LIVE. Paralympic Games 2024: Djelika Diallo in the final assured of a medal … Full house for the French! Live

The gold of Léauté, the silver medals of Tanguy De la Forest or Hector Denayer but also the bronze of the table tennis players and Portal, the French delegation is in heaven. The best is yet to come with the para taekwondo final of Djelika Diallo.

The essential

• For this second day of the Paralympic Games, the highly anticipated Alexandre Láautá was crowned Paralympic champion in the individual pursuit by crushing the competition. In para shooting, Tanguy De la Forest, five-time world champion, won the silver medal. In para table tennis, the pair Fabien Lamirault and Julien Michaud won bronze while in para swimming, Hector Denayer won a beautiful silver medal in the 100m breaststroke. Alex Portal won his second medal. This time she is in bronze. 
• Djelika Diallo assured of a medal will try to take the gold. 
• In mixed doubles, Flora Vautier and Florian Merrien qualified for the semi-finals and ensured an incredible medal on Saturday.
• Follow all the news and results from the Paralympic Games 2024.

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20:29 – Defeat in two sets for Guilhem Laget

6-4, 6-4 for Ben Bartram who leaves the competition Guilhem Laget. 

20:28 – Wen Xiaoyan logically crowned, Mandy François-Elie 5th

Paralympic champion in the 100m in the T37 category, sprinter Mandy François-Elie was too tight with her time of 28"20 to hope to leave with the most beautiful metal in the 200m T37. Wen Xiaoyan, the favorite, is unsurprisingly the Paralympic champion with her time of 25"86. She sets the Paralympic record. 

20:21 – The 200m is about to start

Mandy François-Elie is on the starting line. She is aiming for the title in a race that is very tough. 

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20:16 – The Mandy François-Elie final is coming soon!

Awaited by the Stade de France crowd, Mandy François-Elie should soon be arriving on the track for her 200m final

20:13 – Canada has tamed France

Yet ahead of At half-time, the French wheelchair basketball team was unable to maintain its lead at the end of the match. The Blues lost 83-68. 

20:11 – The volleyball girls got off to a bad start

In sitting volleyball, the French are well behind in their first group match. The Italians already have a lead of more than ten points in the first set. 

20:09 – Aurélien Fabre does not imitate Aurélie Aubert and bows

It happened narrowly for Aurée Aubert in boccia face à Amagoia Arrieta. Alas, ça didn'smile at all. Aurélien Fabre defeated by the Brazilian Iuri Silva (6-2). 

20:07 – Joussaume's terrible defeat

Thierry Joussaume lost by just one point in the last 16 of para archery final against Abbas Khadim (141 -140).

Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault will be medalists. This is the new good news of this evening for the French clan. The para table tennis players beat William Bayley and Martin Perry with difficulty. A victory in 5 sets.

He is not yet a Paralympic champion, but Alex Portal is once again leaving with a medal. It is the bronze medal, therefore won in the men's 100m backstroke S13. 

19:51 – Alex Portal at the start of the 100m backstroke

Para swimmer Alex Portal, who has already won a silver medal, has just launched into the final of the men's 100m backstroke S13. 

For her first Paralympic Games at the age of 19, Djelika Diallo defeated Yao Yinan. The Frenchwoman will have a medal no matter what, the question is what color the metal will be. The final is scheduled for around 10:30 p.m.

19:39 – Djelika Diallo sets the Grand Palais alight!

Djelika Diallo flies away! She has turned the situation around. There is less than a minute left in the fight.

19:37 – 2 sets to 1 in para table tennis

The pair Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault are close to a place in the semi-finals which is however still far from being acquired. William Bayley and Martin Perry took the 3rd round. 

19:34 – Second meeting for the Blues of wheelchair rugby

France versus Australia. This is the poster for the second meeting of the Blues in wheelchair rugby.

19:31 – The Grand Palais behind Djelika Diallo!

The vice-champion of Europe in para taekwondo, Djelika Diallo will try in the K44 category of -65kg to get a place in the final.

French record, best time, second world performance of the year in 1'05'90, Hector Denayer dazzled the Parisian pools during his final of the 100m breaststroke. The Frenchman is now the Paralympic vice-champion in the SB9 category. The Paralympic champion is none other than the Italian legend Stefano Raimondi who achieved a time of 1:05:28.

19:13 – A new medal in para swimming ?

It's time for the final for Hector Denayer who hopes to have a medal at the end of the 100m breaststroke final.

19:06 – Berthier and Herrault towards the last four ?

The French Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault play against the British William Bayley and Martin Perry for a place in the semi-finals in doubles MD14.

19:04 – Les Bleus ahead of half-time

The French wheelchair basketball team went into the locker room leading by two points (41-39). 

18:58 – Guilhem Laget on the Chatrier

It's the last match of the evening on the central court at Roland-Garros. Guilhem Laget faces the British Ben Bartram in his first match.

18:51 – Faycal Meguenni loses

Opposed to Mario Sayes, boxer Faycal Meguenni lost his match 5-2.

Fabien Lamirault and Julien Michaud fought hard but the French were less strong than the Korean pair Yeongjin Jang and Sung Joo Park in this para table tennis semi-final. The French team still won a bronze medal, the sixth for the French team in these Paralympic Games and the first for table tennis.

18:37 – Aurélie Aubert off to a good start

Boccia champion Aurelie Aubert is leading in her BC1 individual match. She wins 2-0 against her Spanish opponent Amagoia Arrieta. 

18:34 – The Lamirault – Michaud pair lose ground again

The third set is in favor of Yeongjin Jang and Sung Joo Park (11-6) in para table tennis. 

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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 objective is mainly gold medals, because that is what counts most in the ranking of nations," recalls Marie-Am&eacutelie Le Fur. "[…] I was asked if this was not a discounted ambition compared to the Olympic top 5. But we had so much deserted the performance, we came back from far. We were 14th in Tokyo; aiming for the top 8 means doubling the number of gold medals, so a real ambition,'' launched 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.