By Scott Bordow | December 01, 2025
When Léon Marchand returns to Arizona State University’s Tempe campus for his Dec. 15 graduation ceremony, he has one stop he’s determined to make.
“Postino’s,” Marchand said, referencing the Postino Annex restaurant, located on College Avenue. “That was our place as swimmers because it’s right next to the pool (at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center).
“I have really good memories about having those dual meets on Saturday and then going there with all the swimming parents and being all together. That was really special. So, I’ll definitely go there.”
If Marchand’s name sounds familiar, well, it should. He won four gold medals — the 200-meter medley, the 200-meter backstroke, the 200-meter butterfly and the 400-meter medley — at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He became just the third male swimmer in Olympic history — Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz being the others — to win four individual gold medals at a single Games.
And he did it in his native country of France.