Jérémy Desplanches

Jérémy Desplanches
Personal information
Born (1994-08-07) 7 August 1994
Geneva, Switzerland
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesMedley
ClubGenève Natation 1885
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Switzerland
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo 200 m medley
World Championships (LC)
2019 Gwangju 200 m medley
European Championships (LC)
2018 Glasgow 200 m medley
2020 Budapest 200 m medley
Military World Games
2019 Wuhan 200 m medley

Jérémy Marc George Desplanches (born 7 August 1994) is a Swiss breaststroke and medley swimmer.[1]

He competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and was finalist at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.[1][2]

He won the men's 200m Individual Medley final at the Glasgow 2018 European Swimming Championships in Glasgow[3] and got silver in men's 200m individual medley at the 18th FINA World Championships in Gwangju.[4] He's the second male swimmer from Switzerland to claim a medal at the FINA World Championships, after Dano Halsall in the men's 50m freestyle in 1986.

He represented Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the men's 200m individual medley.

International Swimming League

In 2019 Desplanches was member of the 2019 International Swimming League representing Team Iron.

Personal life

Desplanches is married to French swimmer Charlotte Bonnet.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jeremy Desplanches". les-sports.info. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. ^ Schönenberger, Carl. "Kein Schweizer-Exploit an Schwimm-WM in Budapest" (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. ^ "Jérémy Desplanches champion d'Europe!". Tribune de Genève. 2018-08-06.
  4. ^ "FINA World Championships 2019 | As it happened: Day 14". Olympic Channel. 2019-07-25.
  5. ^ "À Martigues, Jérémy Desplanches vit d'amour et d'eau fraîche". Le Parisien (in French). 2022-06-13.