Olympic Gold Medalist Florent Manaudou Declares Official Retirement From Swimming

French Olympic champion Florent Manaudou introduced his official retirement from competitive swimming on Thursday throughout the European Championships.

Manaudou has not competed since 2024, after successful two bronze medals in Paris, within the 50 freestyle and because the freestyler on the French males’s 4×100 medley relay in finals. A number of months later, in October, he swam at a 25-meter membership meet, racing the 50 breaststroke and 50 butterfly. That was Manaudou’s final meet.

He instructed France TV, “Two years on from the Paris Olympics, that’s it — I’m announcing my retirement.”

During his profession, Manaudou earned six Olympic medals, together with one gold within the males’s 50 freestyle on the 2012 Olympic Games, stopping the clock in 21.34 to complete two tenths forward of American Cullen Jones.

Four years later in Rio, he received two silver medals within the 50 free and as a member of the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay for France. In the 50, he completed 2nd to Anthony Ervin by only one hundredth, stopping the clock in 21.41.

At the 2020(1) Olympics in Tokyo, he completed 2nd within the 50 freestyle once more, this time to Caeleb Dressel, swimming 21.55.

In Paris, he swam 21.56 to complete third to Cameron McEvoy (21.25) and Ben Proud (21.30).

He additionally has 4 lengthy course World Championship gold medals, 9 SCM World Championship medals (4 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), and 7 lengthy course European Championship medals (six gold, one silver).