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Laure Manaudou
	Manaudou in 2005
Personal information
National team	France
Born	9 October 1986 (age 38); Villeurbanne, France
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)
Website	lauremanaudou.fr
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, backstroke
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing France
Olympic Games
World Championships (LC)
European Championships (LC)
European Championships (SC)
Mediterranean Games

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Laure Manaudou (French pronunciation: [lɔʁ manodu]; born 9 October 1986) is a retired^[1] French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. She is the older sister of Florent Manaudou who is also an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.

Career

2004 Olympics

She won the gold medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. It was France's first gold medal ever in women's swimming and the first swimming gold medal won by a French athlete since Jean Boiteux's victory in the 400-meter men's freestyle event at Helsinki in 1952. Manaudou won the silver medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle at the Athens Olympics. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by Ai Shibata of Japan. She also won the bronze medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke, thus becoming only the 2nd Frenchwoman to win three medals in a single Olympic Games, Summer or Winter. The first one was the track and field athlete Micheline Ostermeyer in London in 1948. Manaudou was by far the best swimmer on the French team, but she did not have the team support to win a medal in the women's 4×200 m freestyle relay.^{[citation needed]}

Manaudou is currently tied for third (three medals altogether) on the all-time list of French multiple female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners along with Micheline Ostermeyer, Marielle Goitschel, Pascale Trinquet-Hachin, Perrine Pelen, Anne Briand-Bouthiaux, Marie-José Pérec, Félicia Ballanger and Camille Muffat. The all-time leader is the fencer Laura Flessel-Colovic, who has five Olympic medals.

2004 European Championships

Laure Manaudou won three gold medals at the 2004 European Swimming Championships in Madrid, Spain, in the 100-metre backstroke, 400-metre freestyle, and the 4×100-metre medley relay.

2005 World Championships

On 24 July 2005 at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada, Manaudou won the women's 400-m freestyle. Manaudou was under world record pace for the first half of the race. In the second half of the race, Manaudou was challenged by Shibata, her rival from the Olympics. Pundits were already predicting that Manaudou would eventually eclipse the world-record mark in the 400-m freestyle set by Janet Evans at the 1988 Summer Olympics. This would happen on 12 May 2006, as she broke Evans's world record of 4:03.85 during the final of the French championship in Tours with the time of 4:03.03.

2006 European Championships

On 12 May 2006, Manaudou broke Janet Evans's world record in the women's 400-meter freestyle swim that had stood for 18 years. Manaudou then held the same world record for nearly two years.

On 6 August 2006, on the final day of the 2006 European Swimming Championships in Budapest, she broke her own world record with a time of 4:02.13 in winning the 400-m freestyle title. She also won the 800-m freestyle (in European record time), 200-m individual medley and 100-m backstroke titles. In addition, she obtained the bronze medal in the 200-m freestyle, 4×200-m team freestyle and 4×100-m team medley. With her four titles, she equalled the record of the number of individual titles won in the same European swimming championships held by East Germany's Ute Geweniger (1981) and Hungary's Krisztina Egerszegi (1993).

2007 World Championships

Manaudou broke the 200-m freestyle world record at the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne in winning the final. She also won the 400-m freestyle event. She obtained silver medals in the 100-m backstroke and the 800-m freestyle, and a bronze for 4×200-m freestyle relay. In the 100-m backstroke, she became the second woman in history to swim under a minute in the event. She was leading the race in the 800-m final going into the last lap, but the American Kate Ziegler finally overtook her in the last metres to win by a margin of 28 cm. She was thus prevented from becoming the first female swimmer to win the 200-m, 400-m and 800-m freestyle titles at the same World Championships.

2008 Olympics

In the 2008 Summer Olympics, Manaudou was unable to recapture her form from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. After starting strong and holding the lead at the 200-meter mark, she finished last (eighth) in the 400-m freestyle final with a finishing time of 4:11.26. After the defeat, Manaudou admitted giving up during the race after struggling to keep up.^[2] She then finished seventh in the 100-m backstroke final. In her final hope for a medal, in the 200-m backstroke, she finished last in her semifinal heat and was eliminated.

