Yannick Agnel

At 202 centimetres, Yannick Agnel was built to dominate the water, and at the 2012 London Games he did exactly that, taking three Olympic medals in his very first Games, headlined by gold in the 200-metre freestyle. The Legion of Honour the same year tells you what he meant to France. What interests me most, though, is the harder question that follows early greatness: how does an athlete who peaks young rebuild a life once the racing stops? I hope he has channelled that same competitive fire into whatever came next, because reaching the summit so fast is its own kind of test.

Name (English)

Yannick Agnel

Name (Japanese)

ヤニック・アニェル

Reading

やにっく・あにぇる

Born

June 9, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Nîmes, Gard, France

Height

202 cm

Occupation

swimmer

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Knight of the Legion of Honour

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB

Tags

• Gard
• swimmer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.