Frédéric Delcourt (born 14 February 1964) is a French former competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
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National team | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Nord, France | 14 February 1964||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CN Marseille | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Delcourt was born in Nord, France.[1]
He competed in three events for France at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia, including swimming the backstroke leg for the fifth-place French men's 4x100-meter medley relay team.[1] Delcourt won the silver medal in the men's 200-meter backstroke event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[1]
Delcourt attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition in 1984.[2]
See also
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edit- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Frédéric Delcourt". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ 2008 Florida Gators Swimming & Diving Media Guide, History Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 100, 103, 105, 116 (2008). Retrieved September 25, 2010.