Retirement and comeback

On 17 September 2009, at 22 years of age, Manaudou announced through the newspaper Le Parisien her retirement from competitive swimming.^[3] She was quoted as saying, "It came to me little by little. I didn’t make it on impulse. It has matured slowly."^[4] In October 2010, she returned to training in the United States with the Auburn University Tigers swim team. She made her return to competition on July 14, 2011, in Tigers colours at a small swimming meet in Athens, Georgia, in the United States, where she set a personal record in the 50-m freestyle event (25.84 s).^[5]

2012 Olympics

Manaudou competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in three events – 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke, and the 4 × 100 m medley relay. She failed to advance from the first round heats in all the three events. However, she was poolside on August 3 as her younger brother Florent won a surprise victory in the men's 50 m freestyle final, and embraced him following his victory.^[6]

Personal life

The weekly magazine Paris Match ran a cover story on Manaudou in its 5–11 April 2007 issue.

Manaudou is now dating Fréro Delavega singer Jérémy Frérot,^[7] with whom she has two sons, and also a daughter from a previous relationship with Frédérick Bousquet.^[8]^[9]

Accomplishments

Between June 2004 and April 2008, Manaudou remained unbeaten in the 400-metre freestyle, winning 23 finals in succession.^[10]

Event		Olympic Games	World Championships		European Championships
Event		2004 in Athens	2005 in Montréal	2007 in Melbourne	2004 in Madrid	2006 in Budapest	2008 in Eindhoven
Freestyle	200 m			1:55.52 WR		1:58.38
	400 m	4:05.34 ER	4:06.44	4:02.61 CR	4:07.90	4:02.13 WR
	800 m	8:24.96		8:18.80 ER		8:19.29 ER
	4 × 200 m			7:55.96 NR		7:56.44 NR	7:52.09 NR
Backstroke	100 m	1:00.88		59.87 ER	1:00.93	1:00.88	1:00.05
Backstroke	200 m						2:07.99 NR
Medley	200 m					2:12.69
Medley	4 × 100 m				4:05.96	4:03.64 NR

WR : World record
ER : European record
NR : National record
CR : Championship record

Career best times

200-m freestyle: 1.55.51
400-m freestyle: 4:02.13
800-m freestyle: 8:18.80
100-m backstroke: 59.50
200-m backstroke: 2:06.64

References

^ "Swimming News: In Love with Life Again, Laure Manaudou Turns a Leaf with New Man & New Suits". SwimVortex.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ "Tearful Manaudou ponders future". BBC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
^ Remise, Christophe (September 18, 2009). "Manaudou tire sa révérence" [Manaudou bows out]. Le Figaro (in French).
^ "French swimmer Manaudou retires". Associated Press. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
^ "Laure Manaudou". official London 2012 Olympics website. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15.
^ "Florent Manaudou joins sister Laure as champions". Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
^ "Laure Manaudou et Jérémy Frérot : Leur réponse aux rumeurs..." [Laure Manaudou and Jérémy Frérot : Their response to the rumours...]. Pure People (in French). 11 February 2016.
^ "Laure Manaudou and Frederick Bousquet Welcome Baby Girl, Named Manon". Swimming World. April 6, 2010. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 2010-04-06 – via Wayback Machine.
^ ""Sortez-moi de là" : Jérémy Frérot séparé de Laure Manaudou et de leurs fils, des retrouvailles très mouvementées!" ["Get me out of here" : Jérémy Frérot separated from Laure Manaudou and from their kids, hectic reunions!]. Pure People (in French). 21 February 2024.
^ "Laure Manaudou no longer a troubled swimmer". Reuters. 15 June 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

External links

Laure Manaudou at Swimrankings.net
"Laure Manaudou", n°27 on Time's list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch"

