The 23-year-old athlete, with a cognitive handicap and who was participating in his first Games, completed his lap in 47 seconds 63.
He won the most beautiful medal after a lap. Sprinter Charles-Antoine Kouakou brought his sixth gold medal to the French team at the Tokyo Paralympic Games this Tuesday by winning the 400-meter final in the T20 category, reserved for athletes with a disability intellectual. The 23-year-old sportsman completed the lap in 47 sec 63 ahead of Venezuelan Luis Felipe Rodriguez Bolivar (47 sec 71) and Briton Columba Blango (47 sec 81).
For his first Games, the native of Paris, licensed at the Antony club (Hauts-de-Seine), offered himself the Paralympic title and brings the total of French medals to 33, just two units from the target set. to 35 before the event. It is also the third medal of French adapted sport, the counterpart of disabled sports for people with cognitive disabilities, since Léa Ferney (silver) and Lucas Créange (bronze) had paved the way in table tennis.
Finally, it is the fifth podium in French paralympic athletics after notably the silver medal of the president of the French Paralympic and sports committee Marie-Amélie Le Fur in the long jump (category T64).
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