Hugues Duboscq

Hugues Duboscq
Hugues Duboscq (2008)
Personal information
Surname:	Hugues Duboscq
Nation:	France
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Society:	CN Le Havre
Birthday:	August 29, 1981
Place of birth:	Saint-Lô
Size:	1.81 m
Weight:	77 kg
Medal table

Hugues Duboscq (born August 29, 1981 in Saint-Lô ) is a French swimming athlete . The breast specialist was able to win the bronze medal over 100 m breasts at two Olympic Games and once at the world championships, as well as eight medals at European championships in various relay and individual competitions and over twenty French championship titles.

Career

Dubosq was French champion for the first time in 2000 and qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games , where he was eliminated in the semifinals as the last of his run over 100 m breaststroke, with the French 4 × 100 m individual relay he was seventh. At the European Championships in the same year he also missed his first international medal in fourth place, 0.31 seconds behind third in the 100 m breaststroke race, which he was able to win at the next European Championships in Berlin in 2002 . He won bronze in the 100 m breaststroke, and silver in the 4 × 100 m individual relay.

In the Olympic year 2004 he showed himself in impressive form; At the European Championships he won the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke as well as the silver medal with the 4 × 100m medley relay, at the Olympic Games the bronze medal over 100 m breaststroke and was in the finals with the medley relay, where only a fifth place was achieved.

After the bronze medal over 100 m breaststroke at the World Championships in the following year , top performances failed to materialize, but he celebrated a comeback at the 2008 European Swimming Championships ; He won silver over 100 m breasts and bronze over 200 m breasts and thus qualified for his third Olympic Games.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he won bronze in the 100 m and 200 m breasts.

Less than six months later, at the European Short Course Championships in Rijeka , he was able to secure his first title in important international competitions after the resignation of the Ukrainian Oleh Lissohors , the dominator over the chest stretch of recent years. Duboscq won with a European record over the 200 m chest distance. He also came second over the 100 m chest distance.

Dubosq is a sports soldier.

Web links

Commons : Hugues Duboscq  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hugues Duboscq in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Hugues Duboscq in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Athlete biography at the French NOK for the Olympic Games 2008 ( French ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hugues Duboscq in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
3. ↑ Swimming. European Championships 2000 July 4 at Helsinki (fin), Men: 100 m Breaststroke on Sports123.com ( Memento from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )