Leon Marchand crushes 200m IM world record held by Ryan Lochte
Marchand, the Frenchman who won four individual golds at the 2024 Paris Olympics, clocked 1 minutes, 52.69 seconds in Singapore.
That erased the world record of 1:54.00 set by American Ryan Lochte at the 2011 Worlds.
Marchand previously broke Michael Phelps' 400m IM world record at the 2023 Worlds. That was Phelps' last remaining individual world record.
Marchand swims in the 200m IM final at worlds on Thursday. The session starts at 7 a.m. ET, live on Peacock.
LEON MARCHAND JUST OBLITERATED THE 200M IM WORLD RECORD! 😱 #AQUASingapore25
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