However, it was in the pool that the youngster flourished. She has dominated the European Short Course and Long Course Championships, winning 18 gold medals from 2004 to 2012.
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Instantly transformed into a national icon, she struggled to cope with her new-found celebrity status. She also set several world records in the 200m and 400m freestyle.From 2007 onwards, Manaudou’s career was erratic. In 2003, she won five titles at the French swimming championships, setting four new national records. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by Ai Shibataof Japan. Laure Manaudou, best known for being a Swimmer, was born in Villeurbanne, Rhône, France on Thursday, October 9, 1986. She won the gold medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Olympic Athlete for France. She did so well at her local club that when she was 14 she was ‘headhunted’ by top coach Philippe Lucas, who persuaded her parents to let her relocate to the outskirts of Paris, with the promise: “I’m going to make your daughter a champion”.© Copyright 2017. LM Design ".Do you dream of one more room? The most unusual or unexpected that can be discovered at home?An object or piece of furniture that you could not separate?Honored Decoration, 121 Rue Sainte, Marseille 7th.Are you green plants, flowers, balcony, terrace, garden?Installed since 2012 in the Phocaean capital, Laure Manoudou, since her separation from her former companion Frédérick Bousquet, lives with her little four-year-old Manon, in a modern apartment: she had a crush on the sublime sea view from where she can see the archipelago of Friuli. Over the next three years she racked up three World Swimming Championship titles (and six medals in total), nine European titles (13 medals in total) and 36 national titles (55 medals in total). Unfortunately, she failed once again to emulate her performances of Athens 2004; but she did provide London 2012 with one of its most memorable images, when she jumped ecstatically onto the back of her younger brother Florent, as he emerged from the Olympic pool having won the 50m freestyle final. More generally, Manaudou’s achievements in the pool paved the way for a new generation of French success on the international swimming scene.Born in 1986 in the Rhone region of France, Laure Manaudou grew up in a sporting family.