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Amaury Leveaux has competed for France Amaury Leveaux has won 1 gold medal at the Olympic Games Amaury Leveaux has won 3 silver medals at the Olympic Games 

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
2004 Men's 4x100m freestyle relay 7th
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay 7th
2008 Men's 50m freestyle Silver
Men's 200m freestyle 18th
Men's 4x100m freestyle relay Silver
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay 11th
2012 Men's 50m freestyle 18th
Men's 4x100m freestyle relay Gold
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay Silver

2004[]

Discipline Round Time
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
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
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)
4x200 metres freestyle relay Heats 7:09.18
(1:47.87 split)
Final 7:02.77
(1:46.70 split)
NR
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