Amaury Leveaux is a swimmer who has competed for France. He competed at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Leveaux started his Olympic career as a relay-only swimmer in Athens 2004, but he and the French men's team missed the podium with a seventh place time in the freestyle relay races.
Beijing 2008 marked the peak of Leveaux's swimming career. There, he produced the fastest split of the field on the lead-off leg (47.76) to erase Pieter van den Hoogenband's world record by 0.08 of a second in the heats of 4x100 metres freestyle relay before Eamon Sullivan lowered it with a 47.24 split at the final round. Then, a fine third leg from Frédérick Bousquet put him and the French men's team into the lead over the Americans by more than half a second (0.59). As Alain Bernard dove into the final exchange, he led almost the entire leg until Jason Lezak passed him near the wall at the closest margins to touch the wall first with a new world record time (3:08.24), leaving Leveaux and the French men's team with a silver and a European record by 0.08 of a second. On the individual side, he recorded the fastest time of the field (21.46) by winning the last of twelve heats in the 50 metres freestyle. He swam faster than his personal best by a hundredth of a second (0.01) in the final, but he trailed the winner César Cielo Filho to take the silver. When he enjoyed his teammate Bernard snatching a bronze, they became the first pair of French swimmers to ever reach the Olympic podium in the same individual race.
Leveaux's podium streak continued at his third Games in London four years later. He helped the French men's team of Gilot, Clément Lefert, and Yannick Agnel beat the Americans by 0.55 seconds to snatch a gold for the first time in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay. He closed out his Olympic career with a third silver as a member of the French men's 4x200 metres freestyle relay team. Leveaux also returned as a runner-up from the previous Games in the 50 metres freestyle, but he fell short of the semifinals by a small fraction of a second.
Olympic Results[]
Year | Event | Rank |
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2004 | Men's 4x100m freestyle relay | 7th |
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay | 7th | |
2008 | Men's 50m freestyle | |
Men's 200m freestyle | 18th | |
Men's 4x100m freestyle relay | ||
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay | 11th | |
2012 | Men's 50m freestyle | 18th |
Men's 4x100m freestyle relay | ||
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay |
2004[]
Discipline | Round | Time |
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4x100 metres freestyle relay | Heats | 3:17.64 (49.41 split) |
Final | 3:16.23 (Reserve) | |
4x200 metres freestyle relay | Heats | 7:21.31 (1:49.65 split) |
Final | 7:17.43 (1:48.57 split) |
2008[]
Discipline | Round | Time | |
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50 metres freestyle | Heats | 21.46 | OR |
Semifinal | 21.76 | ||
Final | 21.45 | ||
200 metres freestyle | Heats | 1:47.44 | |
Semifinal | Template:DNS | ||
Final | Did not advance | ||
4x100 metres freestyle relay | Heats | 3:12.36 (47.76 split, OR) |
AR |
Final | 3:08.32 (47.91 split) |
AR | |
4x200 metres freestyle relay | Heats | 7:13.57 (1:45.89 split) |
|
Final | Did not advance |
2012[]
Discipline | Round | Time | |
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50 metres freestyle | Heats | 22.35 | |
Semifinal | Did not advance | ||
Final | |||
4x100 metres freestyle relay | Heats | 3:13.38 (48.61 split) |
|
Final | 3:09.93 (48.13 split) |
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4x200 metres freestyle relay | Heats | 7:09.18 (1:47.87 split) |
|
Final | 7:02.77 (1:46.70 split) |
NR |