Published on : 28/08/2021 – 03:22
Triathlete Alexis Hanquinquant brought the French team its third gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games by winning Saturday, August 28 in the PTS4 category of the triathlon. Triple world champion (2017, 2018 and 2019), the 35-year-old tricolor is the only competitor to record a time under the hour (59 min 58) and is almost four minutes ahead of his Japanese pursuer Hideki Uda in this event. featuring 750 meters of swimming, 20 kilometers of cycling and 5 kilometers of running. Victim of an industrial accident at the age of 24, Alexis Hanquinquant ended up choosing three years later to amputate his right leg, crushed by a construction machine. Already a high-level athlete before his accident, he was titled French full contact boxing champion in less than 86 kg.
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