Amaury Leveaux

Amaury Leveaux is a French freestyle sprinter, born on 2 December 1985 in Delle in the Territoire de Belfort. He swam for France at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, reaching seventh place with the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay, and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he won silver in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay and in the individual 50 metre freestyle, setting Olympic records in the heats of both. At the 2008 European short course championships he broke the world record in the 100 metre freestyle with 44.94 seconds, and he also held short course world records in the 50 metre freestyle at 20.48 seconds and the 50 metre butterfly at 22.18 seconds. He returned in 2012 to win the European title in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay and, at the London Olympics, swam the lead leg of the French 4 x 100 metre relay that won gold and of the 4 x 200 metre relay that took silver.