Records
Preceded by Petra Schneider	Women's 1500 metre freestyle world record holder (short course) 20 November 2004 – 12 October 2007	Succeeded by Kate Ziegler
Preceded by Sachiko Yamada	Women's 800 metre freestyle world record holder (short course) 9 December 2005 – 12 October 2007	Succeeded by Kate Ziegler
Preceded by Lindsay Benko	Women's 400 metre freestyle world record holder (short course) 10 December 2005 – 8 August 2009	Succeeded by Joanne Jackson
Preceded by Janet Evans	Women's 400 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 12 May 2006 – 24 March 2008	Succeeded by Federica Pellegrini
Preceded by Federica Pellegrini	Women's 200 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 28 March 2007 – 11 August 2008	Succeeded by Federica Pellegrini
Awards
Preceded by Tony Parker Ladji Doucouré	French Sportsperson of the Year 2004 2006	Succeeded by Ladji Doucouré Sébastien Loeb & Daniel Elena
Preceded by Otylia Jędrzejczak	European Swimmer of the Year 2006–2007	Succeeded by Rebecca Adlington
Preceded by Leisel Jones	World Swimmer of the Year 2007	Succeeded by Stephanie Rice

[1] "Swimming News: In Love with Life Again, Laure Manaudou Turns a Leaf with New Man & New Suits". SwimVortex.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

[2] "Tearful Manaudou ponders future". BBC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2010.

[3] Remise, Christophe (September 18, 2009). "Manaudou tire sa révérence" [Manaudou bows out]. Le Figaro (in French).

[4] "French swimmer Manaudou retires". Associated Press. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2009.

[5] "Laure Manaudou". official London 2012 Olympics website. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15.

[6] "Florent Manaudou joins sister Laure as champions". Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2022.

[7] "Laure Manaudou et Jérémy Frérot : Leur réponse aux rumeurs..." [Laure Manaudou and Jérémy Frérot : Their response to the rumours...]. Pure People (in French). 11 February 2016.

[8] "Laure Manaudou and Frederick Bousquet Welcome Baby Girl, Named Manon". Swimming World. April 6, 2010. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 2010-04-06 – via Wayback Machine.

[9] ""Sortez-moi de là" : Jérémy Frérot séparé de Laure Manaudou et de leurs fils, des retrouvailles très mouvementées!" ["Get me out of here" : Jérémy Frérot separated from Laure Manaudou and from their kids, hectic reunions!]. Pure People (in French). 21 February 2024.

[10] "Laure Manaudou no longer a troubled swimmer". Reuters. 15 June 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

