The Toulouse Capitol will be illuminated in the evening in green and white, the colors of Léon Marchand’s club, crowned for the third time this week at the World Swimming Championships, the city’s mayor announced on Thursday.
“Tonight, the Capitol will be illuminated in green and white, in the historic colors of the Dauphins du Toec, the best club in France, to celebrate our Toulouse hero, the most successful French swimmer in history in the world championship!”, published Jean-Luc Moudenc on Twitter, renamed X.
Having left for the United States in 2021 to join Bob Bowman, former coach of swimming legend Michael Phelps, Marchand is still fired in Toulouse.
He also kept his lifelong coach, Nicolas Castel, with whom he returned to swim in June at the end of the American university year.
The 21-year-old swimmer won the gold medal in the 200m medley on Thursday, his third coronation at the world championships in Fukuoka (Japan) after those in the 400m medley and the 200m butterfly.
He thus became, with five planetary gold medals in total, the most successful Frenchman in the history of the Worlds.
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