The two Blues have succeeded in satisfying themselves with silver metal.
Le Monde with AFP
French swimmers Maxime Grousset and Charlotte Bonnet won a silver medal on Friday August 12, respectively on the 50 m butterfly and the 100 m free swimming of the European championships in Rome.
Maxime Grousset, 23, ranked second with a time of 22 s 97, behind the Italian, Thomas Ceccon, crowned European champion in 22 s 89, and in front of the Portuguese, Diogo Matos Ribeiro (23 s 07). He thus qualified for the final with the fifth chrono of the semi-finals (48 s 15), far from his brand established at the Worlds of Budapest, where he had won the silver medal (47 s 64), behind Romanian , David Popovici. The other Frenchman engaged in the semi-finals, Hadrien Salvan, has produced the tenth time, failing at the gates of the final.
“I am still happy, this is my first medal in the European championship”, reacted Maxime Grousset. “I’m going to satisfy myself with that and qualifying in the 100 -meter final. It was the goal.”
the French swimmer, Charlotte BONNET, is now she is now free of the 100 m freestyle. The Dutchman, Marrit Steenbergen (53 s 24), won her first European title in individual, before Bonnet (53 s 62) and the British, Freya Anderson (53 s 63).
for the 27 -year swimmer, it is a “relief”. “It’s been very long that I had not been on a podium,” said Charlotte Bonnet, whose last individual medal in an international championship dates from 2018. “Emotionally I am not awarded everything I have Power in the past 2-3 years, “said Philippe Lucas’ pupil, who had been disappointed with his performances at the Budapest Worlds in June. In Hungary, she had only taken sixth place in her favorite race, the 200 m freestyle, before being eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 m.
“I am super happy in six weeks of having been able to bounce back from a competition where it was still a failure. It was complicated to get back into it and there I am a silver medalist. Yes, I Would have liked to win and hear “La Marseillaise” but frankly I can’t be too greedy, I have to be satisfied. “