European Short Course Champions in Men's 50 m Butterfly

 1991: Jan Karlsson (SWE)  •  1992: Mark Foster (GBR)  •  1993: Carlos Sánchez (ESP)  •  1994: Jonas Åkesson (SWE)  •  1996: Mark Foster (GBR)  •  1998: Miloš Milošević (CRO)  •  1999: Lars Frölander (SWE) and Miloš Milošević (CRO)  •  2000: Mark Foster (GBR)  •  2001: Lars Frölander (SWE)  •  2002: Jere Hård (FIN)  •  2003 – 2004: Mark Foster (GBR)  •  2005: Lars Frölander (SWE)  •  2006: Alexei Puninski (CRO)  •  2007: Milorad Čavić (SRB)  •  2008: Amaury Leveaux (FRA)  •  2009: Johannes Dietrich (GER)
European Short Course Champions in Men's 4×50 m Freestyle Relay

 1996: Germany (Conrad, Tröger, Nolte, Smollich)  •  1998: Netherlands (Veens, Kenkhuis, Aartsen, Van den Hoogenband)  •  1999: Sweden (Andersson, Frölander, Nystrand, Carlsson)  •  2000: Sweden (Dahl, Nystrand, Frölander, Andersson)  •  2001: Ukraine (Sylantyev, Volynets, Lisogor, Shyrshov)  •  2002: Netherlands (Kenkhuis, Damen, Holst, Veens)  •  2003: Netherlands (Veens, Kenkhuis, Damen, Van den Hoogenband)  •  2004: France (Maitre, Bernard, Barnier, Bousquet)  •  2005: Netherlands (Veens, Zastrow, Damen, Kenkhuis)  •  2006: Sweden (Nystrand, Stymne, Piehl, Tilly)  •  2007: Sweden (Stymne, Piehl, Nylin, Nystrand)  •  2008: France (Bernard, Gilot, Leveaux, Bousquet)  •  2009: France (Leveaux, Stravius, Maitre, Bousquet)







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