Two golds for France’s Marchand

Leon Marchand. Pic/AFP

France's Leon Marchand, 22, produced a dazzling double gold-medal winning performance to electrify the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, powering to victories in the 200m breaststroke and 200m butterfly to send the host nation into ecstatic celebrations.

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He bagged his first gold of the night after summoning a lung-bursting late charge to claim the 200m fly, and then just under two hours later showed incredible reserves of stamina to motor home in the 200m breaststroke. The back-to-back golds made Marchand - who won gold in the 400 individual medley earlier in the Games - the first swimmer to win 200 fly and breaststroke in the same Olympics.

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