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-'''Laure Manaudou''' ({{IPA-fr|lɔʁ manodu}}; born 9 October 1986) is a retired<ref>http://www.swimvortex.com/in-love-with-life-again-laure-manaudou-turns-a-leaf-with-new-man-new-suits/</ref> [[France|French]] Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. She is the daughter of a French father and a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] mother, and she is the older sister of [[Florent Manaudou]] who is also an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.
+'''Laure Manaudou''' ({{IPA|fr|lɔʁ manodu}}; born 9 October 1986) is a retired<ref>{{Cite web |title=Swimming News: In Love with Life Again, Laure Manaudou Turns a Leaf with New Man & New Suits |url=http://www.swimvortex.com/in-love-with-life-again-laure-manaudou-turns-a-leaf-with-new-man-new-suits/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203641/http://www.swimvortex.com/in-love-with-life-again-laure-manaudou-turns-a-leaf-with-new-man-new-suits/ |archive-date=12 August 2014 |access-date=17 January 2022 |website=SwimVortex.com}}</ref> French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. She is the older sister of [[Florent Manaudou]] who is also an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.
 ==Career==
 ===2004 Olympics===
-She won the gold medal in the women's 400-meter [[Freestyle swimming|freestyle]] at the [[2004 Athens Olympics]]. It was France's first gold medal ever in women's swimming and the first swimming gold medal won by a French athlete since [[Jean Boiteux]]'s victory in the 400-meter men's freestyle event at [[Helsinki]] in 1952. Manaudou won the silver medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle at the Athens Olympics. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by [[Ai Shibata]] of Japan. She also won the bronze medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke, thus becoming only the 165th Frenchwoman to win three medals in a single [[Olympic Games]], Summer or Winter. The first one was the track and field athlete [[Micheline Ostermeyer]] in London in 1948. Manaudou was by far the best swimmer on the French team, but she did not have the team support to win a medal in the women's 4×200&nbsp;m freestyle relay.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
+She won the gold medal in the women's 400-meter [[Freestyle swimming|freestyle]] at the [[2004 Athens Olympics]]. It was France's first gold medal ever in women's swimming and the first swimming gold medal won by a French athlete since [[Jean Boiteux]]'s victory in the 400-meter men's freestyle event at [[Helsinki]] in 1952. Manaudou won the silver medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle at the Athens Olympics. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by [[Ai Shibata]] of Japan. She also won the bronze medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke, thus becoming only the 2nd Frenchwoman to win three medals in a single [[Olympic Games]], Summer or Winter. The first one was the track and field athlete [[Micheline Ostermeyer]] in London in 1948. Manaudou was by far the best swimmer on the French team, but she did not have the team support to win a medal in the women's 4×200&nbsp;m freestyle relay.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
 Manaudou is currently tied for third (three medals altogether) on the all-time list of French multiple female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners along with [[Micheline Ostermeyer]], [[Marielle Goitschel]], [[Pascale Trinquet-Hachin]], [[Perrine Pelen]], [[Anne Briand-Bouthiaux]], [[Marie-José Pérec]], [[Félicia Ballanger]] and [[Camille Muffat]]. The all-time leader is the fencer [[Laura Flessel-Colovic]], who has five Olympic medals.
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 ===2005 World Championships===
-On 24 July 2005 at the [[2005 World Aquatics Championships]] in [[Montreal|Montreal, Quebec]], Canada, Manaudou won the women's 400-m freestyle. Manaudou was under world record pace for the first half of the race. In the second half of the race, Manaudou was challenged by Shibata, her rival from the Olympics. Pundits were already predicting that Manaudou would eventually eclipse the world-record mark in the 400-m freestyle set by [[Janet Evans]] at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]. This would happen on 12 May 2006, as she broke Evans's world record of 4:03.85 during the final of the French championship in Tours with the time of 4:03.03.
+On 24 July 2005 at the [[2005 World Aquatics Championships]] in [[Montreal]], Canada, Manaudou won the women's 400-m freestyle. Manaudou was under world record pace for the first half of the race. In the second half of the race, Manaudou was challenged by Shibata, her rival from the Olympics. Pundits were already predicting that Manaudou would eventually eclipse the world-record mark in the 400-m freestyle set by [[Janet Evans]] at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]. This would happen on 12 May 2006, as she broke Evans's world record of 4:03.85 during the final of the French championship in Tours with the time of 4:03.03.
 ===2006 European Championships===
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 ===2008 Olympics===
