STADE DE VANVES · FRA
Camille is a swimmer from France, a backstroke specialist and a sprinter, whose official competitive record spans 14 seasons, 15 years, 17 countries and 66 meets.
His recorded career begins in 2003 in Nice, where he raced the 200 individual medley in 2:15.17.
His signature event is the 50 backstroke, the event he has raced the most, followed by the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke. Backstroke is the backbone of the whole record: 65 meets and 127 recorded swims.
His fastest 50 backstroke stands at 24.07, set in long course (50 m) at European Championships 2010.
He has raced at the Olympic Games level, between 2012 and 2016 (Olympic Games London 2012 and Olympic Games Rio 2016). A representative mark at that level is 52.70 in the 100 backstroke, recorded in long course (50 m). He also appears in world championships, the World Cup circuit, continental championships, national championships and international meets.
After a 2-year break between 2007 and 2009, he came back to racing and the record picks up again in 2009. 2015 is the busiest season on record, with 27 verified individual swims.
He is a genuinely international swimmer: the official record spans 17 countries (France, Australia, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Germany, Monaco, the Netherlands, RUS, Brazil, China, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United States), including 30 of 66 meets outside France.
Those meets span 38 different venues (Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Rome…).
Latest competition: 17th FINA World Championships 2017 in Budapest, on July 30, 2017, with 1 swim: 24.35 in the 50 backstroke, all in long course (50 m). He closes this record with 27 current event personal bests and 37 all-time PB improvements, across 143 verified official swims in competitions governed by World Aquatics.