13 swimmers from Canet-en-Roussillon are engaged in “France”, from June 15 to 20, 2021, which will issue the last tickets for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Margaux Fabre, in relay, is the best Catalan chance.
The canceled world university championships, no selection of France A ‘, in short, the French summer championships in Chartres are the last chance for the best French swimmers to get their ticket for the Olympic Games in Tokyo (23 July – August 8). To date, there are only five of them to be sure of making it to the land of the rising sun: David Aubry (800m NL) since his bronze medal at the 2019 worlds and four athletes who achieved the minimums during the first phase of selections: Florent Manaudou (50m NL), Yohann Ndoye Brouard (100m and 200m backstroke), Mélanie Hénique (50m freestyle) and Marie Wattel (100m NL and 100m butterfly). Expected in the Odyssée basin in Chartres, Charlotte Bonnet, Mehdy Metella, Clément Mignon, Fantine Lesaffre, Damien Joly and others will in turn try to win their Olympic sesame. 30 swimmers made up the national team at the Rio Games in 2016.
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From these “France 2021”, from June 15 to 20, what can the Canétoise delegation hope for, which yesterday joined Chartres, which owes its fame to its imposing cathedral? “May our swimmers have fun”, sums up coach Cyrille Gualbert consciously, that unless there is a very good surprise (“Pauline Mahieu should improve her record by one second over 100 m”), only Margaux Fabre, with the 4×200 or 4×100 relay, has any chance of going to Tokyo. After a Euro in Budapest where she was excluded from the final because of an average time in the series, the Catalan from Montpellier will be keen to show that she deserves to participate in these second Olympics after those in Rio.
On the Canétois side still, for a place on the podium, there are four who can claim it: Pauline Mahieu, Solène Gallego and Analia Pigrée. The Guyanese who trains in Font-Romeu, has overlooked the Euro. Will she be as inspired in Chartres as she had been this winter in St Raphaël where she won against all expectations the title of champion of France in the 50m backstroke?
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