Alexandre Léauté: Stroke, record… Who is the French para-cycling star ?

The French para-cycling star could bring home several medals at the Paralympic Games.

Don't look for the Léon Marchand of the Paralympic Games, the costume could fit perfectly to para cyclist Alexandre Léauté. The Frenchman, multiple world champion, could bring back several medals to the French delegation at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. He already has one, the gold in pursuit on Friday, August 30. Flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Games, Alexandre Léaut&eacute éhad left with four medals: silver for the kilometer, bronze in the time trial and the road race and above all, a gold in the individual pursuit where he broke the world record.

Despite a rich list of achievements, the Frenchman was close to depression in 2024 as he explained after the World Track Championships from which he left with 4 medals (he now has 19 including 6 on the road). “Çit really wasn't going well until very recently, he says. The only thing that saved me a little was the bike. But I didn't give up. I wanted to say yes'à everything to not offend anyone. I was afraid of being unpleasant. But I had to get through this, to learn to say 'no'. I ended up understanding that if I didn't do it, it was my body that was going to give in. My head had already given up… I didn't feel legitimate to feel bad, he verbalizes. I'm living a crazy thing, I live from my job, lots of people would dream of being in my place. In my life, everything is extraordinary while I know that, for some, it's difficult to get up in the morning to go to work. I couldn't allow myself to complain."

A stroke at birth

Alexandre Léauté suffered a stroke that partially impaired his motor skills and deprived him of 95% of the power in the right side of his body from birth. " I have had right hemiplegia since birth. It is a more or less severe impairment of motor skills on the right side of the body. right side of my body which causes several deficiencies (spasticity, problems straightening my arm and leg, foot deformation, loss of muscle strength and total insensitivity in my lower and upper limbs)” explained the Frenchman in an interview for Bleus handisport.

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His record

• 2024 – Paralympic Games 2024
• Paris : Medal gold – 3km pursuit C2
• 2024 – Track World Championships
• Rio de Janeiro: Gold medal – 3km pursuit C2/Gold medal – Km C2/Gold medal – Scratch C2/Gold Medal – Omnium C2/Silver medal – 500m CLM C5/Silver medal – Omnium C4
• 2023 – European Road Championships
• Rotterdam:< /strong> Gold Medal – Time Trial/Gold Medal – online race
• 2023 – World Championships
• Glasgow : M&amp ;eacute;gold medal – Pursuit/Gold Medal – Omnium/Gold Medal – Kilometer/Gold Medal – Time Trial/Gold Medal – Online race MC2/Bronze medal – Scratch MC2
• 2022 – World Championships
• Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France): Gold Medal – C2 pursuit/Gold medal – C2 Kilometer/Gold Medal – Omnium C2/Gold Medal – Scratch C2/Silver medal – Speed ​​per team
• Baie Comeau Route (Canada): Silver medal – Time Trial/Gold Medal – Online race C2
• 2022 – European Road Championships
• Austria :&nbsp ;Gold Medal – C2 Time Trial and C2 Road Race
• 2021 – Paralympic Games
• Tokyo :& nbsp;Gold medal – Track race 3000m Pursuit C2/Silver medal – C1-3 Time Trial Track Race/Bronze Medal – Road racing – Time trial C2/Bronze medal – Online road racing C1-3
• 2021 – Road World Championship
• Cascais&nbsp ;: Gold medal – Online race C2/Gold medal – Time Trial C2
• 2020 – Track World Championship
• Milton&nbsp ;: Gold medal – 1km time trial C2/Gold medal – Omnium C2/Silver medal – Pursuit C2/Bronze medal – Scratch race
• 2019 – World Road Championship
• Emmen&nbsp ;: Gold medal – Line race C2/4th place – Time Trial C2