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| Full name | Yoris Grandjean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-03-20)20 March 1989 (age 36) Liège, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Liège Natation (BEL) CN Antibes (FRA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Andre Henvaux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yoris Grandjean (born 20 March 1989) is a Belgian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] He won two gold medals at the2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships, and later representedBelgium at the2008 Summer Olympics. Since 2009, he still currently holds a Belgian record (22.13) in the 50 m freestyle from the national championships inAntwerp.[2][3] Grandjean also trains forLiège Swimming Club (French:Club Natation Liège) under his head coach Andre Henvaux.[4]
Grandjean made his international debut at the2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships inRio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he achieved a total of three medals, and established multiple meet records: two golds each in the 50 m freestyle (22.74) and 100 m freestyle (50.32), and a silver in the 200 m freestyle (1:52.20).[5][6]
Entering his senior season, Grandjean competed in a sprint freestyle double at the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing. He achieved aFINA A-standard entry time of 49.09 (100 m freestyle) after finishing sixth from theEuropean Championships inEindhoven, Netherlands.[7][8] In the100 m freestyle, Grandjean placed nineteenth on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat seven, he blasted a new Belgian record of 48.82 in a Speedo techsuit, but narrowly missed the semifinal cut by only 0.27 of a second.[9][10] Two days later, in the50 m freestyle, Grandjean put up an astonishing swim with a fourth-place time and a Belgian record of 22.45 in heat nine, edging out Finland'sMatti Rajakylä by a small fraction of a second. Grandjean failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall out of 97 swimmers in the prelims.[11][12]
Grandjean was also selected as a reserve for the Belgian squad at the2012 Summer Olympics inLondon, but did not compete in the4 × 200 m freestyle relay. His teammatesLouis Croenen,Dieter Dekoninck,Pieter Timmers, andGlenn Surgeloose failed to reach the top 8 final, finishing only in twelfth place with a time of 7:14.44.[13]
At the2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships inChartres, France, Grandjean solidified his Belgian team (Timmers,Emmanuel Vanluchene, andJasper Aerents) to take the bronze in the 4×50 m freestyle relay, posting their time of 1:25.60.[14]
