Second day of the Paralympic Games this Friday, August 30, with already one gold medal.
16:48 – Silver medal for Tanguy de La Forest
The Frenchman finished second in the 10m standing rifle shooting event and won his first medal at the Paralympic Games.
16:40 – Medal assured for Tanguy de La Forest!
There are only three left in this final, and the Frenchman is currently provisionally 2nd.
16:31 – Tanguy de La Forest takes back first place
Very nice shot from the Frenchman who returns to equal first place in this final.
16:28 – Tanguy de La Forest provisional second
After the first elimination, the Frenchman is only 0.1 points away from first place. From now on, the last one after each shot is eliminated.
16:23 – Tanguy de La Forest plays for gold
The Frenchman finished first this morning in the qualifications for the 10m standing rifle shooting SH2.
16:04 – Frédérec Cattaneo advances to the second round
France managed their entry into the competition perfectly and won 6-4 6-2 against Marteen ter Hofte.
15:57 – Alexandre Léauté is Paralympic champion
The Frenchman wins the C5 pursuit final and wins a new Paralympic gold medal! This is the second gold medal for the French team
15:53 - Gold goal for Alexandre Léauté
The C2 pursuit final is underway at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Paralympic Velodrome with Alexandre Léauté taking on Belgian Ewoud Vromant. It was already the same match in the final of the world championships a few months ago in Rio.
15:42 – Matches interrupted again at Roland-Garros
The rain is back and matches on the outdoor courts are stopped.
15:33 – Tanguy de La Forest in the para sport shooting final
The Frenchman finished first in the 10m standing rifle shooting qualifications, setting a Paralympic record.
15:23 – Frédéric Cattaneo wins the first round
The Frenchman took the lead in this match by winning the first set six games to four.
15:15 – It’s playing on all the courts at Roland-Garros
The rain stopped in Paris and the matches were able to begin on the outdoor courts.
15:07 – Jakobs and Toupe bow out
Second defeat in two matches for the two Frenchmen, who lost in two sets 21-15 21-15.
14:58 – Thomas Jakobs and David Toupe in the running
The wheelchair para badminton duo lost a set to zero against South Koreans Jeagun Jeong and Sooyoung Yu.
14:48 – The first French medal at 15:49
Alexandre Léauté will play for gold against the Belgian Ewoud Vromant in the 3000m C2 pursuit. He is obviously aiming for the gold medal, after his world record this morning.
14:39 – The French goalball team bows
The Blues in men’s goalball recorded a second defeat in the tournament against Iran, 12 goals to 8.
14:31 – Djelika Diallo in the semi-final!
The Frenchwoman qualified with a golden score for the quarter-finals of the under 65 kg category in para taekwondo and will be in the semi-finals.
14:20 – The second Frenchwoman of the day in para taekwondo
Djelika Diallo begins her match in the quarter-finals of the para taekwondo -65 kg.
14:14 – The first Frenchman on the courts of Roland-Garros
Frédéric Cattaneo is the first Frenchman on the wheelchair tennis courts. He faces the Dutchman Maarten ter Hofte on the Philippe Chatrier court.
14:04 – Sophie Caverzan s’incline
The Frenchwoman was beaten from the start and went into the repechage in the hope of winning a bronze medal.
1:58 p.m. – Sophie Caverzan enters the ring
The Frenchwoman begins her day in para taekwondo -57 kg against the Chinese Yujie Li.
1:55 p.m. – Flora Vautier and Florian Merrien in the semi-final
The French mixed doubles pair XD7 beat the world number four and qualified for the semi-finals! At worst, they will have the bronze medal, and ensure a second medal for France in para table tennis
1:43 p.m. – Flora Vautier and Florian Merrien win a fifth set
The French are back again in this quarter-final! There will be a fifth set!
13:32 – Flora Vautier and Florian Merrien lose the third set
The South Korean pair accelerated in this third round and the French were unable to keep up the pace. They are trailing two rounds to one.
13:31 – Faustine Noël bows
Defeat in two sets for the Frenchwoman, who will absolutely have to win her second group match to hope to move on to the final phase.
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The goal for these 2024 Paralympic Games is quite high for the French delegation, which hopes to break all records as for the Olympic Games. “The goal is mainly gold medals, because that’s what counts most in the table of nations,” recalls Marie-Amélie Le Fur.[…] I was asked if this was not a discounted ambition compared to the Olympic top 5. But we had so neglected performance, we have come a long way. We were 14th in Tokyo; aiming for the top 8 means doubling the number of gold medals, so a real ambition” said Marie-Amélie Le Fur, president of the French Paralympic Committee. As a reminder, in 2021, the French Paralympic delegation won 54 medals, including eleven Olympic titles.
