Pierre Henri

Pierre Henri
Personal information
Nationality  France
Born 25 February 1983
Quimper, Finistère, France
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Individual medley
Club Canet 66[1]
Coach Philippe Lucas[1]

Pierre Henri (born February 25, 1983 in Quimper, Finistère) is a French swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[2] He collected a silver medal in the 400 m individual medley at the 2001 European Junior Championships in Valletta, Malta (4:21.39).[3] Henri is a member of Club Natation Canet 66 in Canet-en-Roussillon, and is coached and trained by Philippe Lucas.[1]

Henri qualified for the men's 400 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 4:18.23 from the Olympic trials in Dunkirk.[4] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth and final heat, including U.S. swimmer and defending Olympic champion Michael Phelps. Henri edged out Greece's Romanos Alyfantis to round out the field in seventh place by exactly a single second, in a time of 4:22.41. Henri failed to advance into the final, as he placed twenty-second overall on the first day of the swimming preliminaries.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "France Olympique Profile – Pierre Henri" (in French). French Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Pierre Henri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Euro Juniors Day One: Britain's Goddard Streaks 4:19 in IM". Swimming World Magazine. 6 July 2001. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "French Olympic Trials: French Record in Women's 400 IM Falls". Swimming World Magazine. 20 April 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 December 2012.

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