Paralympic champion during the Paris 2024 Games with the Blues of Cécifoot, Gaël Rivière is the new president of the French Handisport Federation.
President of the French Handisport Federation from 2017 to 2024, Guislaine Westelynck has a successor. And not just any: a very recent Paralympic champion in the person of Gaël Rivière. Approved by 87.93% by all voters at the Elective General Assembly, Gaël Rivière becomes the sixth president in the history of FFHandisport.
“This election is an honor but also an obligation, that of taking into account all the voices and all the currents, which make up our Federation, to bring everyone together”underlines Gaël Rivière. “As the French Handisport Federation, we have a power that goes beyond sport, this very power to change mentalities and show the way to inclusion. This summer, on the grounds of the Stade Tour Eiffel, at the time of our Paralympic coronation in blind football, what I heard was that disabled sports could create a strong dynamic. »
« Our Federation can be this beacon that guides and enlightens«
Indeed, during the summer, Gaël Rivière was part of the wonderful blind football adventure. Player of the French team, silver medalist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, then gold at the Paris 2024 Games, Gaël Rivière also studied law, becoming a lawyer at the Paris Bar in 2017. Under the 2020-2024 mandate, he was vice-president of the French Handisport Federation in charge of the Visually Impaired Sport mission.
From now on, he and his team will have the task of perpetuating the dynamic and legacy of the Paris Games.. “Our Federation can be this beacon that guides and enlightens. I hope that together we will build a strong, ambitious and avant-garde Federation, because we can do better and do more, by being imaginative and by strengthening our ties throughout the territory. Members of the Steering Committee, affiliated structures, Departmental and Regional Handisport Committees, licensees, there will always be room, under my mandate, for all those who want to work in the service of the Federation. »
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