Yoris Grandjean

Who is Yoris Grandjean?

Yoris Grandjean is a Belgian swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He won two gold medals at the 2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships, and later represented Belgium at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Since 2009, he still currently holds a Belgian record in the 50 m freestyle from the national championships in Antwerp. Grandjean also trains for Liège Swimming Club under his head coach Andre Henvaux.

Grandjean made his official debut at the 2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he won a total of three medals, and established multiple meet records: two golds each in the 50 m freestyle and 100 m freestyle, and a silver in the 200 m freestyle.

Entering his senior season, Grandjean competed in a sprint freestyle double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He achieved a FINA A-standard entry time of 49.09 after finishing sixth from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In the 100 m freestyle, Grandjean placed nineteenth on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat seven, he blasted a new Belgian record of 48.82 in a Speedo techsuit, but narrowly missed the semifinal cut by only 0.27 of a second. Two days later, in the 50 m freestyle, Grandjean challenged seven other swimmers in heat ten, including Argentina's four-time Olympian José Meolans. He added another Belgian record to his laundry list in a time of 22.45, edging out Finland's Matti Rajakylä by a small fraction of a second. Grandjean failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall out of 97 swimmers in the prelims.