The world’s finest male swimmer is headed Down Beneath to expertise a brand new coaching atmosphere in 2025.
Leon Marchand introduced his plans to go to Australia whereas chatting with reporters on Thursday from Réunion Island, a French territory within the Indian Ocean the place he’s attending a meet in Saint-Denis.
The 22-year-old mentioned he’ll head to Australia in January for 2 or three months to coach with Dean Boxall, the pinnacle coach of the Brisbane-based St. Peters Western membership that put a staggering 10 swimmers on the 2024 Australian Olympic crew.
When requested why he made the choice to coach in Australia, Marchand mentioned:
“To breathe, to see one thing else. I spoke with my coach, he thought it was good to see one other manner of coaching. It’s the best time, I’ve 4 years to organize for Los Angeles, I’ve time, I’m going to have the ability to surf and revel in Australia.”
Marchand mentioned as soon as he returns, he’ll rejoin Bob Bowman on the College of Texas.
Coming off his dominant efficiency on the Olympics in Paris, successful 4 gold medals and including a relay bronze racing on house soil, Marchand took a while off coaching earlier than getting again within the pool in mid-September.
He started working together with his former coach in Toulouse, France, Nicolas Castel, and did a couple of native meets earlier than taking up the World Cup circuit within the fall.
Marchand was a dominant power on the World Cup, sweeping the lads’s 100, 200 and 400 IM in any respect three legs of the sequence in Shanghai, Incheon and Singapore. On the remaining cease in Singapore, he broke the world document within the males’s 200 IM (1:48.88), decreasing Ryan Lochte‘s mark from 2012 (1:49.63).
That resulted in Marchand successful the lads’s general sequence title, strolling away with a $174,000 payday.
On the finish of November, Marchand introduced he was withdrawing from the Brief Course World Championships in Budapest, citing exhaustion from a busy 12 months out and in of the pool.
Whereas working with Boxall in Brisbane, Marchand will have the ability to practice alongside the likes of Ariarne Titmus, Mollie O’Callaghan, Elijah Winnington and Shayna Jack, to call a couple of. Marchand talked about whereas chatting with the media that he plans on placing slightly extra concentrate on freestyle, which the entire aforementioned names are world-class in.
Together with Titmus, O’Callaghan, Winnington and Jack, Boxall landed Brianna Throssell, Kai Taylor, Jack Cartwright, Jamie Perkins, Jaclyn Barclay and Jenna Forrester on the 2024 Australian Olympic crew.
