Léauté’s gold, Tanguy De la Forest and Hector Denayer’s silver medals, and the table tennis players and Portal’s bronze, the French delegation is in heaven. The best is yet to come with Djelika Diallo’s para taekwondo final.
20:29 – Defeat in two sets for Guilhem Laget
6-4, 6-4 for Ben Bartram who leaves the competition Guilhem Laget.
20:28 – Wen Xiaoyan logically crowned, Mandy François-Elie 5th
Paralympic champion in the 100m in the T37 category, sprinter Mandy François-Elie was too tight with her time of 28″20 to hope to leave with the most beautiful metal in the 200m T37. Wen Xiaoyan, the favorite, is unsurprisingly Paralympic champion with her time of 25″86. She sets the Paralympic record.
20:21 – Imminent departure for the 200 m
Mandy François-Elie is on the starting line. She is aiming for the title in a race that is very high-level.
20:16 – The Mandy François-Elie finale is coming soon!
Awaited by the Stade de France crowd, Mandy François-Elie should soon be arriving on the track for her 200m final.
20:13 – Canada tamed France
Although ahead at half-time, French wheelchair basketball was unable to maintain its advantage at the end of the match. The Blues lost 83-68.
20:11 – The volleyball girls got off to a bad start
In sitting volleyball, the French are well behind in their first group match. The Italians already have a lead of more than ten points in the first set.
20:09 – Aurélien Fabre does not imitate Aurélie Aubert and bows out
It was a close call for Aurélie Aubert in boccia against Amagoia Arrieta. Unfortunately, it didn’t go well for Aurélien Fabre, who was defeated by the Brazilian Iuri Silva (6-2).
20:07 – Joussaume’s terrible defeat
Thierry Joussaume lost by just one point in the round of 16 of para archery against Abbas Khadim (141-140).
20:05 – Berthier and Herrault in the last four will have a medal!
Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault will be medalists. This is the new good news of this evening for the French clan. The para table tennis players beat William Bayley and Martin Perry with difficulty. A victory in 5 sets.
19:54 – New medal for Alex Portal!
He is not yet a Paralympic champion, but Alex Portal once again leaves with a medal. It is the bronze gleaned in the men’s 100m backstroke S13.
19:51 – Alex Portal at the start of the 100m backstroke
Para swimmer Alex Portal, who has already won a silver medal, has just started competing in the final of the men’s 100m backstroke S13.
19:43 – Djelika Diallo’s feat: finalist and assured of a medal!
For her first Paralympic Games at 19, Djelika Diallo defeated Yao Yinan. The Frenchwoman will have a medal no matter what, the question is what color the metal will be. The final is scheduled for around 10:30 p.m.
19:39 – Djelika Diallo sets the Grand Palais alight!
Djelika Diallo flies away! She turned the situation around. There is less than a minute left in the fight.
19:37 – 2 sets to 1 in para table tennis
The pair Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault are close to a place in the semi-finals, which is however still far from being acquired. William Bayley and Martin Perry took the 3rd round.
19:34 – Second meeting for the Blues of wheelchair rugby
France versus Australia. This is the poster for the second meeting of the Blues in wheelchair rugby.
19:31 – The Grand Palais behind Djelika Diallo!
The European para taekwondo vice-champion, Djelika Diallo, will try to get a place in the K44 -65kg category.
19:23 – Huge Hector Denayer Paralympic vice-champion!!
French record, best time, second world performance of the year in 1’05″90, Hector Denayer dazzled the Parisian pools during his 100m breaststroke final. The Frenchman is now Paralympic vice-champion in the SB9 category. The Paralympic champion is none other than the Italian legend Stefano Raimondi who achieved a time of 1’05″28.
19:13 – A new medal in para swimming?
It’s time for the final for Hector Denayer who hopes to win a medal at the end of the 100m breaststroke final.
19:06 – Berthier and Herrault towards the last four?
Frenchmen Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault play against British players William Bayley and Martin Perry for a place in the semi-finals of the MD14 doubles.
19:04 – Les Bleus ahead at half-time
The French wheelchair basketball team went into the locker room leading by two points (41-39).
18:58 – Guilhem Laget on Chatrier
It’s the last match of the evening on the central court at Roland-Garros. Guilhem Laget faces the British Ben Bartram for his first match.
18:51 – Faycal Méguenni bows
Opposed to Mario Sayes, boccist Faycal Meguenni lost his match 5-2.
18:46 – Lamirault and Michaud settle for bronze
Fabien Lamirault and Julien Michaud held on but the French were less strong than the Korean pair Yeongjin Jang and Sung Joo Park in this para table tennis semi-final. The French team still won a bronze medal, the sixth for the French team in these Paralympic Games and the first for table tennis.
18:37 – Aurélie Aubert off to a good start
Boccia champion Aurélie Aubert is leading in her BC1 individual match. She wins 2-0 against her Spanish opponent Amagoia Arrieta.
18:34 – The Lamirault – Michaud pair are losing ground again
The third set goes to Yeongjin Jang and Sung Joo Park (11-6) in para table tennis.
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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.