LIVE. 2024 Paralympic Games: Antoine Praud in bronze, Alex and Kylian Portail qualified for the 400m final, Le Cunff and Le Rousseau will compete for bronze, live

This Saturday, August 31 t, Alexandre Leauté will try to win a second gold medal in these Olympic Games in the C1-3 time trial. Hopes are placed on Portal and Morceau in para -ntation as well as on Foulon. Le Cunff and Le Rousseau will compete for bronze in the 4000m

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• Antoine Praud caused a huge surprise by winning the bronze medal in the 1500m T54 (para-athletics). Alexandre Leauté qualified for the 1000m time trial C1-3 (para-cycling) final. After yesterday's gold medal in pursuit, he is aiming for another title this afternoon but the task looks tough against the Chinese Zhangyi.
• Alex and Kylian Portal qualified for the 400m freestyle S12 final, as did Léane Morceau in the 100m backstroke S12 as did Léane Morceau in the 100m backstroke S12. Le Cunff and Le Rousseau will compete in the small final for the bronze medal in the 4000m pursuit C4 while Foulon is expected in the pursuit C5.
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Bronze medal also for the mixed doubles pair of Florian Merrien and Flora Vautier. The French duo was largely dominated in the semi-finals by the Chinese pair Zhou-Feng, world number 1 (4-11, 9-11, 8-11)

It ended in the semi-finals for the pair Herrault and Berthier in men's doubles (para table tennis), they lost in three sets to the Chinese Yan Liao (11-13, 7-11, 7-11). The French will have the bronze medal, but disappointment prevails.

12:24 – Les Bleus hang on

Les Bleus hang on in the third set against the Chinese (6-7). Herrault and Berthier are much more enterprising

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12:20 – China beats Egypt in goalball

In men's goalball, China took the upper hand over Egypt with a score of 7-4

12:18 – The Chinese rule

The two French pairs are no match for each other in these table tennis semi-finals. In men's doubles, Herrault and Berthier are trailing by 2 sets (11-13, 7-11), as are Merrien and Vautier in mixed doubles (4-11, 9-11)

12:12 – Merrien and Vautier dominated

The XD17 mixed doubles pair, Merrien and Vautier, are still struggling against their Chinese counterparts Zhou Feng (4-11, 2-5). The task looks complicated for the Blues.

12:10 – Herrault and Bertier drop the first set

Still in para-table tennis, in the MD14 men's doubles semi-final, the pair Herrault and Bertier dropped the first set against the Chinese pair Yan Liao while they had two set points (13-11)

12:07 – 7-2 for the Chinese

The Chinese pair dominates the first set, 7-2. Vautier and Merrien must react

12:02 – Merrien and Vautier in place for the semi

The French mixed duo, Flora Vautier and Florian Merrien (19 and 39 years old) who were impressive against the Koreans in the quarter-finals will try to upset the odds in the semi-finals. They will face the world number ones, the Chinese Zhou Ying and Feng Panfeng

11:55 – Le Cunff and Le Rousseau will face each other in the small final

Kevin Le Cunff and Gatien Le Rousseau will face each other this afternoon in the small final of the 4000m individual pursuit C4. A bronze medal is already assured for the French clan, but the two Tricolores are a little disappointed in the series and would have hoped to do better by qualifying for the final.

11:50 – Atkinson smashes the world record!

Briton Atkinson smashed the world record in the 4000m individual pursuit C4 in 4'17'70. He will be the big favorite in the final against Slovakian Jozef Metelka.

11:46 – Le Cunff impresses!

Kevin Le Cunff achieves the best time of the series in 4'25'27 in the 4000m individual pursuit C4. He passes Le Rousseau, who already seems pessimistic for a place in the final.

11:38 – Le Rousseau smashes his record

In the 4000m individual pursuit C4 series (para-cycling on the track), Gatien Le Rousseau has so far achieved the best time of the 4'25''35 entrants. Magnificent race by the young Breton who shaves six seconds off his personal record. Make way for vice world champion Kevin Le Cunff.

11:32 – It's ten times more than I imagined

Antoine Praud is overwhelmed by the immense fervor and this particular context in this 1500m final, he admits to the microphone of France 2“It's crazy. It's ten times more than I imagined. You can't imagine how happy I am. I've never run in a stadium so full with so many French people who don't even know me. I could have gone for the silver but I had a little drop in speed in the last 50 meters when I took third place"

11:28 – Antoine Praud euphoric!

The Vannois completes the laps of honor at the Stade de France under the cheers of the public to celebrate the bronze medal. The tenth of the Blues in these Paralympic Games.

11:23 – 4 out of 4 in para-rowing

Another ticket composted for a final in para-rowing. In the PR3 mixed double sculls, Laurent Cadot and Guylaine Marchand finished second in the PR3 mixed double sculls repechage race.

What a race by Antoine Praud who finished third in this 1500m T54 final, beating his record by 4 seconds (3'51″). The Frenchman did a crazy last lap to finish behind the Belarusian Iaremchuk and the Australian Roeger

11:12 – 1500m T46 Final

Antoine Praud launches into his 1500m T46 final in a nearly full stadium. The Frenchman has the 6th best time of the sixteen participants. A medal is hoped for.

11:09 – Bouge and Daviet in the final!

Winners of the repêchage in 8'29'61, Perle Bouge and Benjamin Daviet qualified for the PR2 mixed Double Sculls final. The final is scheduled for tomorrow

11:03 – Debrunner crowned over 5000m

Swiss Catherine Debrunner took first place in the 5000m T54 in para-athletics. Thanks to à with a time of 10'43'&62 she is ahead of the American Scaroni and the Australian Rozario.

10:58 – Leauté Zhangyi redoubt

Alexandre Leauté put the Chinese Li Zhangyi as the big favorite for the 1000m time trial final C1-3 this afternoon "I have a tough opponent today' hui (Li Zhangyu). I broke the world record in my category but that's not enough. After yesterday's medal, I finally slept well, I felt the pressure off"

10:52 – Alexandre Leauté ésets the second best time of the series

Alexandre Leauté achieved the second best time in the 1000m C1-3 time trial series in 1:04:72 behind China's Li Zhang Yu. The Frenchman even set a new world record in the C2 category. Note that the time trial event brings together three categories of disabled people (C1, C2, C3)

10:48 – Peyroton-Dartet achieves the fifth time

In 1 minute 10 seconds, Thomas Peroton Dartet achieves the fifth time in the series. There are four riders left in the running, the mission looks complicated for Thomas for a place in the final.

10:44 – The 6 best times in the final

Only 6 runners will qualify for the 1000m time trial C1-3 final. Thomas Peyroton-Dartet will be the first to start among the French, facing the big Chinese favorite Li Zang Yu.

10:37 – The French in the running in the 1000m time trial C1-3

Alexandre Leauté and Thomas Peyroton Dartet are starting the 1000m time trial C1-3 series. One goal: qualify for the final.

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The goal for these 2024 Paralympic Games is quite high for the French delegation, which hopes to break all records, as for the Olympic Games.  "The goal is mainly gold medals, because that's what counts most in the ranking of nations," recalls Marie-Amélie Le Fur. "[…] I was asked if this wasn't a discounted ambition compared to the Olympic top 5. But we had so much lost in performance, we've come a long way. We were 14th in Tokyo; aiming for the top 8 means doubling the number of gold medals, so a real ambition,'' said Marie-Am&eacutelie Le Fur, president of the French Paralympic Committee. As a reminder, in 2021, the French Paralympic delegation won 54 medals, including eleven Olympic titles.