Laure Manaudou

Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou, 2005
Personal information
Surname:	Laure Manaudou
Nation:	France
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle, back
Birthday:	October 9, 1986
Place of birth:	Villeurbanne
Size:	1.78 m
Medal table

Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne ) is a French swimmer . She was three times world champion and won an Olympic gold, silver and bronze medal in 2004. Her younger brother Florent Manaudou is also a swimmer.

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 the bronze medal in the 100 m back. At the swimming world championships in Montreal in 2005 , she was able to confirm her performance from the games in Athens in the 400 m freestyle final and became world champion after a failed prelim, in which she was only 8th.

On May 12, 2006, she swam a new world record in the 400 m freestyle with a time of 4: 03.03 minutes, breaking the old record set by the American Janet Evans from 1988 by 82 hundredths of a second.

At the European Swimming Championships in Budapest in 2006 , she won the gold medal in the 400 and 800 m freestyle as well as the 100 m back and 200 m medley. In addition, she won three bronze medals and was the most successful athlete together with Britta Steffen . Over 400 m freestyle, she was able to improve her world record from May 2006 again. She swam in the final 4: 02.13 minutes. In the same year she was voted France's Sportswoman of the Year (“ Champion des champions ”) by the sports newspaper L'Équipe for the second time since 2004 . In the same year, the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport voted her World Sportswoman of the Year .

At the 2007 Swimming World Championships in Melbourne , she won the gold medal in the 200 and 400 m freestyle. She set a new world record in the 200 m freestyle with 1: 55.52 minutes. Over 100 m back she won the silver medal with the new European record of 0: 59.87 minutes. She was the first European to stay under a minute on this route. Manaudou was voted World Swimmer of the Year 2007.

In 2008 Manaudou appeared again three times at the Summer Olympics in Beijing , but could not build on their previous successes due to private problems. Over 400 m freestyle and 100 m back she reached the finals again and was eighth and seventh, over 200 m back she was eliminated in the semifinals and was at the end of 17th. On September 18, 2009 it was announced that Manaudou was only 22 years old Career ended. In July 2011, however, she returned to competitive sports. In 2012 she became French champion over 50, 100 and 200 m backseat; over 100 and 200 m, she also qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics .

Private

Manaudou is the daughter of the former French handball player and coach Jean-Luc Manaudou and the Dutch badminton player Olga Schippers. She was in a relationship with the Italian swimmer Luca Marin , which is why she separated from her coach in May 2007 and left France to live and train in Turin . After she was expelled from the Turin Club La Presse in June 2007, she returned to her homeland, Ambérieu-en-Bugey . After the relationship with Marin broke up in 2007, the Frenchwoman fell into a sporty and psychological hole. She then had a relationship with swimmer Frédérick Bousquet , from which a daughter emerged in 2010. Since the beginning of 2015 Manaudou has been in a relationship with the musician Jérémy Frérot , with whom she has had a son since 2017.

In 2009 there were plans for a film about the French swimmer Alfred Nakache , in which Bousquet would play the leading role and Manaudou the wife of Nakache. The project has not yet come about because the von Nakache family refuses.

Records

World records (1)
400 m freestyle (short course)	03: 56.09 min	December 9, 2006	Helsinki
European records (3)
200 m freestyle (short course)	01: 53.48 min	November 17, 2007	Berlin
400 m freestyle (short course)	03: 56.09 min	December 9, 2006	Helsinki
1500 m freestyle (short course)	15: 42.39 min	November 20, 2004	La Roche-sur-Yon
(As of August 16, 2008)

Publications

• with Marion Festraets: Entre les lignes. Michel Lafon, Neuilly-sur-Seine 2014, ISBN 978-2-7499-2288-1 ( autobiography ).

literature

• Laure Manaudou in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Laure Manaudou  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laure Manaudou ends swimming career . In: FOCUS Online . FOCUS. September 18, 2009. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
2. ^ Frédérick Bousquet: L'ex de Laure Manaudou en couple et très amoureux. In: Purepeople. July 22, 2018, accessed August 27, 2018 (French). 
3. ↑ Thomas Montet: Laure Manaudou maman: L'ex-nageuse a accouché! In: Purepeople. July 23, 2017, accessed August 27, 2018 (French). 
4. ↑ Laure Manadou: La Famille Nakache n'en veut pas. Voici, September 28, 2009, accessed April 29, 2014 (French).