| Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
| Olympic Games | ||||
| 1 | 400m Freestyle | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 4:05.34 |
| 2 | 800m Freestyle | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 8:24.96 |
| 3 | 100m Backstroke | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 1:00.88 |
| 7 | 100m Backstroke | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 1:00.10 |
| 8 | 400m Freestyle | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 4:11.26 |
| Semifinal | 200m Backstroke | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 2:12.04 |
| World Championships | ||||
| 1 | 200m Freestyle | 2007 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 1:55.52 |
| 1 | 400m Freestyle | 2007 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 4:02.61 |
| 1 | 400m Freestyle | 2005 | Montreal, QC, CAN | 4:06.44 |
| 2 | 800m Freestyle | 2007 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 8:18.80 |
| 2 | 100m Backstroke | 2007 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 59.87 |
| 3 | 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay | 2007 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 7:55.96 |
Family
Partner Frederick Bousquet, daughter Manon
Language(s) spoken
English, French
Club name
CN Marseille, France
Coach
Brett Hawke, Romain Barnier (lepays.fr, 25 Mar 2012)
Other sports
Her partner Frederick Bousquet is also a swimmer and was a member of the French team that won silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (FINA Aquatics World Magazine, 01 Mar 2010) Her brother Florent also competes in swimming at international level. (reuters.com, 26 Mar 2012)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
She took up swimming at age five. (lauremanaudou.fr, 28 Jun 2006)
Reason for taking up this sport
Her parents wanted her to be able to swim. (lauremanaudou.fr, 28 Jun 2006)
Ambitions
To compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (lemonde.fr, 18 Jul 2011)
Awards
She won the 2007 Swimming World Magazine's Female World Swimmer of the Year award. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 15 Apr 2008)
At the 2006 French Championships, she broke Janet Evans' 18-year-old world record [set at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul in a time of 4:03:85] in the 400m freestyle, finishing in 4:03:03. (lauremanaudou.fr, 28 Jun 2006)
At the 2004 Olympic Games she became the first Frenchwoman to win an Olympic swimming title, when she won gold in the 400m freestyle. France had not won an Olympic title since Jean Boiteaux in 1952. She was nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the 2005 Laureus Sports Awards and was named French Sports Personality of the Year for 2004. (Laureus World Sports Awards, 21 Jun 2005)
General
OLYMPIC OFFER
After qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games in London at the French trials in March, she offered to give her place to friend and teammate Cloe Credeville. (nst.com.my, 25 Mar 2012)
RETIREMENT AND COMEBACK
In September 2009 she announced her retirement from swimming in order to give birth to her first child. After giving birth to daughter Manon in April 2010, she decided to returned to training in October 2010 in the United States with the Auburn University Tigers swim team. She made her return to competition in June 2011 in Tigers colours at a small meet in Athens, Georgia in the United States. "The first two, three months were very difficult. I was crying into my goggles after every session. As I was leaving each day I'd say to myself 'if the next session is like this, I'll stop'. But then, the whole [Auburn University] team got behind me, encouraging me, and it's something that I didn't have before [in France]." (lemonde.fr, 18 Jul 2011; skysports.com, 21 Mar 2012)
Previous Olympics
Beijing 2008, Athens 2004