-In the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], Manaudou was unable to recapture her form from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. After starting strong and holding the lead at the 200-meter mark, she finished last (eighth) in the 400-m freestyle final with a finishing time of 4:11.26. After the defeat, Manaudou admitted giving up during the race after struggling to keep up.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/swimming/7555416.stm | work=BBC News | title=Tearful Manaudou ponders future | date=12 August 2008 | accessdate=7 May 2010}}</ref> She then finished seventh in the 100-m backstroke final. In her final hope for a medal, in the 200-m backstroke, she finished last in her semifinal heat and was eliminated.
+In the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], Manaudou was unable to recapture her form from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. After starting strong and holding the lead at the 200-meter mark, she finished last (eighth) in the 400-m freestyle final with a finishing time of 4:11.26. After the defeat, Manaudou admitted giving up during the race after struggling to keep up.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 August 2008 |title=Tearful Manaudou ponders future |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/swimming/7555416.stm |access-date=7 May 2010 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref> She then finished seventh in the 100-m backstroke final. In her final hope for a medal, in the 200-m backstroke, she finished last in her semifinal heat and was eliminated.
 ===Retirement and comeback===
-On 17 September 2009, at 22 years of age, Manaudou announced through the newspaper ''[[Le Parisien]]'' her retirement from competitive swimming.<ref>{{cite news|title= Manaudou tire sa révérence|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/sport/2009/09/18/02001-20090918ARTSPO00266-manaudou-tire-sa-reverence.php|publisher=[[Le Figaro]] | date=September 18, 2009}}</ref> She was quoted as saying, "It came to me little by little. I didn’t make it on impulse. It has matured slowly.”<ref>{{cite news|title=French swimmer Manaudou retires|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news;_ylt=Aq6VKd_f9iJW3oZbX4tXQOvNycIF?slug=ap-manaudou-retires&prov=ap&type=lgns|publisher=[[Associated Press]] | author=|date=17 September 2009|accessdate=18 September 2009}}</ref>
+On 17 September 2009, at 22 years of age, Manaudou announced through the newspaper ''[[Le Parisien]]'' her retirement from competitive swimming.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Remise |first=Christophe |date=September 18, 2009 |title=Manaudou tire sa révérence |trans-title=Manaudou bows out |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/sport/2009/09/18/02001-20090918ARTSPO00266-manaudou-tire-sa-reverence.php |work=[[Le Figaro]] |lang=fr}}</ref> She was quoted as saying, "It came to me little by little. I didn’t make it on impulse. It has matured slowly."<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 September 2009 |title=French swimmer Manaudou retires |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news;_ylt=Aq6VKd_f9iJW3oZbX4tXQOvNycIF?slug=ap-manaudou-retires&prov=ap&type=lgns |access-date=18 September 2009 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
 In October 2010, she returned to training in the United States with the [[Auburn University]] Tigers swim team. She made her return to competition on July 14, 2011, in Tigers colours at a small swimming meet in Athens, Georgia, in the United States, where
-she set a personal record in the 50-m freestyle event (25.84 s).<ref>{{cite news|title=Laure Manaudou|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/manaudou-laure-1121588|publisher=official London 2012 Olympics website|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515164501/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/manaudou-laure-1121588/|archivedate=2013-05-15}}</ref>
+she set a personal record in the 50-m freestyle event (25.84 s).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Laure Manaudou |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/manaudou-laure-1121588 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515164501/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/manaudou-laure-1121588/ |archive-date=2013-05-15 |publisher=official London 2012 Olympics website}}</ref>
 ===2012 Olympics===
-Manaudou competed in the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in three events – 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke, and the 4 × 100 m medley relay.  She failed to advance from the first round heats in all the three events.  However, she was poolside on August 3 as her younger brother [[Florent Manaudou|Florent]] won a surprise victory in the men's 50 m freestyle final, and embraced him following his victory<ref>https://sports.yahoo.com/news/florent-manaudou-joins-sister-laure-230751989--oly.html</ref>
+Manaudou competed in the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in three events – 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke, and the 4 × 100 m medley relay.  She failed to advance from the first round heats in all the three events.  However, she was poolside on August 3 as her younger brother [[Florent Manaudou|Florent]] won a surprise victory in the men's 50 m freestyle final, and embraced him following his victory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Florent Manaudou joins sister Laure as champions |url=http://sports.yahoo.com/news/florent-manaudou-joins-sister-laure-230751989--oly.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209225225/http://sports.yahoo.com/news/florent-manaudou-joins-sister-laure-230751989--oly.html |archive-date=9 February 2013 |access-date=2 February 2022 |website=Yahoo! Sports}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
