Para-cycling: a historic title for Florian Jouanny
After his bronze medal in the time trial, Florian Jouanny won the road race in the H2 category last night. Equipped with a hand bike, he became the first French Paralympic champion on this medium.
He mastered the race from start to finish, relegating his opponents very far from the start. ” The two guys he beats (the Italian and the Spaniard Sergio Garrote Muñoz, editor’s note), they
have been flying over the discipline for two years and relegating the others to light years so he had an exceptional race French team manager Laurent Thirionet told AFP.
Paracycling: Loïc Vergnaud, the unfortunate money
It is a second medal in two days for Loïc Vergnaud, but the French would have liked it to be of another metal. After leading the race in the H5 category, he was narrowly passed by the Dutchman Valize, after a crazy sprint.
This is the 11th medal for French paracycling.
Table tennis: the harvest continues
By teams, the Blues of table tennis succeed in a competition as good as in singles. That night they won three new medals, all of them bronze. Florian Merrien, Maxime Thomas and Nicolas Savant-Aira lost in the semifinals in classes 4-5, as did the pair Thomas Bouvais / Clément Berthier in class 8 and Anne Barnéoud and Thu Kamkasomphou in classes 7-8.
Tennis: Houdet and Peifer came out in the quarterfinals
As we knew, the task was going to be difficult for the two Frenchmen in the quarter-finals of the wheelchair tennis single tournament.
Nicolas Peifer could not do anything against the world number 2, the Briton, Alfie Hewett, 3-6, 4-6. Stéphane Houdet, he was beaten by the world number 1, Shingo Kunieda, 7-6, 6-3.
In short :
Swimming
: three new finals for the Blues. Laurent Chardard will be aligned in the 100m freestyle S6 at 10:14 a.m., Florent Marais in the 400m freestyle S10 at 10:21 a.m. and Ugo Didier in the 200m medley SM9 at 11:39.
Badminton
: the badminton tournament starts at 11 a.m. France has several good medal chances in this sport which is making its appearance at the Paralympic Games.
Athletics
: after his disqualification in the 400m heats, Timothée Adolphe easily qualified for the semi-finals of the 100m T11 (blind). Semi-finals at 2:12 p.m.
France has 38 medals, 7 in gold, 10 in silver and 21 in bronze. She is 13th on the medal table.
