Yoris Grandjean, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1989
Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: Belgium
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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About Yoris Grandjean
- Yoris Grandjean (born 20 March 1989) 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 (22.13) in the 50 m freestyle from the national championships in Antwerp.
- Grandjean also trains for Liège Swimming Club (French: Club Natation Liège) under his head coach Andre Henvaux.Grandjean made his international debut at the 2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he achieved a total of three medals, and established multiple meet records: two golds each in the 50 m freestyle (22.74) and 100 m freestyle (50.32), and a silver in the 200 m freestyle (1:52.20).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 (100 m freestyle) 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 put up an astonishing swim with a fourth-place time and a Belgian record of 22.45 in heat nine, 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.Grandjean was also selected as a reserve for the Belgian squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but did not compete in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.
- His teammates Louis Croenen, Dieter Dekoninck, Pieter Timmers, and Glenn Surgeloose failed to reach the top 8 final, finishing only in twelfth place with a time of 7:14.44.At the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France, Grandjean solidified his Belgian team (Timmers, Emmanuel Vanluchene, and Jasper Aerents) to take the bronze in the 4×50 m freestyle relay, posting their time of 1:25.60.
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