1. Laure Manaudou has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter.
18 Facts About Laure Manaudou
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Laure Manaudou is the older sister of Florent Manaudou who is an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.
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Laure Manaudou won the gold medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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Laure Manaudou won the bronze medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke, thus becoming only the 2nd Frenchwoman to win three medals in a single Olympic Games, Summer or Winter.
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Laure Manaudou is currently tied for third on the all-time list of French multiple female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners along with Micheline Ostermeyer, Marielle Goitschel, Pascale Trinquet-Hachin, Perrine Pelen, Anne Briand-Bouthiaux, Marie-Jose Perec, Felicia Ballanger and Camille Muffat.
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On 24 July 2005 at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada, Laure Manaudou won the women's 400-m freestyle.
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Laure Manaudou was under world record pace for the first half of the race.
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On 12 May 2006, Laure Manaudou broke Janet Evans's world record in the women's 400-meter freestyle swim that had stood for 18 years.
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Laure Manaudou then held the same world record for nearly two years.
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Laure Manaudou won the 800-m freestyle, 200-m individual medley and 100-m backstroke titles.
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Laure Manaudou broke the 200-m freestyle world record at the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne in winning the final.
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Laure Manaudou was thus prevented from becoming the first female swimmer to win the 200-m, 400-m and 800-m freestyle titles at the same World Championships.
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Laure Manaudou then finished seventh in the 100-m backstroke final.
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On 17 September 2009, at 22 years of age, Laure Manaudou announced through the newspaper Le Parisien her retirement from competitive swimming.
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Laure Manaudou made her return to competition on July 14,2011, in Tigers colours at a small swimming meet in Athens, Georgia, in the United States, where she set a personal record in the 50-m freestyle event.
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Laure Manaudou failed to advance from the first round heats in all the three events.
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Laure Manaudou is dating Frero Delavega singer Jeremy Frerot, with whom she has two sons, and a daughter from a previous relationship with Frederick Bousquet.
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Between June 2004 and April 2008, Laure Manaudou remained unbeaten in the 400-metre freestyle, winning 23 finals in succession.