Sunday’s summary
Before starting to follow the events of this Monday, we suggest you summarize Sunday in a few lines to bring you up to date.
At the Vélodrome national de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, the C5 individual pursuit was the scene of a great moment for the French Heïdi Gaugain and Marie Patouillet. The strongest during the qualifications, they faced each other in the grand final. After a fratricidal confrontation, it was finally the eldest, aged 36, who won the Paralympic title. In addition, Alexandre Léauté, Gatien Le Rousseau and Kévin Le Cunff ranked fourth in the C1-5 team sprint.
Not necessarily among the big favourites for the S10 100m freestyle final, Emeline Pierre achieved a huge feat this Sunday late afternoon in the pool of the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre. In 1 min 00 s 49, she quite simply became the Paralympic champion of the discipline.
Silver a few days ago in Para sport shooting in Châteauroux, Tanguy De La Forest this time won the Paralympic title in the 10m air rifle SH2 prone mixed. Solid throughout the day, he signed a total of 255.4 points to grab the gold medal ahead of the Brazilian Alexandre Augusto Galgani (254.2 points) and the Japanese Mika Mizuta (232.1 points).
This Sunday was also the day of the Para rowing finals at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Center! Among the five French boats entered, two took third place on the podium: Nathalie Benoît from Marseille in PR1 Skiff as well as Rémy Taranto, Candyce Chafa, Grégoire Bireau, Margot Boulet and Emilie Acquistapace in PR3 coxed four.
During this fourth day of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, France secured three medals… which will be official in the countdown on Monday. In Boccia, Aurélie Aubert already beat Bermudian Yushea Andrade in the tie-break to qualify for the final of the BC1 women’s singles tournament. For the gold, she will face Singaporean Yee Ting Jeralyn Endo and will offer the French delegation the very first Paralympic medal in its history in Boccia. In Para badminton, on the other hand, Lucas Mazur, the reigning Paralympic champion, won 21-13, 21-8 against Indonesian Fredy Setiawan to reach the SL4 final. Charles Noakes (SH6) won 21-18, 22-20 against Brazilian Vitor Tavares and will also play a Paralympic final at the Arena Porte De La Chapelle.
Yesterday’s medals
Or
Marie Patouillet (para cycling),
Tanguy De La Forest (10m rifle shooting prone),
Émeline Pierre (100m freestyle).
Argent
Gloria Agblemagnon (shot put),
Timothy Adolphe (400m),
Heidi Gaugain (para cycling).
Bronze
Nathalie Benoît (para rowing),
Mixed coxed four (para rowing),
Manon Genest (long jump).
