Pierre Henri

Pierre Henri
Personal information
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]
Men's swimming
Representing France
European Junior Championships

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

"France Olympique Profile – Pierre Henri" (in French). French Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pierre Henri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
"Euro Juniors Day One: Britain's Goddard Streaks 4:19 in IM". Swimming World Magazine. 6 July 2001. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
"French Olympic Trials: French Record in Women's 400 IM Falls". Swimming World Magazine. 20 April 2008. Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
"Swimming: Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile

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[france-olympique-1] "France Olympique Profile – Pierre Henri" (in French). French Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pierre Henri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2012.

[3] "Euro Juniors Day One: Britain's Goddard Streaks 4:19 in IM". Swimming World Magazine. 6 July 2001. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

[4] "French Olympic Trials: French Record in Women's 400 IM Falls". Swimming World Magazine. 20 April 2008. Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

[5] "Swimming: Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.