canoeing, cycling, judo, table tennis, all the French medals this Saturday – Libération

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In the Bondy forest, on the Vaires-sur-Marne lake or at the Stade de France, the chances of French medals are almost everywhere on this penultimate day of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Libé follows the tests and tells you about all the tricolor charms.

In canoeing, Rémy Boullé fishes for bronze

Rémy Boullé wins bronze in paracanoeing, in the 200m event, category KL1. The thirty-year-old and former soldier repeats his result from Tokyo in 2021. After dominating the semi-final, he finished third in the final, behind the Brazilian Luis Carlos Cardoso, and the Hungarian Peter Kiss, who established a new Olympic record at 44 seconds and 55 hundredths. Rémy Boullé ate the 200 m of the Vaires-sur-Marne race course (Seine-et-Marne) in 47 seconds and 01 hundredths.

In cycling, Thomas Peyroton-Dartet and Alexandre Léauté put silver and bronze in the bag

In the last kilometers of the road race, in road cycling (category C1-3), this Saturday, September 7 morning, three men broke away: the French Alexandre Léauté and Thomas Peyroton-Dartet, already medalists in the cross-country race. shows, and the British Finlay Graham. The latter, double world champion, won in the sprint ahead of Thomas Peyroton-Dartet. Alexandre Léauté took third place. More information here.

The Bosredon, Jounny and Fritsch handbike relay in gold

Unsurprisingly, the tricolor relay flew over the handbike final this afternoon on the roads of Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis). Mathieu Bosredon, already twice Olympic champion this week (in time trial and in road race), was accompanied by another golden Frenchman, Florian Jouanny (line race), and Joseph Fritsch, who had to abandon his previous race, after breaking his bike by missing a turn. The French completed the nine laps of 1.8 kilometers with more than a minute ahead of the Italians. From Paris 2024, the blue para-cycling delegation leaves with 28 medals, including 10 gold, between the track and the road.

In table tennis, Lucas Didier wins silver

The feat did not take place, or at least not until the end. For his first participation in the Paralympic Games, Lucas Didier, 22 years old (brother of Ugo, multi-medalist in swimming) still won the best medal of the French para-table tennis delegation: silver, leaving first place to Belgian Laurens Devos. The Frenchman said he hoped to “shake him up, at least, a little bit”. We didn’t really see it: shortly after 5 p.m., Laurens Devos won in three sets (9-11; 7-11; 7-11) and won his third consecutive Paralympic gold medal . More information here.

Para-judo veteran Cyril Jonard wins bronze medal

He won gold twenty years ago in Athens, here is judoka Cyril Jonard tanned in Paris. The 48-year-old fighter beat Uzbek Turgun Abdiev on ippon in the -90 kg J1 category. The deaf and blind paraathlete had already won silver in Beijing in 2008. The dean of the French judi delegation now holds a Paralympic medal in each metal.

Jason Grandry offers a new bronze medal to French para judo

Less than 30 seconds. This is the time it took Jason Grandry to win, by one ippon, his match against the Turk Onur Tastan, over 90 kilos. The French judoka, who competes in the J1 category (reserved for blind people), takes bronze, only a few minutes after his compatriot Cyril Jonard, also third (-90 kilos), in front of an Arena Champ-de-Mars always full and inflamed. At the microphone of France Télévisions, Jasons Grandry recalled that his Paralympic podium – for his first participation in the Games – is the result of “8 years of work”.

Helios Latchoumanaya wins silver in parajudo.

After the silver of Sandrine Martinet on Thursday, and the bronze medals this morning of Cyril Jonard and Jason Grandry, Helios Latchoumanaya finished second in category J2, in the -90 kilos, failing against the Ukrainian Oleksander Nazarenko. The 24-year-old French judoka aimed higher, after his bronze medal in Tokyo, he who wanted to write «[sa] own story and, perhaps, one day, become one of the greatest para-judokas of all time.

Update : at 7:15 p.m., with the addition of Helios Latchoumanaya’s silver medal.