Félix and Alexis Lebrun European table tennis champions, two months after their Olympic medals

TABLE TENNIS – To mark their arrival on the roof of Europe, a new check was necessary. So just having won the final of the European Championships, Alexis and Félix Lebrun changed their usual sign and ended up lying on the ground.

The two brothers, aged 18 and 21, had just won their greatest title, this Sunday, October 20, two months after the Olympics which saw them climb together to the third step of the podium. The duo left no chance to the Swedes Anton Kallberg-Truls Moregard, beaten 3-0 (11-2, 11-6, 11-8).

It had been 20 years since France had achieved such a performance; in 2004 Patrick Chila and Jean-Philippe Gatien became European champions in Bremen, Germany.

Alexis Lebrun makes the double

“It’s just fantastic to be able to share this together. And then with all our staff too, all our family. Well, I’m not going to party too much right away since I have my match in 30 minutes. But we’re going to make the most of it tonight.” reacted the elder on L’Équipe. A reference to the singles final he plays at the end of the afternoon, still in Linz, Austria.

And which he won, becoming the third Frenchman in history to win the European singles title by Jacques Secutin and Emmanuel Lebesson.

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