Florian Jouanny in bronze at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. This is a new medal for French paracycling, the 41st in total for the French delegation. The native of Échirolles, south of Grenoble, is adding to his list of achievements after winning three medals at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Money is missing by a whisker
Florian Jouanny covered the 14.1 kilometres of the Clichy-sous-Bois course in 25’19″29. The Italian Luca Mazzone snatched second place from him by a few hundredths with a time of 25’18″83. These two men finished far behind the Spaniard Sergio Garrote, who won the gold medal. “I gave my all, others were better than me. I will try to do better tomorrow. I was perhaps too cautious because I was afraid of going to the mat on this somewhat dangerous course. I had the feeling of being at the maximum, in the last turn I was too cautious. The second one was easily there”, explained Florian Jouanny after his race.
