Pierre Henri
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| Full name | Pierre Henri | ||||||||||||
| National team |
 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] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pierre Henri (born February 25, 1983) is a French swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[2] He represented his nation France at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also claimed 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 competed as a lone French swimmer in the men's 400 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He topped the field with a time of 4:18.23 for an outright spot on the Olympic swimming team at the French Championships in Dunkirk, bettering the insurmountable FINA A-standard (4:18.40) by just 0.17 of a second.[4] Swimming in heat five, Henri came from the bottom of the field to power past the Greek swimmer Romanos Alyfantis by exactly a single second for the seventh spot in 4:22.41. Henri failed to advance to the top eight final, as he placed twenty-second overall in the prelims.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "France Olympique Profile – Pierre Henri" (in French). French Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Pierre Henri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Euro Juniors Day One: Britain's Goddard Streaks 4:19 in IM". Swimming World Magazine. 6 July 2001. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ↑ "French Olympic Trials: French Record in Women's 400 IM Falls". Swimming World Magazine. 20 April 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming: Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 December 2012.