Thanks Marion. Because you have to thank in life the people who kindly guide you, the controllers of your sky. As a child, Romane had tried judo and then horse riding. And then one day, an educator from Sessad (Special Education and Home Care Services), Marion, “told my parents about it”. Disabled athletics. This sport practice which, among other things, develops motor coordination and social ties.
“I wanted to try to see and it opened me up. I met other people, I accepted my handicap”. Which ? Motor dyspraxia. “This means that she has no notion of representing her body in space”, indicates Julien Lemardelé. A disorder, associated with mild hemiplegia, which classifies her in the T38 category, specifies her coach.
“It’s a handicap from birth,” explains Romane. I find it difficult to do things. But I live with it and it is thanks to athletics that I understood that I was not the only one. »
11th World Para Athletics Championships
Paris’23. 1,350 athletes and 107 nations. Third edition on French soil (after Villeneuve-d’Ascq in 2002 and Lyon in 2013), the world para-athletics championships – Paris’23, began on Saturday and will end on Monday July 17, at the Charléty stadium. Second international event behind the Paralympic Games (which will take place from August 28 to September 8, 2024 in Paris), the competition brings together some 1,350 athletes from 107 nations, including 35 French athletes divided into 29 representatives of the French Handisport Federation including Romane Boulard ( category T38) trained by Julien Lemardelé (photo Frédéric Marquet) and 6 licensees of the French Federation of Adapted Sport including Gaël Geffroy (category T20).
It’s at the ASM (see below) that Romane hatched. In a disabled sports section “super nice, a real group, a family”, she ignites. And under the guidance of an educational technician. Thanks again. “Julien is a very good coach, it’s thanks to him that I’m here. I know he is there. I’m lucky to have him.”
Sixth world perf!
At the club, where the practice of athletics dispels her anxiety, the Clermontoise breaks the shell, flourishes. She pushes the doors of the international after multidisciplinary debut in 2015. “I tested the 100m, the 200m, the 400m – that’s hard and I stopped – the length and the weight, I liked. But I looked for where I could be selected”.
I am smiling, joyful, listening, but rather stubborn.
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His sporting qualities give substance to his ambition, but not only; his sense of listening, his total involvement too. “She is hardworking”, admires Julien Lemardelé. Perhaps a variant of what her student judges, she, as the worst of her faults: “I am rather stubborn”, she readily admits with her cheerful smile. His keys to success for the competition.
“I like doing competitions, we talk to each other, it brings me a lot of things. I discovered myself, it helped me”, appreciates Romane. More in feeling than telling anecdotes of all kinds. His participation in the 2022 European Paralympic Youth Games in Finland, the athlete sums it up in four words that say so much: “a very nice experience”.
At the World Para-Athletics Championships in Paris, the asemist sprinter-jumper was looking for two tickets. “The 200m was a bit high, admits the coach, but the contract is long there”. Filled with France Handisport in Saint-Etienne. By falling to 4.24 m in the sandbox of the Lux stadium, on June 9, the Clermontoise even achieved the 6th world perf. Coach. Julien Lemardelé, Romane Boulard’s coach since 2015. Photo Rémi Dugne.
“She quickly gets emotional. When she learned of her selection, she was immediately in tears, ”he reveals. At the same time as the field of its possible: “A gamble is doable, a world podium. And if she does, she has an 80% chance of going to the Paralympic Games. It is the objective “.
Answer on the 13th, in Charléty, a stadium she knows well. “She did four competitions there. We tamed the place, ”explains Julien Lemardelé. As a competitor, Romane sets the bar high. “My objective will be to beat my record, to do about 4.60m, and to take advantage of the event. Then there will be the Paris Games in 2024, another dream”.
Romane Boulard in a nutshell.
Born May 3, 2001 in Beaumont; 1.70m. Works at the ESAT du Brézet. Club: ASM Handisport since 2015. Disability: cerebral palsy (T38). Multi-medalist in the French championship in long jump, shot put and 60 m.
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ASM Handisport and adapted sport
ASM. A training group lived like a family. Photo by Fred Marquet.
Created in 2008, the Handisport section (for a physical or sensory handicap) of the Association Sportive Montferrandaise was supplemented by an affiliation in Adapted Sport (for a mental handicap) in 2015. It is chaired by Henry Laniray and brings together 137 licensees around 7 sports activities in the two federations: athletics, wheelchair rugby, wrestling, judo, tennis, boxing and multisport. The athletics section is the largest with 23 athletes, 19 of whom compete. It also had 19 participants in the last French championships in Saint-Etienne, on June 10 and 11, making ASM the most represented club in France. Julien Lemardelé is the trainer and sports director. Training takes place at the Stade de la Gauthière (Monday and Friday) and at the Stadium Pellez (Tuesday and Thursday). His pupil, Romane Boulard, thrives within a group experienced as a family. After Nicolas Bompard (visually impaired, category T12), 9th in the marathon in London in 2019, she is the second Montferrand athlete to compete in the world athletics championships.
One number: 2
The number of Auvergnats retained in the French selection at the world para-athletics championships in Paris: the Clermontoise Romane Boulard (length, Thursday July 13) and the Montluçonnais Gaël Geoffroy (1,500 m, Monday July 17).
Francis Laporte
2023-07-12 09:08:29
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