After two mandates at the head of the Finistère disabled sports committee, Quimperois Hervé Larhant gave way to Pierre Marchand within an office renewed by half (1). The election took place Friday at the Maison des sports in Quimper.
Father of a daughter who no longer has the use of her legs, who is deaf and who practices swimming and catamaran sailing, Pierre Marchand began to get involved in disabled sports three years ago within Brest Handisport. He lives at Hôpital-Camfrout and works in Brest.
“Disabled sport brings so much to all people with disabilities as well as parents or carers that I decided to get involved in it. I left my other associative mandates to devote myself 100% to it, says the father of Romane (born in 2011) who is one of the 24 swimmers qualified for the French disabled swimming championships over 25 meters in the “future-young” category. » on December 8 and 9 in Saint-Nazaire.
The priority of the new team in place remains the same: continue to raise awareness and promote disabled sports for people with disabilities for all that it can bring them. Finistère currently has 560 disabled sports licensees who practice 25 different activities within 11 affiliated clubs and around twenty other able-bodied clubs capable of welcoming them.
(1) The new office: Pierre Marchand (president), Valérie Rosuel (secretary), Eric Athéa (treasurer), Arnaud Le Deun, Nathalie Lossec, Evelyne Veron, Yannig Gueguen, Charly Kernaleguen, Hervé Larhant, Roger Magueur, Mariamma Merandon, Jean-Louis Abiven, Merlin Caubert, Jean-Michel Lannuzel, Florence Le Deon, Didier Malleron, Jean-Guy Carval (members).
