Laurent Neuville Explained

Birth Date:	15 July 1965
Height:	1.94 m
Weight:	80 kg
Sport:	Swimming
Club:	CA Orsay/Racing Club de France

Laurent Neuville (born 15 July 1965) is a French swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle at the 1989 European Aquatics Championships. He finished sixth and fourth in the same event at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, respectively. Individually, he won a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle at the 1987 Mediterranean Games.

After retirement from senior swimming he was competing in the masters category and set world records in freestyle events.^{[1] [2]} In 2012, he tried to revive the swimming race through Paris.^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319182040/http://www.mastersswimming.org.au/assets/console/document/documents/LC_top%20ten.pdf FINA WORLD MASTERS TOP 10 - LONG COURSE METERS 2010
2. http://www.fina.org/H2O/docs/masters/wrtop10/WRLLCM.pdf FINA WORLD MASTERS RECORDS - LONG COURSE METERS as of JUNE 20, 2012
3. http://www.france24.com/en/20120807-french-swimmers-denied-chance-race-through-travers%C3%A9e-de-paris-a-la-nage-paris-swim French swimmers denied chance to race through Paris