Florent Manaudou recorded the best world performance of the year in the 50 meter freestyle during the series of the French swimming championships on Thursday, June 15, 2023 in Rennes. Under the eyes of his sister Laure, Manaudou set the best time in 21 sec 56. “That’s not bad!” he said.
Florent Manaudou just crushed the scores. The three-time Olympic medalist recorded the best world performance of the year in the 50 meter freestyle on Thursday, June 15 in Rennes during the series of the French swimming championships.
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Under the eyes of his sister Laure, Florent Manaudou set the best time in 21 seconds 56, quite far ahead of the second, Maxime Grousset (22 sec 22). The best score of 2023 so far was achieved by the British Benjamin Proud in 21 sec 71.
Manaudou had not swum that fast since the semi-finals of the Olympic Games from Tokyo (21.53). “Not bad, He smiled. I am very happy. I had instructions accurately this morning: do it at 95%, don’t turn your arms too fast, do 32 arm movements, don’t breathe and see what that gives. And it was pretty good.“
He will have to swim in less than 22.07 in the final in the evening to validate his ticket the World Championships in Fukuoka (23 to 30 July).
The 2012 Olympic champion was already very fast in the 100 meter swim Tuesday off with a time of 48 sec 12/100th, a time he had not achieved since 2016. He then skipped the 100 meters final to prefer the 50 meters.
(With AFP)
