The first events of the Paralympic Games begin this Thursday, August 29, discover all the results.
1:16 p.m. – It’s Stéphane Messi and Kevin Dourbecker’s turn
The matches of the different doubles classifications continue at the Arena Paris Sud with a new French pair.
13:06 – A little late at the Grand Palais
Scheduled for 12:54, Bopha Kong will have to wait a few minutes before he can make his entrance. There are still two fights left before his turn.
12:58 – Heidi Gaugain did not aim to reach the final
Although the 19-year-old Frenchwoman took part in the 500m standings this afternoon, she only achieved the 11th time in the series. But Heïdi Gaugain did not want to qualify for the final. “The goal is to get my bearings by doing two pursuit-type laps (…), to get my bearings for the rest in relation to the public, the heat of the velodrome.”
12:44 – An exceptional atmosphere again at the para table tennis
The Arena Paris Sud has not calmed down since the crazy atmosphere around the Lebrun brothers three weeks ago, and the whole room is cheering on the French doubles competing this morning.
12:35 – To be continued this afternoon
From 12:54 p.m. the first Frenchman enters the competition at the Grand Palais for the para taekwondo and Bopha Kong in the quarter-finals of the -58kg. At 3:45 p.m. Marie Patouillet is in the final of the 500m standing C5 in track cycling and wants to win the first medal for the French delegation. In the evening, all eyes will be on the Défense Arena for the swimming with Ugo Didier from 5:30 p.m.
12:26 – Mateo Boheas and Thomas Bouvais in the quarter-finals
The men’s para table tennis pair won after the fifth set and advanced to the quarter-finals.
12:18 – Marie Patouillet assured of being in the final
It goes to Marie Patouillet who has the second provisional time while on the other side of the track the Dutchwoman Caroline Groot beat her own world record.
12:12 – Fifth provisional time for Heidi Gaugain
It might not go down well for Heidi Gaugain, with the fifth time out of the seven athletes so far in the qualifications. Her real objective on the track will be later in the week with the pursuit.
12:08 – Heïdi Gaugain in the 4th series, Marie Patouillet in the sixth
The two French women will be playing for their qualification for the 500m final in a few minutes. They must finish in the top six times to qualify for the final.
12:01 – Jakobs and Toupe bow out
The two French players lost their first match of the group stage 22-20 in the third set.
11:59 – The start of para cycling on the track
Para cycling on the track begins at noon with the 500m standing C4-C5 and the qualifications in which we find two French women, Heïdi Gaugain and Marie Patouillet.
11:47 – Almost perfect morning in para swimming
Almost all the French participants this morning made it to the finals in para swimming, with the exception of Léane Morceau. We will be following Ugo Didier and Alex Portal in particular this evening for, we hope, the first medals in the discipline.
11:36 – Thomas Jakobs and David Toupe at one set each
In para badminton, the French pair of men’s wheelchair doubles are currently tied by the Japanese Takumi Matsumoto and Osamu Nagashima. The French had won the first set 21-15 but saw the Japanese come back to a set all.
11:32 – Morgen Caillaud and Lucie Hautière eliminated
For their first Paralympic Games, the two French women failed to achieve the feat against the Germans, the favourites in this match. They lost in four sets.
11:20 – Morgen Caillaud and Lucie Hautière come back to one set each
The two French players had lost the first set in this WD14 para table tennis round of 16, but came back to a one-set draw against the number three seeds, Germans Stephanie Grebe and Juliane Wolf.
11:18 – Emeric Martin and Maxime Thomas in the quarter-finals
The two men qualified for the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles by winning three sets to zero against Slovakia’s Peter Mihalik and Boris Travnicek.
11:17 – No feat for Léane Morceau
The Frenchwoman finished with the eighth time in the series and will not be in the final.
11:15 – The last French girl of the morning
Léane Morceau is in lane number eight and will have to beat her personal record to reach the final in the 100m butterfly.
11:10 – Alex Portal qualified without worries
Second place for the Frenchman behind the big favourite in the discipline, the Belarusian Boki. He will be on line number five tonight with the second time in the series.
11:09 – Here we go for Alex Portal
The Frenchman is aiming for a medal in the 100m butterfly, and must already qualify for the final this evening.
11:03 – It’s going well for Emeline Pierre
The Frenchwoman finished third in her series while the American Christie Raleigh-Crossley broke the world record. Emeline Pierre has the sixth time in the two series combined.
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The goal for these 2024 Paralympic Games is quite high for the French delegation, which hopes to break all records as for the Olympic Games. “The goal is mainly gold medals, because that’s what counts most in the table of nations,” recalls Marie-Amélie Le Fur.[…] I was asked if this was not a discounted ambition compared to the Olympic top 5. But we had so neglected performance, we have come a long way. We were 14th in Tokyo; aiming for the top 8 means doubling the number of gold medals, so a real ambition” said Marie-Amélie Le Fur, president of the French Paralympic Committee. As a reminder, in 2021, the French Paralympic delegation won 54 medals, including eleven Olympic titles.