France at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

France at the
2015 World Aquatics Championships
France at the; 2015 World Aquatics Championships
	Flag of France
FINA code	FRA
National federation	Fédération Française de Natation
Website	www.ffnatation.fr
in Kazan, Russia
Competitors	63 in 5 sports
Medals; Ranked 6th	Gold 5 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 7
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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France competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, from 24 July to 9 August 2015.

Medalists edit

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Aurélie Muller	Open water swimming	Women's 10 km	July 28
Gold	Fabien Gilot Florent Manaudou Mehdy Metella Clément Mignon* Jérémy Stravius	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	August 2
Gold	Florent Manaudou	Swimming	Men's 50 m butterfly	August 3
Gold	Florent Manaudou	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle	August 8
Gold	Camille Lacourt	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke	August 9
Silver	Camille Lacourt	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	August 4
Bronze	Fabien Gilot Camille Lacourt Mehdy Metella Giacomo Perez d'Ortona	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	August 9

Diving edit

French divers qualified for the individual spots and the synchronized teams at the World Championships.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Matthieu Rosset	1 m springboard	369.15	10 Q	—		392.65	10
Matthieu Rosset	3 m springboard	423.85	12 Q	488.25	6 Q	460.55	10
Benjamin Auffret	10 m platform	463.60	10 Q	461.35	11 Q	490.25	5
Alexis Jandard	10 m platform	322.20	39	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Laura Marino	10 m platform	332.80	8 Q	349.50	4 Q	331.20	9

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Benjamin Auffre Laura Marino	10 m synchronized platform	295.35	7
Matthieu Rosset Laura Marino	Team	417.20	5

High diving edit

France has qualified one high diver at the World Championships.^[1]

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Cyrille Oumedjkane	Men's high diving	317.5	18

Open water swimming edit

France fielded a full team of five swimmers to compete in the open water marathon.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
David Aubry	Men's 5 km	55:28.5	17
Marc-Antoine Olivier	Men's 10 km	1:50:06.4	6
Marc-Antoine Olivier	Men's 25 km	Did not finish
Axel Reymond	Men's 5 km	55:31.8	22
	Men's 10 km	1:50:28.4	12
	Men's 25 km	4:55:55.8	4
Coralie Codeville	Women's 10 km	1:58:53.8	16
Aurélie Muller	Women's 10 km	1:58:04.3
Aurélie Muller	Women's 25 km	5:16:07.5	4
David Aubry Aurélie Muller Marc-Antoine Olivier	Mixed team	56:50.9	11

Swimming edit

French swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):^[2] Swimmers must qualify at the 2015 French Championships in Limoges (for pool events) to confirm their places for the Worlds.

The French team consists of 28 swimmers (14 men and 14 women). Among the official roster featured defending World champion Camille Lacourt in the 50 m backstroke and 2012 Olympic champion Florent Manaudou in the 50 m freestyle.^[3] Reigning Olympic and World gold medalist Yannick Agnel was initially selected to the team, but had elected to withdraw from the Championships due to health issues, missing out an opportunity to successfully defend his 200 m freestyle title.^[4]^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Joris Bouchat	800 m freestyle	7:52.37	14	—		Did not advance
Thomas Dahlia	200 m breaststroke	2:12.64	22	Did not advance
Fabien Gilot	100 m freestyle	48.73	10 Q	48.56	11	Did not advance
Damien Joly	400 m freestyle	3:50.89	=24	—		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	7:50.30	11	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	14:58.79	10	—		Did not advance
Camille Lacourt	50 m backstroke	24.56	1 Q	24.27	1 Q	24.23
Camille Lacourt	100 m backstroke	53.92	=12 Q	52.70	2 Q	52.48
Grégory Mallet	200 m freestyle	1:48.77	30	Did not advance
Florent Manaudou	50 m freestyle	21.71	1 Q	21.41	2 Q	21.19
Florent Manaudou	50 m butterfly	23.15	1 Q	22.84 NR	1 Q	22.97
Mehdy Metella	100 m butterfly	52.07	13 Q	51.39	6 Q	51.24	5
Clément Mignon	50 m freestyle	22.50	19	Did not advance
Clément Mignon	200 m freestyle	DSQ		Did not advance
Giacomo Perez d'Ortona	50 m breaststroke	27.42	10 Q	27.51	14	Did not advance
Giacomo Perez d'Ortona	100 m breaststroke	1:00.80	24	Did not advance
Benjamin Stasiulis	200 m backstroke	1:59.05	20	Did not advance
Jérémy Stravius	100 m freestyle	48.52	5 Q	48.65	13	Did not advance
	50 m backstroke	24.95	7 Q	24.94	9 Q	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.92	=12 Q	54.54	16	Did not advance
Mehdy Metella Florent Manaudou Fabien Gilot Jérémy Stravius Lorys Bourelly* Clément Mignon*	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:14.53	4 Q	—		3:10.74
Jordan Pothain Grégory Mallet Lorys Bourelly Clément Mignon	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:12.68	11	—		Did not advance
Fabien Gilot Camille Lacourt Mehdy Metella Giacomo Perez d'Ortona	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:32.51	3 Q	—		3:30.50

