Florent Manaudou won the silver medal in the 50 meters at the European Short Course Championships, beaten by the Russian Vladimir Morozov, eight months after his return to swimming and seven months of the Olympics 2020 in Glasgow on Friday. Scotland.
Second to 26 hundredths
Manaudou, 29, was second in 20 sec 66, 26 hundredths behind Morozov (20.40). The Russian sprinter took the best time of the season in the 25-meter pool, previously held by the French swimmer (20.57). Before the Scottish competition, the last appearance in France team of Manaudou, who has just turned 29, went back to August 2016, when he lost in the Olympic final of 50 m in Rio, for a hundredth, in favor of the American Anthony Ervin (21.41 against 21.40).
Gold at the Tokyo Olympics as a goal
The little brother of Laure then left the pools for two and a half years to practice handball, before diving again in April, with the ambition to win back the Olympic gold 50 meters next summer in Tokyo, he who was crowned on the first leg in 2012 in London. Since then, he trains between Antalya, Turkey, under the direction of the British James Gibson, and Marseille, where oversees Julien Jacquier.
French women in gold on 4x50 meters
Earlier in the day, Manaudou swam the best time of the morning series (21.06), then the fourth fastest time of the semifinals (21.17), already dominated by Morozov. In the wake of Manaudou's silver on 50 meters, the relay 4x50 meters ladies tricolor (Gastaldello, Hene, Bousquin and Santamans) parried in gold, tied with the Dutch (1: 35.21). This is the fifth and sixth medals in the Glasgow pool for the France team, after the gold medal of Mélanie Hénique on 50 meters butterfly, the silver ones of Beryl Gastaldello on 100 meters and 50 meters butterfly, and the one in bronze of David Aubry on 1,500 meters. Manaudou, he is still registered on 50 meters butterfly Saturday and 50 meters back Sunday.