 The weekly magazine ''[[Paris Match]]'' ran a cover story on Manaudou in its 5–11 April 2007 issue.
+Manaudou is now dating [[Fréro Delavega]] singer Jérémy Frérot,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laure Manaudou et Jérémy Frérot : Leur réponse aux rumeurs... |trans-title=Laure Manaudou and Jérémy Frérot : Their response to the rumours... |url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/laure-manaudou-et-jeremy-frerot-leur-reponse-aux-rumeurs_a172363/1 |website=[[Pure People]] |date=11 February 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> with whom she has two sons, and also a daughter from a previous relationship with [[Frédérick Bousquet]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 6, 2010 |title=Laure Manaudou and Frederick Bousquet Welcome Baby Girl, Named Manon |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/23947.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825215404/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/23947.asp |archive-date=25 August 2012 |access-date=2010-04-06 |publisher=[[Swimming World]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title="Sortez-moi de là" : Jérémy Frérot séparé de Laure Manaudou et de leurs fils, des retrouvailles très mouvementées! |trans-title="Get me out of here" : Jérémy Frérot separated from Laure Manaudou and from their kids, hectic reunions! |url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/jeremy-frerot-separe-de-laure-manaudou-et-de-leurs-fils-lou-et-sacha-leurs-retrouvailles-mouvementees_a520037/1 |website=[[Pure People]] |date=21 February 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
-Manaudou is now dating [[Fréro Delavega]] singer Jérémy Frérot<ref>http://www.purepeople.com/article/laure-manaudou-et-jeremy-frerot-leur-reponse-aux-rumeurs_a172363/1</ref>, with whom she has a son Lou, born on July 18, 2017
 ==Accomplishments==
-Between June 2004 and April 2008, Manaudou remained unbeaten in the 400-metre freestyle, winning 23 finals in succession.<ref>{{cite news|title=Laure Manaudou no longer a troubled swimmer|url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/swimming/laure-manaudou-no-longer-a-troubled-swimmer.html|publisher=Reuters|date=15 June 2012|accessdate=2 July 2012}}</ref>
+Between June 2004 and April 2008, Manaudou remained unbeaten in the 400-metre freestyle, winning 23 finals in succession.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 June 2012 |title=Laure Manaudou no longer a troubled swimmer |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/swimming/laure-manaudou-no-longer-a-troubled-swimmer.html |access-date=2 July 2012 |agency=[[Reuters]]}}</ref>
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 ! Olympic Games !! !! colspan="2" | World Championships !! !! colspan="3" | European Championships
 |-
-| align="center" | [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 in Athens]] <br />
+| style="text-align:center;"| [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 in Athens]] <br />
-| align="center" bgcolor="C0C0C0" |
+|  style="text-align:center; background:silver;"|
-| align="center" | [[2005 World Aquatics Championships|2005 in Montréal]] <br />
+| style="text-align:center;"| [[2005 World Aquatics Championships|2005 in Montréal]] <br />
-| align="center" | [[2007 World Aquatics Championships|2007 in Melbourne]] <br />
+| style="text-align:center;"| [[2007 World Aquatics Championships|2007 in Melbourne]] <br />
-| align="center" bgcolor="C0C0C0" |
+|  style="text-align:center; background:silver;"|
-| align="center" | [[2004 European Aquatics Championships|2004 in Madrid]] <br />
+| style="text-align:center;"| [[2004 European Aquatics Championships|2004 in Madrid]] <br />
-| align="center" | [[2006 European Aquatics Championships|2006 in Budapest]] <br />
+| style="text-align:center;"| [[2006 European Aquatics Championships|2006 in Budapest]] <br />
-| align="center" | [[2008 European Aquatics Championships|2008 in Eindhoven]] <br />
+| style="text-align:center;"| [[2008 European Aquatics Championships|2008 in Eindhoven]] <br />
 |-
-| rowspan="4" align="center" | Freestyle || align="center" | 200 m ||  || align="center" | ||   || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 1:55.52 '''WR''' ||  || || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 1:58.38 ||
+| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| Freestyle || style="text-align:center;"| 200 m ||  || style="text-align:center;"| ||   ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 1:55.52 '''WR''' ||  || ||  style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"| 1:58.38 ||
 |-
-| align="center" | 400 m || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 4:05.34  '''ER''' || align="center" | || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 4:06.44 || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 4:02.61  '''CR''' || align="center" | || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 4:07.90 || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 4:02.13 '''WR''' ||
