Career
Fabien Gilot started by playing water-polo before switching to swimming. He is part of the French swimming team since the world championship of 2003 in Barcelona. He has collected the large majority of his medals in freestyle and medley relay events and is the only swimmer featuring in all the medalled French relay teams since 2003.
He swam for France at the 2008 Olympics, where he was part of France"s silver medal winning 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.
In the London 2012 Summer Olympics he again swam for France, and as part of France"s team in the Men"s 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, shared in the team"s gold medal. He described Goldschmidt as "a grandfather in every way".