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100m swimming (M): Maxime Grousset and Rafael Fente Damers validate their ticket for the Paris Games
Maxime Grousset achieved his personal best time in 47”33 in the 100m freestyle final.
(France TV)
The 25-year-old swimmer easily validated his ticket for the Paris Games by winning the 100m freestyle final in front of the surprising Rafael Fente Damers.
A personal best, a title and a ticket to Paris 2024. Maxime Grousset dominated the 100m freestyle final of the French swimming championships in 47″33, Tuesday June 18 in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir). The champion of the world 100m butterfly in Fukuoka (Japan) in 2023 beat his personal best and achieved the minimums for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, like the silver medalist Rafael Fente Damers (48″14), who will join at the start of the school year Léon Marchand and his coach Bob Bowman at the University of Texas. In the women’s race, only Marie Wattel validated the required time, to the nearest hundredth (53″61). In the women’s 1,500m freestyle, Anastasiia Kirpichnikova also retained her title and canceled her ticket for the Games (15’59″95).
On Monday, there were five of them to achieve the minimums: Mewen Tomac (French champion) and Yohann Ndoye-Brouard in the men’s 100m backstroke, Emma Terebo (French champion and new national record) and Beryl Gastaldello in the women’s 100m backstroke, as well as Léon Marchand in the 400m medley.
