Three-Time World Champion Maxime Grousset Out Of French Championships After Fracturing Left Foot
Three-time world champion Maxime Grousset has withdrawn from the French Championships due to a fractured left foot, throwing his hopes of competing at Paris 2026 into doubt.
Grousset, who won the 50/100 fly double at the 2025 World Championships, sustained the injury to the base of his second metatarsal when he was doing a training jump.
According to information from the National Health Service (NHS), metatarsal injuries can take six to eight weeks to heal.
Although a return to the water is possible after around two weeks for a low-impact workout, it would rule out kicking off the wall with the injured foot.
It has forced his withdrawal from the French Championships which run from 26-30 June in Saint-Etienne and casts uncertainty over the Europeans in Paris from 10-16 August which is eight weeks and four days hence.
Grousset said on social media: “It is with great disappointment that I announce my withdrawal from the upcoming French Championships in Saint-Étienne. During a training jump, I fractured the base of the second metatarsal in my left foot. I will need to rest and undergo the necessary treatment. I am very disappointed, but all my energy is now focused on my recovery.”
The Frenchman received many messages of support from teammate and four-time Olympic champion Leon Marchand, Noè Ponti, Thomas Ceccon and Adam Ramsay-Peaty who was himself forced out of the 2022 worlds in Budapest with a foot injury.