Another day of the Paralympic Games this Monday, September 2, with gold medals still awaited. The essentials Live Solène Sache finishes with the ninth time in the SB4 100m breaststroke heats, and does not advance to final. La Française finishes at sixth place in the PTS2 classification para triathlon. The Frenchwoman did the work in the series to qualify for the final for the 100m SB14 classification with the 5th time. Athletes, spectacular performances, disciplines… Find images from the 2024 Paralympic Games The Frenchman wins 3-0 in his eighth final of para table tennis against the Argentinian Elias Romero. The Frenchwoman wins the first medal in the history of French boccia and it is gold! She wins 5-4 in the BC1 final. The Singaporean returns in this final, but Aurélie Aubert still leads by two points before the last set. The Frenchman is playing for a place in the quarter-finals against the Argentinian Elias Romero. He leads one set to zero. The Frenchwoman is in the final of the Boccia category BC1, and is currently leading 5-0. The Frenchwoman lost a place in the second round of cycling in classification PTS2. The Frenchman crosses the line alone on the Alexandre III bridge and wins the Paralympic title in the PTS2 classification. It is the first medal for French para triathlon. The Frenchman comes out on top of the cycling session, with a lead of more than 45 seconds over the second-place finisher and more than a minute and fifteen minutes over the third-place finisher. A tough blow for Ugo Didier, also 4th in his heat and who does not go through to the final for eight centimes. Çit risks being complicated; to qualify for the French, seventh provisional time while there is still one series left. The two Frenchmen are competing in the 50m freestyle, in the 2nd and 3rd series respectively. They will have to swim fast this morning in a discipline with a high density. After silver three years ago, Lucas Mazur and Faustine Noël won the match for the bronze medal and will be on the podium! They beat the Indonesian pair 21-14 21-16. The Frenchman is perfectly launched towards a Paralympic title after swimming. He is first at the end of the first round of cycling. In the bronze medal match, the French pair just won the first leg 21-14. It could be the first medal of the day that could fall, with Jules Ribstein aiming for gold in the PTS2 classification. No medal for the first Frenchman of the day in para triathlon. Louis Noël finished in fourth place, far from the podium. The Dutchman won the first triathlon of the day ahead of the Austrian Brungraber and another Austrian, Geert Schipper, reigning world champion. The Dutchman started the para cycling tours, three of them, before being crowned once again Paralympic champion. In the women's race, Australian Lauren Parker leads the way in handbike, ahead of Mexican Brenda Osnaya Alvarez and Canadian Leanne Taylor. The Frenchwoman Mona Francis is currently eighth. The Italian is followed by the Né Irishman Jetze Plat, who is 20 seconds behind à four laps of the end of triathlon PTWC. A new big day for the Blues ? The triathlon events kick off the hostilities and several medals are expected, notably with Jules Ribstein who is taking part in the PTS2 Triathlon at from 9:30 a.m. Discover a focus on all the sports of the Paralympic Games with the rules, classification and program of events The objective 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-Amélie Le Fur, president of the French Paralympic Committee. As a reminder, in 2021, the French Paralympic delegation won 54 medals, including eleven Olympic titles. 
11:35 – No final for Solène Sache
11:28 – Cécile Saboureau 6th à arrival
11:24 – Assya Maurin Espiau qualified
11:18 – Nicolas Savant-Aira qualifies
11:04 – Aurélie Aubert still leads 5-3
10:59 – Nicolas Savant Aira in the running for para table tennis
10:50 – Aurélie Aubert in the running for a title
10:46 – Cécile Saboureau 6th after the second round
10:14 – Jules Ribstein still in the lead
10:12 – No Frenchman in the 50m S9 final
10:09 – Hector Denayer 4th in his series
10:03 – Hector Denayer and Ugo Didier in the pools
09:51 – Jules Ribstein in the lead
09:41 – Lucas Mazur and Faustine Noël win the first set
09:33 – Start of the second para triathlon
09:29 – Louis Noël fourth
09:16 – Jetze Plat Paralympic champion
09:09 – Jetze Plat still in the lead
08:51 – Australian Lauren Parker in the lead
08:42 – Romele in the lead in the first para triathlon
08:30 – The triathlon events kick off the day
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ByTeilor Stone
Sep 2, 2024
By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116