Franck Esposito
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Nickname | Titou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1971-04-13) 13 April 1971 (age 53) Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CN Antibes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Franck Esposito (born 13 April 1971 in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône)[1] is a former World Record holding, and four-time Olympic, butterfly swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics; and won the bronze medal in the 200 Butterfly at the 1992 Olympics.[2] During his career, he set the short course World Record in the 200 fly four times.
He won a total number of four European titles in long course, starting from 1991. Esposito broke the world record in the 200 m butterfly (short course) four times.
At the 1991 World Championships, he lowered the French Record in the long course 200 Fly for the first time (1:59.00). He subsequently bettered the record six more times, and as of 2013 still holds the record at 1:54.62 which he swam at the 2002 French Championships (at the time, also a European Record).[3] He also held the French Record in the long course 100 fly from August 1993 – April 2008.[4]
See also
- Franck Esposito
References
- ^ (in French) La fiche de Franck Esposto, from L'Équipe; retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ Esposito's entry Archived 24 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine at sports-reference.com; retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ (in French) Record de France de natation messieurs du 200 mètres papillon (trans: French Record progression: men's 200 fly), from French Wikipedia; retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ (in French) Record de France de natation messieurs du 100 mètres papillon (trans: French Record progression: men's 100 fly), from French Wikipedia; retrieved 23 June 2013.
External links
- Personal website: www.franckesposito.fr Archived 2 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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Preceded by | World Record holder Men's 200m Butterfly (25m) 1 February 1992 – 6 February 1993 26 March 1994 – 2 February 1997 14 January 2001 – 1 December 2001 8 December 2002 – 13 December 2008 | Succeeded by |
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- 1993: Franck Esposito (FRA)
- 1995: Scott Goodman (AUS)
- 1997: James Hickman (GBR)
- 1999: James Hickman (GBR)
- 2000: James Hickman (GBR)
- 2002: James Hickman (GBR)
- 2004: James Hickman (GBR)
- 2006: Wu Peng (CHN)
- 2008: Moss Burmester (NZL)
- 2010: Chad le Clos (RSA)
- 2012: Kazuya Kaneda (JPN)
- 2014: Chad le Clos (RSA)
- 2016: Chad le Clos (RSA)
- 2018: Daiya Seto (JPN)
- 2021: Alberto Razzetti (ITA)
- 2022: Chad le Clos (RSA)