Can Léon Marchand repeat astonishing ‘good’ Olympic efficiency at Aquatics World Championships 2025?

Léon Marchand’s World Championships preparation

Returning to competitors on the Florida occasion, two second and one third-place end gave Team Marchand some helpful info to gauge his aggressive type as coaching for the World Championships ratcheted up.

Having initially signed as much as race within the 4 occasions wherein he’s Olympic champion, Marchand dropped the boys’s 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke and can now simply compete within the 200m and 400m particular person medleys on the World Aquatics Championships Arena on the Singapore Sports Hub.

Win these two races, and he’ll turn out to be a three-time world champion in each, having gained the world titles within the two disciplines in 2022 and 2023.

With extra time on his fingers, extra relays might issue, such because the 4x100m medley, the 4x100m blended medley, and possibly even the 4x200m freestyle.

The freestyle occasion may very well be on the playing cards as Bowman is encouraging his pupil to experiment a bit, as they eye LA28.

“The next goal is three years away, so there’s plenty of time to do things,” Bowman advised reporters in Florida. “He needs the challenge of new events. He can’t just do the same events over and over.”

Coach additionally commented on an enormous distinction within the schedule introduced for LA28 wherein, in a change from custom, athletics will characteristic within the first weeks of the Olympic Games, with swimming within the latter levels.

“It’ll be very different for us to swim the second week,” stated Bowman. “It’ll be fun.”

So, again to the Worlds, and with the components of the previous 12 months in thoughts, the parameters across the requirements for the World Championships could have modified however a ‘good’ competitors remains to be attainable.

“As long as he puts in his full effort,” stated Bowman, “I’m fine with that.”