Laure Manaudou from France went 4:03.03.
Here's the stuff from swimmingworldmagazine.com:
TOURS, France. May, 12. IT'S all over. Janet Evans' long-standing mark of 4:03.85 in the 400-meter freestyle is no more after Laure Manaudou's performance of 4:03.03 at the French Championships. Evans' record had stood since 1988.
Since winning three medals at the Athens Olympics, including gold in the 400 free, Manaudou has been viewed as the favorite to take down Evans' standard. Her effort at the French Championships marked her third win of the meet, complementing gold in the 800 free and 400 individual medley.
Her splits:
28.03 58.30 (30.27)
1:28.90 (30.60) 2:00.00 (31.10)
2:30.85 (30.85) 3:02.07 (31.22)
3:33.05 (30.98) 4:03.03 (29.98)
Manaudou challenged the record in the Athens Olympics, but fell off the last 100. As much as I thought it could be broken by 2008, it still shocks me. That was th single greatest race in the history of swimming. Anyone who saw that race on TV, or on video or wherever, knows what I mean.
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Something that is great about Manaudou's swim is that over the past years many French government sports officials did not want to put a lot of funding into swimming. They heavily funded ice skating and tennis. Many programs really fell apart. Now they are putting more funding into the programs, and they are doingbetter.
Swimmign in France is still not very popular. I'm not sure but I think she swims in Grenoble.
Something that is great about Manaudou's swim is that over the past years many French government sports officials did not want to put a lot of funding into swimming. They heavily funded ice skating and tennis. Many programs really fell apart. Now they are putting more funding into the programs, and they are doingbetter.
Swimmign in France is still not very popular. I'm not sure but I think she swims in Grenoble.
