And two!

After Léon Marchand's title in the 400m medley, Marie Wattel brought a second medal to the French delegation by finishing second in the 100m butterfly on Sunday at the Budapest Worlds.

“Honestly, I didn't believe it at all!

“, she admitted after her race.

European champion in the distance and sixth in the final of the Tokyo Olympics last summer, Wattel, 25, touched the wall in 56"14, behind the American Torri Huske (55"64) and ahead of the Chinese Zhang Yufei (56"41).

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“When I saw my half (concluded with the second best time), I said to myself that I did not have much margin.

So I was trying not to get carried away,” she said.

“In the end, the last 15-20 meters, I put everything.

I put all my rage of the last years and it pays off!

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"It's his way"

In addition to her medal, she offers herself a new personal best and improves her own French record in the process.

“I made my first French team, I was 16 years old.

I am doing my first medal (world) at 25 years old in individual ”, she breathed between two sobs.

“I think I deserve it and I'm super happy.

(This medal), frankly, it tastes like gold,” adds the native of Lille, remembering the moments of “doubts” and “failures” to get there, like the “big slap” taken at the French championships last April.

“Some start, they are Olympic champions, others need to go through many stages, to learn to know themselves, to know the international level”, analyzed their trainer Julien Jacquier.

“To have been scared, to have been confident, you have to have known everything to do races like she did this evening.

It is his way.

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