As of 2022, no other climber has matched his achievement in IFSC lead climbing, and as of the end of 2022, Legrand had won the third most IFSC gold medals of any competitive climber in history.

In 1990, he moved to Aix-en-Provence, where he rented an apartment with his friend Yuji Hirayama.

[1] In 1990, aged 20, he won his first Lead Climbing World Cups.

The second-ranking for the number of awarded Lead Climbing World Cups is Alexandre Chabot, who won three consecutive times (2001, 2002, 2003).

Since 2009, he is the coach for the French national youth team together with Rémi Samyn.