Laure Manaudou was born in Villeurbanne on October 9, 1986. She is a French Olympic, World as well as European champion swimmer. She had a Dutch mother and a father who was French. In recent times, she possesses the world records for the 400 m freestyle.
It was at the 2004 Athens Olympics that Laure Manaudou landed up with the gold medal in the 400 m freestyle for women. This happened to be the initial gold medal received by France in women's swimming as well as the first one that was achieved by a French man or woman right after the success got by Jean Boiteux in the 400 m men's freestyle event that took place in the year 1952 in Helsinki.
In this particular Olympics, Laure Manaudou received the silver medal in the women's 800 m freestyle. She managed to get the bronze medal at the women's 100 m backstroke and turned up to be the second Frenchwoman to land up with three medals in a single Summer or Winter Olympic Games. In the year 1948, the first position was occupied by Micheline Ostermeyer in London.
In recent times, Laure Manaudou is into a tie up for second on the all-time list of French multiple female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners as accompanied with Perrine Pelen, Anne Briand-Bouthiaux, Micheline Ostermeyer, Anne Briand-Bouthiaux, Marie-Jose Perec, Marielle Goitschel, and many more.
At the 2004 European Swimming Championships that was organized in Madrid, she received three gold medals for excelling in the 400 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, as well as the 4×100 m team medley. Laure Manaudou emerged as the winner in the women's 400 m freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships on July 24, 2005 that was held in Montreal, Canada.
She got the 8th position in the 400m freestyle final of the 2008 Summer Olympics that was hosted in Beijing and landed up on the 7th place in the 100m backstroke final. A cover story was done on Laure Manaudou by the Paris Match weekly magazine in its April 5-11 issue. Manaudou got trained from the coach namely Philippe Lucas in the span from 2001 to 2007.
Laure Manaudou
