There are years that we remember more than others. For Benjamin Pillerault, 2024 will undoubtedly be marked with a milestone as events have continued for the Loir-et-Chérien located in Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire.
It all started with participation in the Paralympic Games with the French team where the paravolleyer, even if he did not play the last match due to a shoulder injury and even if the Blues did not shone, lived a “waking dream”.
The post-Olympic aftermath is sometimes difficult, this was not the case for Benjamin Pillerault. In October, in Prague, he won his first title with the Blues during the Bronze Nations League.
All that was missing to complete this triptych was a result at the European Championships (group B) in Türkiye at the end of November. “The stakes were high because the first three nations moved up to Group A.” With four victories in six matches, the Blues took third place (behind the Netherlands and Turkey) and thus fulfilled their contract.
Thinking of Los Angeles
“This was not necessarily expected because after the Olympics, half of the squad changed. But between the replacements who became starters and the new arrivals, we felt that it worked from the start”explains the man who, with his dad, is at the origin of a sitting volleyball club in Muides.
Top scorer for his team for the last decisive match against Georgia, Benjamin Pillerault, attacker-receiver, hopes that these results will once again bring para-volleyball to the forefront… if possible until the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
While waiting for this still distant deadline, he will return to the domestic championship this weekend with Nantes. And continue to train in Muides before and after his work at the Beauce Val de Loire community of communes. “The real recovery will be in January because I admit that things have been slow since the Games. »
