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France’s Léon Marchand delivered a commanding performance to secure the men’s 400m individual medley title at the World Championships in Singapore on Sunday, marking his second gold of the competition. The 23-year-old swimmer completed the race in 4 minutes 04.73 seconds, finishing well ahead of Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita, who clocked 4:08.32, and Russia’s Ilia Borodin, who took bronze in 4:09.16.
Marchand had already made headlines earlier in the week by breaking the world record in the 200m individual medley and claiming gold. Despite only qualifying seventh fastest for the 400m IM final after a subdued showing in the morning heats, he returned in dominant form when it mattered most. Swimming from lane one, he seized an early lead and steadily extended it throughout the race.
Although his time in Singapore was over two seconds slower than the world record he set in Japan two years ago — a record that previously belonged to swimming legend Michael Phelps — Marchand’s margin of victory demonstrated his continued supremacy in the medley events.
