Julien Nicolardot
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Julien Nicolardot |
| National team |
 France |
| Born |
13 December 1981 Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France |
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| Club | Mulhouse Olympic Natation[1] |
| Coach | Lionel Horter[1] |
Julien Nicolardot (born December 13, 1981) is a French swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[2] He is a member of Mulhouse Olympic Natation in Mulhouse, and is coached and trained by Lionel Horter.[1]
Nicolardot competed as a lone French swimmer in the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He fired off a scintillating 2:13.36 to immediately punch his ticket to Beijing at the French Championships in Dunkirk, bettering the insurmountable FINA A-standard (2:13.70) by more than a third (0.33) of a second.[3] Swimming on the outside in heat four, Nicolardot headed into the final lap with Austria's Hunor Mate and Kazakhstan's Yevgeniy Ryzhkov racing against each other in a sprint finish for the top three spot, but faded nearly to fifth with a steady 2:12.44, nearly a second faster than his entry time. Nicolardot failed to advance to the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall out of fifty-three swimmers in the prelims.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "France Olympique Profile – Julien Nicolardot" (in French). French Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Julien Nicolardot". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "French Olympic Trials: Malia Metella Breaks National Record in 100 Free; Alain Bernard Leads Strong French Sprint Corps". Swimming World Magazine. 24 April 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 December 2012.