Camille Muffat

Camille Muffat was a French swimmer from Nice who specialised in the individual medley and freestyle events, and who competed internationally from 2005 to 2014. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she won gold in the 400 metre freestyle, silver in the 200 metre freestyle and bronze in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay, becoming the fourth French swimmer to win an individual Olympic gold medal and the third French athlete to win three medals at a single Games. She began swimming competitively at Olympic Nice Natation at the age of nine and first rose to prominence in 2005 by beating Laure Manaudou in the 200 metre individual medley at the French national championship. She died aged 25 in the Villa Castelli mid-air helicopter collision while filming the television programme Dropped.