2025 FRENCH ELITE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, June 14th – Thursday, June 19th
- Prelims at 8am local (2am ET)/Finals at 6pm local (Noon ET)
- Montpellier, France
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It is night one of the French Elite Championships, and national records are already falling. Maxime Grousset opened his meet by swimming 22.70 in the men’s 50 fly to break his own French record by two-hundredths.
Men’s 50 Butterfly – Finals
- World Record: 22.27 – Andrii Govorov, UKR (2018)
- World Junior Record: 22.96 – Diogo Ribeiro, POR (2022)
French Record: 22.72 – Maxime Grousset (2023)- French World Championship Qualifying Time: 23.04
Podium:
GOLD – Maxime Grousset (France), 22.70
SILVER – Michel Arkhangelsky (Russia), 23.14
BRONZE – Nikita Baez (France), 23.23
After putting the record on notice this morning, by blasting 22.74 in the prelims to earn the top qualifying spot by almost three tenths, Grousset came out hot tonight to win the event by more than four tenths of a second in a new French Record time of 22.70.
Grousset’s previous record of 22.72 came from the prelims of the 2023 World Championships, where he went on to win the bronze medal in finals.
His time today ties him with Henrique Martins for the 10th fastest performer of all-time spot, coming in just behind Thomas Ceccon and Ilya Kharun’s tie at 22.68. It also moves him into the top-20 swims in history, placing him in a three-way tie for 18th with Henrique Martins and Oleg Kostin.
Updated Top 10 Performer Rankings:
- Andrii Govorov, Ukraine – 22.27 (2018)
- Caeleb Dressel, USA – 22.35 (2019)
- Rafa Munoz, Spain – 22.43 (2009)
- Nicholas Santos, Brazil – 22.60 (2023)
- Oleg Kostin, Russia – 22.62 (2023)
- Noe Ponti, Switzerland – 22.65 (2024)
- Milorad Cavic, Serbia – 22.67 (2009)
- (TIE) Thomas Ceccon, Italy – 22.68 (2024) & Ilya Kharun, Canada — 22.68 (2025)
- N/A
- Henrique Martins, Brazil (2025)/Maxime Grousset, France — 22.70 (2025)*
This will also rank him 2nd in the world this year, behind Kharun’s aforementioned 22.68 from Canadian Trials.
2024-2025 LCM Men 50 Fly
KHARUN
22.68
| 2 | Maxime GROUSSET | FRA | 22.70 | 06/14 |
| 3 | Nyls Korstanje | NED | 22.72 | 05/26 |
| 4 | Noe PONTI | SUI | 22.77 | 04/03 |
| 5 | Abdelrahman Sameh Elaraby | EGY | 22.80 | 05/18 |
Grousset is also entered in the 100 fly, and the 50 and 100 freestyle events this week.
Kharun, Grousset, Korstanje, Ponti are now deemed podium hopefuls in 50 fly in the Worlds. Whoever’s able to peak out in a month or so will top the podium. Go for it.
Don’t forget about Ceccon, dude has a magical ability to stay under the radar and sneak out of nowhere when the final rolls around
M50 fly will be so close, it will be very hard to see the winner
Chalmers also swam 22.89 in Australian trials.
Confident we will start seeing swimmers go 22 low in this event