DAUPHINS TOULOUSE OEC · FRA
Ganesh is a swimmer from France, an individual medley specialist and an international traveller on the circuit, whose official competitive record spans 10 seasons, 14 years, 13 countries and 55 meets.
His recorded career begins in 2004 in Les Abymes, where he raced the 800 freestyle in 10:01.16. He started out alongside CNIC LES SQUALES.
His signature event is the 200 individual medley, the event he has raced the most, followed by the 400 individual medley and 200 freestyle. Individual medley is the backbone of the whole record: 38 meets and 71 recorded swims.
His fastest 200 individual medley stands at 2:00.52, set in long course (50 m) at French National Championships (50m).
He has raced at the Olympic Games level, in 2010 (Youth Olympic Games Singapore 2010). A representative mark at that level is 2:04.21 in the 200 individual medley, recorded in long course (50 m). He also appears in the World Cup circuit, continental championships, national championships and international meets.
After a 2-year break between 2008 and 2010, he came back to racing and the record picks up again in 2010. 2013 is the busiest season on record, with 22 verified individual swims.
He is a genuinely international swimmer: the official record spans 13 countries (France, the United Kingdom, UNK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, South Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, RUS, Singapore, Türkiye and the United States), including 14 of 55 meets outside France.
Those meets span 36 different venues (Angers, Toulouse, Amiens and Chartres…). He has raced for French Swimming Federation and DAUPHINS TOULOUSE OEC.
Latest competition: French National Championships (50m) in Schiltigheim, on May 26, 2017, with 1 swim: 2:03.03 in the 200 individual medley, all in long course (50 m). He closes this record with 35 current event personal bests and 63 all-time PB improvements, across 121 verified official swims in competitions governed by World Aquatics and European Aquatics.