Fred Vergnoux is the new technical director of CN Metropole de Las Palmas of Gran Canaria leaving his head coaching position at the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN). For the last 11 years he has coached Mireia Belmonte, winner of the Women's 200 Fly at the Rio Olympics. Some of his other swimmers including Alena Popchanka (Fred's wife!), Amaury Leveaux, and Kirsty Balfour.

Before Spain, Fred was handpicked by Bill Sweetenham as he was rebuilding British Swimming.

00:00 Swimming Sponsors
03:30 Hi Fred
04:45 Resting at Mom's house
06:15 Frenchman in charge of Spanish National Team
09:00 Multilingual
12:15 Coaching influences & philosophies
22:30 Back to club coaching
26:05 See the plan through
32:45 Mireia Belmonte
36:55 How Belmonte trains
43:55 Gold medal set
46:00 Mental coach
58:15 Learning from COVID
01:04:00 What it takes
01:10:00 Paris
01:13:00 Bill Sweetenham story

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