Silver confirmed for Timothée Adolphe in the 400m T11

The French team had filed a protest after the race, believing that the winner of the 400m, Venezuelan Enderson German Santos Gonzalez, had been pulled by his guide. The appeal was rejected, the French team’s management subsequently indicated. Timothée Adolphe, 34, was one of the big favourites for gold in this distance, and crossed the line in 50 seconds 75, behind Santos Gonzalez (50”58). His podium, postponed following the protest, will be held on Monday. In any case, Adolphe, 34, leaves alongside his guide Jeffrey Lami with a medal around his neck, three years after winning silver in Tokyo in the 100m T11, a category reserved for visually impaired athletes.

“There was a crazy energy and we wanted to live up to the public, but right now, there’s a lot of disappointment and frustration.”reacted Timothée Adolphe, considering that he did not “to have produced the race that (they) wanted” with his guide. “We came across some Venezuelans who had a very good race. We know that a disqualification is traumatic and we don’t wish it on them.”had completed the sprinter before the official decision, he who had been disqualified twice, in the 400m precisely, at the last two editions of the Paralympic Games.

Cameroonian Guillaume Junior Atangana, 25-year-old flag bearer of the refugee team, who also dreamed of gold with his guide Donard Ndim Nyamjua, took the bronze medal (50”89).