Olympic Swimming 2024: Men's 400M Individual Medley Medal Winners and Times
Leon Marchand lived up to the lofty expectations set for him in the men's 400-meter individual medley.
The 22-year-old Frenchman blew away the field in front of his home crowd inside Paris La Defense Arena.
Marchand, the two-time world champion in the event, produced the third gold medal of the home Olympics for France.
Results
1. Leon Marchand (France) - 4:02.95 (Olympic record)
2. Tomoyuki Matsushita (Japan) - 4:08.62
3. Carson Foster (United States) - 4:08.66
4. Max Litchfield (Great Britain) - 4:08.85
5. Alberto Razzetti (Italy) - 4:09.38
6. Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand) - 4:10.44
7. Daiya Seto (Japan) - 4:11.78
8. Cedric Buessing (Germany) - 4:17.16
Marchand set the Olympic record and beat his closest competition by five seconds.
Japan's Tomoyuki Matsushita was the best of the rest in second place, a battle that lasted until the final stroke.
Carson Foster brought home the bronze medal for the United States. He got to the wall within 19-hundredths of a second to claim third over Great Britian's Max Litchfield.
Marchand earned the first-ever medal for France in the 400-meter individual medley. He improved by eight seconds compared to the time he set in seventh place at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which took place in 2021.
