LIVE. Paralympic Games 2024: de Carvalho in silver, medals galore in para cycling! Live

This day of Wednesday, September 4th brings a shower of medals ;edailles à the French delegation.

The essentials

• Para road cycling returned this Wednesday, September 4th with the time trial events and the medals are piling up! Heïdi Gaugain took the silver medal, Alexandre Léauté the gold and Florian Jouanny in C5, C2 and H2 this morning. In the afternoon, Elie de Carvalho took the silver medal in category B with Mickael Guichard 
• Dimitri Pavad&eacute also wants to shine in the long jump. The program is also loaded in para tennis, notably with Stéphane Houdet, in para swimming, with Kylian Portal, or in para table tennis with the semi-final of Fabien Lamirault.
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14:31 – The two Frenchmen on the podium in the first intermediate

Good start for Kevin le Cunff and Gatien le Rousseau, 2nd and 3rd after the first five kilometers.

14:26 – Dorian Foulon on the podium in the third intermediate

The Frenchman continues his comeback and is in the top three with nine kilometers to go. Victory seems too far away, however, at forty seconds.

14:21 – Dorian Foulon fourth after the first lap

The Frenchman is in five seconds from the podium and 33 seconds from the lead halfway through the course.

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The French tandem is beaten by twelve seconds by the Dutch tandem. It is still a new medal for para cycling. Alexandre Lloveras and Yohann Paillot finish just off the podium by just 1.4 seconds!

14:07 – Dorian Foulon fourth in the first intermediate

The Frenchman is at 10 seconds from the Brazilian Lauro Cesar Mouro Chaman.

14:02 – Maxime Valet passes the second round of the repêechages

The French sçais apos;imposes 15-6 against Vanderson Luis Chaves. He still needs two wins before playing for bronze.

14:00 – Dorian Foulon is off!

The Frenchman is aiming for a second gold medal at these Games and has made this race a priority.

13:56 – French tandems placed

&At the end of the first round, Elie de Carvalho is second and Alexandre Lloveras fourth. Both are in the running for victory.

13:41 – Two Frenchmen in the 50m rifle final

In mixed para shooting with the 50m rifle prone position, Justine Bève took first place in the qualifications and Tanguy de La Forest seventh. They are both in the final, which begins at 3 p.m.

1:36 p.m. – No medal for Alex Adélaïde

The Frenchman does not pass the 172 kg in para weightlifting and finishes sixth in the final.

1:33 p.m. – It's on for Elie de Carvalho and Mickaël Guichard

The tandem duo sets off for 28.4 kilometers in tandem in classification B (blind and visually impaired athletes).

13:29 – Clémence Delavoipière éeliminée, Brianna Vidé continues

Clémence Delavoipière was é dominated in the first round of repechage by the Hungarian Zsuzsanna Krajnyak 15th &agrav; 4. Brianna Video continues his journey in the repechage after having eliminated Nino Tibilashvili 15-5.

< p>Lucas Didier eliminates Jorge Cardona in the quarter-finals three sets to one and goes to the semi-finals of para table tennis! At worst, it will be the bronze medal.

13:20 – Lucas Didier aims for a medal

In para table tennis, the Frenchman leads two sets to one in the quarter-finals against the Spaniard Jorge Cardona.

13:20 – New medals in para cycling ?

Many French people are back on the road this afternoon from 1:30 p.m., with big ambitions. From 1:30 p.m. Elie de Carvalho accompanied of Mickaël Guichard have big ambitions in tandem B. Next will follow Dorian Foulon in classification C5, Kevin le Cunff and Gatien le Rousseau in C4, Thomas Peyroton-Dartet in C3 and Anne-Sophie Centis accompanied by Elise Delzenne in tandem B. The time trial day will end with hand men's bike and more Frenchmen in the running: Loïc Vergnaud in H5, Joseph Fritsch in H4 as well as Johan Quaile and Mathieu Bosredon in H3.

1:00 p.m. – A Frenchman in the para final swimming

In the morning session of para swimming, few Frenchmen in the running and only one chance for a medal this evening, with Kylian Portal who took the sixth time in the series of 100m freestyle S12.

12:40 – The summary of the morning in para cycling

The first medals of the day came from the road time trial with a new title for Alexandre Láautá, a second place for Heáiuml;di Gaugain and a bronze medal for Florian Jouanny. In the same classification as Heáiuml;di Gaugain, Marie Patouillet finished fifth while Anaáiuml;s Vincent took the same place in the Handbike H1 áagrave; 3.

12:20 – Hard results in wheelchair fencing

Only one Frenchman is still in the running in the main wheelchair fencing draw out of the five present this morning. It is Damien Tokatlian in foil category A. If the French Brianna Vidá and Clémence Delavoipiáre came up against stronger opponents in the round of 16, it was a close call for Ludovic Lemoine against the Italian Matteo Betti. Finally, a big disappointment for Maxime Valet, beaten 15-8 in the quarter-finals by the Chinese Daoliang Hu.

12:13 – Maxime Valet beaten

The Frenchman was aiming for a medal in the wheelchair foil category B, but at best he will get bronze after his elimination in the quarter-finals 15-8 against Doaliang Hu. He goes into the repechage.

12:04 – Flora Vautier eliminated

Facing the reigning vice-world champion Sandra Mikolaschek was in the match but she was unable to conclude on the important points and lost 11-7 13-11 12-10 in the quarter-finals of para table tennis. Another chance at a medal is gone.

11:56 – Flora Vautier trailing by two sets

Çit gets complicated for the Frenchwoman, who loses the second set 13-11 despiteé two set points and finds herself on the brink of elimination in the quarter-finals.

11:46 – Flora Vautier loses the first set

Difficult start for the Frenchwoman, who drops the first set 11-7 against the German Sandra Mikolaschek.

11:43 – Pierre Fairbank qualified

At 100m T53, the Frenchman takes the second place in his series and fourth overall time and advances to the final.

11:38 – Vladimir Vinchon qualified para ériding

The Frenchman is provisionally third in para dressage and is assured of qualification for the individual freestyle event in classification IV.

11:31 – Brianna Vidé and Clémence Delavoipière go into repêchages

The two French riders did not create the feat in the round of 16, beaten 15-5 and 15-2 respectively. 

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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-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.