French Portrait Series: Men’s 4×100 Free Relay (Video)

2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES

• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Swimming: August 6-13
• Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Barra Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro
• Prelims – 9:00 a.m/12:00 p.m PST/EST (1:00 p.m local), Finals – 6:00 p.m/9:00 p.m PST/EST (10:00 p.m local)
• SwimSwam previews
• Schedule & Results
• Live Stream (NBC)

The French Federation is releasing a series of quick-hit videos on the FFN YouTube channel introducing members of France’s 2016 Olympic team in facts and figures. The videos are all under a minute and are a great way to portrait France’s stars for the Snapchat crowd.

In this video, we learn that the Men’s 4×100 Free Relay:

-won its first international medal at the 2003World Championship in Barcelona, with a team composed of Fabien Gilot, Frédérick Bousquet, Julien Sicot, and Romain Barnier;
-has had 13 swimmers make up its international title-winning quartet over the years: Grégory Malet, Mehdy Metella, Yannick Agnel, Jérémy Stravius, Clément Mignon, Lloris Bourelly, Fabien Gilot, Florent Manaudou, Frédérick Bousquet, William Meynard, Amaury Leveaux, Clément Lefert, Alain Bernard;
-holds 3 European Championship titles;
-has won 2 World Championship titles;
-is Olympic Champion.