Clément Lefert
 |
||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Clément Lefert | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 France
|
|||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 September 1987 Nice, France |
|||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Olympic Nice | |||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Southern California | |||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
||||||||||||||||
Clément Lefert (born 26 September 1987 in Nice) is a retired French Olympic champion in swimming. He won a gold medal at the London 2012 Summer Olympics in the 4×100 meters freestyle relay, with team mates Amaury Leveaux, Fabien Gilot, and Yannick Agnel, besting the American relay team that included Michael Phelps. He also won a silver medal in the 4x200 meters freestyle relay. Lefert is an economics major at the University of Southern California (USC), and holds USC's record in the 200 yard freestyle (1:33.67).
On 1 January 2013, Lefert was made a Knight (Chevalier) of the Légion d'honneur. After finishing his higher education studies, he started as a trader in a commodities trading company in London.
...
Wikipedia