Paris (AFP)
Swimmer Amaury Leveaux, Olympic champion with the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the London 2012 Olympic Games, returns to train in Mulhouse with the Olympics for 2021, his trainer club announced on Saturday on his Facebook page that he had left a year ago for Dijon.
Announcing the composition of the Elite group of the Olympic Mulhouse swimming (MON) for the 2020-2021 season, Lionel Horter, its managing director, said to be "also happy to announce the return of Amaury Leveaux who will try to succeed his bet in realizing what would be a prodigious return, joining his home club, his family. "
Leveaux, 34, returned to swimming pools in late 2018, after a five-year retirement, with the Tokyo Olympics in focus. Even if these Olympics-2020 have been postponed for a year, they still remain its objective.
Last December, at the French Petit Bassin Championships, he finished 3rd in the 50 butterfly and 4th in the 50 freestyle.
The one who still holds the world record for 100 m freestyle in short course (44.94 established on 12/13/2008) had ended his career in December 2013, after having gleaned 4 Olympic medals (including 1 in individual, l 'silver over 50m in 2008) and 4 world medals in the grand basin (including bronze over 50m freestyle in 2009).
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