Tag: Philippe Lucas
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Matteo Giunta on Coaching Federica Pellegrini, the ISL, and the State of Italian Swimming | Inside With Brett Hawke
Matteo Giunta is an Italian National swim coach (C.C. Aniene) and the Head Coach of the Aqua Centurians. After spending a few years coaching for Andrea Di Nino’s ADN Project, he moved to Verona in 2012 to work under Philippe Lucas. This is where he began coaching Federica Pellegrini. A decade later, the two are…
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Lucas is ‘the biggest mouth in French swimming’, says Donze
Controversial coach Philippe Lucas will return to the France coaching setup for the duration of the European short-course swimming championships in Chartres next month after a five-year absence from the national fold. Read Business Recorder National technical director Christian Donze “He’s (Lucas) the biggest mouth in French swimming but above all a coach with experience…
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CC photo #274: Philippe Lucas at Rijeka 2008
The ‘nomadic’ French coach Philippe Lucas at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships, a year after his split with long-time protegé Laure Manaudou. If I remember correctly, here at Rijeka 2008 coaching Romania’s Camelia Potec. As of September 2008, he is now again coaching Italy’s Federica Pellegrini, along with Amaury Leveaux and others…
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Lucas speaks on silence of Pellegrini, jealousy of Horter
Hot gossip here on SwimNews: “Federica Pellegrini has refused to return calls and has not spoken to French coach Philippe Lucas since the last day of her racing schedule at the world championships in Shanghai in July, the coach claims today.” … (Commercial featuring Lucas and something Pellegrini-similar. Was it an omen?)
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Philippe Lucas, coolest coach out there !
He coached Laure Manaudou, y’know, via Amaury Leveaux Official.