Tag: Laure Manaudou
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Natalie Coughlin breaks her own World Record! | FINA World Championships
Don’t miss out this amazing Women’s 100m Backstroke Final from the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne! Record holder and Olympic Champion Natalie Coughlin was very motivated to win a Gold Medal being the favourite at the starting blocks. With a terrific performance the American star beat all the contenders breaking her own World Record…
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Laure Manaudou retires for second time, is pregnant again
Former Olympic swimming champion Laure Manaudou says she is quitting for good after announcing her retirement for the second time. Read for instance Sports Illustrated
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Another good day for France at Chartres 2012 today
Camille Muffat was definitely the headliner at the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships today, with her world record in the 400 freestyle, France moving away on the medal table with that and Jeremy Stravius’ win in the mens 100 backstroke, plus Laure Manaudou’s win in the women’s 50 backstroke, Italy and Russia also moving…
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Former Olympic champion Manaudou to quit again
French swimmer Laure Manaudou, the Olympic 400m freestyle champion at the 2004 Athens Games, will retire for a second time after next month’s European Championships, the Le Courrier Picard newspaper reported. Via the Bangkok Post
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CC photo #262: Rijeka 2008 Women’s 100 Backstroke Medal Winners
The Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships women’s 100 backstroke medal winners, from left to right Laure Manaudou (France, bronze in 57.16), Sanja Jovanovic (Croatia, gold in a new European record of 56.87) and Kateryna Zubkova (Ukraine, silver in 57.01). See result list here.
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CC photo #191: Laure Manaudou exits the Rijeka 2008 pool
It had this feeling of a final exit, when Laure Manaudou on the last day of the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships didn’t qualify for the women’s 200 backstroke final, placing 3rd in the prelims but also third of the French, her ‘only’ medal the bronze in the 100 backstroke. But no, after retiring…
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TF1 exclusive on Laure Manaudou
In French, but the images tell their story too. Insight into Olympic champion Laure Manaudou’s life in Auburn, Alabama. Via TF1
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France sends 41 swimmers to the Debrecen 2012 Europeans
According to SwimSwam, the French are sending 41 swimmers the the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary in May, including Frédérick Bousquet and Sébastien Rouault who missed out on Olympic participation, and their entire Olympic team. With Germany taking 32 and Great Britain sending only 5, this might the largest team at the Championships. Women: Fanny Babou,…
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Manaudou fears 3rd strike having missed 2 drug tests
France’s former Olympic champion and now again qualified swimmer Laure Manaudou said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that she is living with the threat of suspension after missing two drug tests this season. “That means that if I miss another one I would be suspended,” she was quoted as saying. “In people’s minds,…