Franck Schott
Encyclopedia
Franck Schott is a retired backstroke
and freestyle
swimmer from France
, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He won a bronze and a silver medal at the 1991 European Long Course Championships in Athens, Greece.
Backstroke
The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...
and freestyle
Freestyle swimming
Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...
swimmer from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He won a bronze and a silver medal at the 1991 European Long Course Championships in Athens, Greece.