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Coralie Balmy	200 m freestyle	1:59.70	23	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:09.68	16	—		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	DNS		—		Did not advance
Charlotte Bonnet	100 m freestyle	54.01	8 Q	54.15	10	Did not advance
Charlotte Bonnet	200 m freestyle	1:57.99	8 Q	1:57.01	9	Did not advance
Mathilde Cini	50 m backstroke	28.46	15 Q	28.16	10	Did not advance
Mathilde Cini	100 m backstroke	1:01.77	33	Did not advance
Fanny Deberghes	100 m breaststroke	1:10.70	=39	Did not advance
Béryl Gastaldello	100 m freestyle	55.11	21	Did not advance
	50 m backstroke	28.02	=7 Q	28.30	13	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:01.91	34	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	26.46	=14 Q	26.25	14	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	59.06	24	Did not advance
Lara Grangeon	200 m butterfly	2:08.54	8 Q	2:08.67	11	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:13.50	18	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:38.20	8 Q	—		4:40.98	8
Mélanie Henique	50 m butterfly	26.33	=12 Q	26.03	10	Did not advance
Fantine Lesaffre	400 m individual medley	4:46.06	23	—		Did not advance
Anna Santamans	50 m freestyle	24.90	10 Q	24.93	=13	Did not advance
Marie Wattel	100 m butterfly	58.84	21	Did not advance
Charlotte Bonnet Béryl Gastaldello Cloé Hache Anna Santamans	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:38.35	8 Q	—		3:38.46	8
Charlotte Bonnet Coralie Balmy Cloé Hache Margaux Fabre Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne*	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:55.08	8 Q	—		7.55.98	8
Charlotte Bonnet Béryl Gastaldello Anna Santamans Marie Wattel	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:02.13	12	—		Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lorys Bourelly Clément Mignon Cloé Hache Margaux Fabre	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:28.29	9	Did not advance
Benjamin Stasiulis Giacomo Perez-Dortona Marie Wattel Anna Santamans	4 × 100 m medley relay	DSQ		Did not advance

Synchronized swimming edit

France fielded a full team of eleven synchronized swimmers to compete in each of the following events.

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Estel-Anaïs Hubaud	Solo technical routine	82.6548	11 Q	83.0030	12
Margaux Chrétien	Solo free routine	85.6667	10 Q	86.6000	8
Laura Augé Margaux Chrétien	Duet technical routine	84.9664	8 Q	84.7751	9
Laura Augé Margaux Chrétien	Duet free routine	86.6667	8 Q	87.3667	8
Marie Annequin Laura Augé Morgan Beteille Margaux Chrétien Iphinoé Davvetas Camille Guerre Chloé Kautzmann Lauriane Pontat	Team technical routine	85.1487	8 Q	85.1794	8
Laura Augé Morgan Beteille Margaux Chrétien Iphinoé Davvetas Camille Guerre Estel-Anaïs Hubaud Chloé Kautzmann Lauriane Pontat	Team free routine	86.5667	9 Q	87.3333	9

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Benoît Beaufils Virginie Dedieu	Duet free routine	88.5333	3 Q	88.5333	4

Water polo edit

Women's tournament edit

Team roster

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	2	1	0	38	25	+13	5	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	China	3	2	1	0	31	21	+10	5	Advanced to playoffs
3	Hungary	3	1	0	2	37	25	+12	2	Advanced to playoffs
4	France	3	0	0	3	12	47	−35	0

Source: SportResult.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

26 July 2015 18:50	Report	Russia	16–5	France	Kazan Attendance: 2,164 Referees: Peter de Jong (NED), Stephane Roy (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 5–1, 3–2, 4–1, 4–1
		Karimova, Prokofyeva 3	Goals	Guillet 3

28 July 2015 17:30	Report	France	4–13	China	Kazan Attendance: 1,700 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Peter de Jong (NED)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–0, 1–6, 1–5
		Guillet 2	Goals	Niu Guannan 6

30 July 2015 12:10	Report	Hungary	18–3	France	Kazan Attendance: 372 Referees: German Moller (ARG), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 5–1, 1–1, 7–0, 5–1
		Bujka 6	Goals	Guillet 2

13th–16th place semifinals

1 August 2015 12:10	Report	Japan	6–9	France	Kazan Attendance: 1,969 Referees: Fabio Toffoli (BRA), Peter de Jong (NED)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–4, 1–1, 1–2
		Nakano 2	Goals	Guillet 5

13th place game

3 August 2015 10:50	Report	New Zealand	7–6	France	Kazan Attendance: 400 Referees: Dion Willis (RSA), Stephane Roy (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–2, 1–2, 2–0
		Myles 2	Goals	Millot, Tardy 2

References edit

^ "World Championships Kazan 2015 – High Diving Info" (PDF). FINA. 7 June 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Kazan 2015 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
^ "France Names 29 To World Championship Swimming Roster". Swimming World Magazine. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ "Yannick Agnel Withdraws From World Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ "Yannick Agnel renonce aux Mondiaux" [Yannick Agnel withdraws from Worlds]. L'Équipe (in French). 29 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

External links edit

Official website (in French)

[1] "World Championships Kazan 2015 – High Diving Info" (PDF). FINA. 7 June 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2013.

[2] "Kazan 2015 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

[3] "France Names 29 To World Championship Swimming Roster". Swimming World Magazine. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[4] "Yannick Agnel Withdraws From World Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[5] "Yannick Agnel renonce aux Mondiaux" [Yannick Agnel withdraws from Worlds]. L'Équipe (in French). 29 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

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