+| style="text-align:center;"| 400 m ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 4:05.34  '''ER''' || style="text-align:center;"| ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 4:06.44 ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 4:02.61  '''CR''' || style="text-align:center;"| ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 4:07.90 ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 4:02.13 '''WR''' ||
 |-
-| align="center" | 800 m || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 8:24.96  || align="center" | || || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 8:18.80 '''ER''' || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 8:19.29 '''ER''' ||
+| style="text-align:center;"| 800 m ||  style="text-align:center; background:silver;"| 8:24.96  || style="text-align:center;"| || ||  style="text-align:center; background:silver;"| 8:18.80 '''ER''' || || ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 8:19.29 '''ER''' ||
 |-
-| align="center" | 4 × 200 m || || align="center" | || || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 7:55.96 '''NR''' || || || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 7:56.44 '''NR''' || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 7:52.09 '''NR'''
+| style="text-align:center;"| 4 × 200 m || || style="text-align:center;"| || ||  style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"| 7:55.96 '''NR''' || || ||  style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"| 7:56.44 '''NR''' ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 7:52.09 '''NR'''
 |-
-| rowspan="2" align="center" | Backstroke || align="center" | 100 m || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 1:00.88 ||  || || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 59.87 '''ER''' || || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 1:00.93 || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1:00.88 || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 1:00.05
+| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| Backstroke || style="text-align:center;"| 100 m ||  style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"| 1:00.88 ||  || ||  style="text-align:center; background:silver;"| 59.87 '''ER''' || ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 1:00.93 ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 1:00.88 ||  style="text-align:center; background:silver;"| 1:00.05
 |-
-| align="center" | 200 m || align="center" | ||  || || |    || || align="center" | || align="center" | || align="center"  bgcolor="gold" | 2:07.99 '''NR'''
+| style="text-align:center;"| 200 m || style="text-align:center;"| ||  || || |    || || style="text-align:center;"| || style="text-align:center;"| ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 2:07.99 '''NR'''
 |-
-| rowspan="2" align="center" | Medley  || align="center" | 200 m || || || || || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 2:12.69 ||
+| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| Medley  || style="text-align:center;"| 200 m || || || || || || ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 2:12.69 ||
 |-
-| align="center" | 4 × 100 m || || || || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 4:05.96 || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 4:03.64 '''NR''' ||
+| style="text-align:center;"| 4 × 100 m || || || || || ||  style="text-align:center; background:gold;"| 4:05.96 ||  style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"| 4:03.64 '''NR''' ||
 |}
 * '''WR''' : [[List of world records in swimming|World record]]
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 ==References==
-{{Reflist|30em}}
+{{Reflist}}
 ==External links==
 {{commons category|Laure Manaudou}}
-* {{Official website|http://www.lauremanaudou.fr/}} {{fr icon}}
 * {{Swimrankings|id=4042608}}
-* [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825749,00.html "Laure Manaudou"], n°27 on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''’s list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch"
+* [https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825749,00.html "Laure Manaudou"], n°27 on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'''s list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch"
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-{{Footer European Champions 4x200m Freestyle Women}}
+{{Footer European Champions 4x200m Freestyle Women|2008}}
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+[[Category:French female freestyle swimmers]]
-[[Category:Female freestyle swimmers]]
+[[Category:French female backstroke swimmers]]
-[[Category:Female backstroke swimmers]]
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-[[Category:Legion of Honour recipients]]
+[[Category:Recipients of the Legion of Honour]]
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+[[Category:French female medley swimmers]]
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-[[Category:Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games]]
+[[Category:Swimmers at the 2005 Mediterranean Games]]
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+[[Category:21st-century French sportswomen]]

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