Paris 2024: Leon Marchand dominates 200m individual medley to claim fourth gold as Duncan Scott gets silver for GB
Updated 02/08/2024 at 23:04 GMT+1
France’s Leon Marchand beat Great Britain’s Duncan Scott to win the men’s 200m individual medley and claim his fourth gold medal of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 22-year-old set a new Olympic record to obliterate the field, with China's Wang Shun taking bronze. Marchand's latest masterclass sent the euphoric crowd inside the La Defense Arena wild once again.
Paris Golden Moments: Marchand wows Macron and France with fourth gold in pool
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France’s Leon Marchand produced another masterclass to win the men’s 200m individual medley and capture his fourth gold medal of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Fans inside the La Defense Arena were in full voice once again, roaring their hero home to a dominant victory over Great Britain’s Duncan Scott and Chinese defending champion Wang Shun.
The semi-finals were incredibly tight, boosting hopes there would be a battle for gold, but Marchand ripped up that script with an incredible final 100m.
The 22-year-old held a narrow advantage at the halfway mark from Wang and USA’s Carson Foster, but a stunning third 50m breaststroke saw him move a body-length ahead of his nearest challengers.
He has now claimed gold in every event he has entered, adding the 200m medley title to his previous successes in the 200m breaststroke, 200m butterfly and 400m medley.
Scott, 27, came through to claim a second silver in this event, repeating his feat from the Rio 2016 Games.
In claiming his eighth Olympic medal, Scott moves clear of Sir Chris Hoy to become the most successful Scottish Olympian in history.
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But the night - and, it could be argued, the entire Olympics so far - belonged to Marchand.
French president Emmanuel Macron was among those cheering him on in amazement, while the man himself rose out of the water like he had barely broken a sweat, holding out four fingers to mark his four golds.
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