Overview

• Michel Coloma, president of Marchand’s Dauphins du TOEC club in Toulouse, announced on July 21 that the Paris Olympic champion will forgo the 200m butterfly and breaststroke at the Singapore Worlds
• Marchand holds the 400m individual medley world record after eclipsing Michael Phelps’s mark in 2023
• He set an Olympic record of 1 min 54.06 sec in the 200m individual medley at Paris 2024 and finished just 0.06 sec shy of Lochte’s 2011 benchmark
• He is slated to start his campaign on July 30 with the 200m individual medley heats at the World Aquatics Championships, with the final the next day
• His streamlined schedule reflects a broader elite swimming trend of event specialization to maximize peak performance and record-breaking potential