LIVE. Paralympic Games 2024: Léauté, Boullé… A fireworks display of gold medals ? Live

This Saturday, the The day still promises to be busy on the other side. French medal chances with Leauté or Boullé who are aiming for gold.

The essential

• This Saturday, the day starts strong with para-cycling, a discipline that has brought nine titles and 25 medals since the start of the 2024 Paralympic Games. Alexandre Léauté will try to win a 10th at 9:30 a.m. with the C1-C3 race. In judo, Helios Latchoumanaya will be the chance for the first French title in the discipline with a first fight scheduled for 10:06 a.m. In kayaking, Frenchman R&eacutemy Boull&eacute will try to reach the final in her semi-final scheduled for around 10am. Later in the day, flag bearer Nantenin Keita will compete in the T13 400m. To top off a beautiful day ahead, the French blind football team will try to win gold in their final against Argentina, which brings back painful memories.
• This Friday, Kévin le Cunff and Heïdi Gaugain were beaten in the sprint in para-cycling and took home two silver medals, while Alexandre Lloveras and Yohann Paillot took bronze in tandem. Emiline Pierre won her second medal of the Paralympic Games by taking bronze in the 100m backstroke S10. In the other disciplines, Nathan Petit was beaten in the match for the bronze medal in para-judo. Sofia Pace and flag bearer Nantenin Keita both qualified for their respective 400m T38 and 400m T13 finals.
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The C1-C3 road race has just started from Clichy-sous-bois with Alexandre Leauté who is aiming for a third gold medal in the 2024 Paralympic Games. Thomas Peyroton-Dartet is also at the start.

09:25 – An update on the medal table for the 2024 Paralympic Games

As the 2024 Paralympic Games get ready to to end, there are still two days of competition left and France would certainly like to enter the top 5 of the medal table. Before this day on Saturday, the French delegation occupies sixth place with 65 medals behind Italy which has 63 but three more gold medals. China with 82 gold medals will not be able to be caught by Great Britain and the United States who complete the podium.

09:15 – A busy program

As the first events begin in a quarter of an hour now, they will launch a busy program for this penultimate day of the 2024 Paralympic Games. Alexanfre Léaut&eacute will launch the possible collection of French medals at 9:30 a.m. before the entry into the competition of the flag bearer Nantenin Keita who is competing in the final of the 400m T13 at 10:21 a.m. At the same time several French will be involved in para-judo.

In para-table tennis, Lucas Didier is playing the semi-final of class 9 at 11am against Australian Ma Lin. Also this morning, kayaker R&eacutemy Boullé is playing the semi-final of category KL1 at 10:07am. At the end of the day, the Blues of blind football are playing the final against Argentina and it looks set to be very hot at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

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09:05 – The first events at 9:30

This penultimate day of competition at the 2024 Paralympic Games should get off to a flying start with one of France's stars Alexandre L'aut' who will try to win a third title in these Paralympics. He will be competing in the CI-C3 race.

Welcome to everyone to follow live how the penultimate day of competition at the 2024 Paralympic Games. Another busy day ahead with several chances for French medals. 

06/09/24 – 22:50 – Have a good evening everyone!

Thank you à our internet users for following this day with us, we will meet again tomorrow for the rest of these Paralympic Games

06/09/24 – 22:47 – France moves up to sixth in the medal table

With 65 medals (17 gold, 24 silver and 24 bronze), France has been overtaken by Italy in the medal standings and finds itself sixth, but the Top 8 objective should be reached this weekend.

06/09/24- 22:36 – Tomorrow's chances

A big day on Saturday awaits the French delegation with real chances of medals. Alexandre Leauté will start as favorite in the C2 road race, as will the French relay in handbike. Judoka Hélios Latchoumanaya can aim for gold in the -90kg category, Cyril Jonard will be one of the outsiders in the same competition. R&eacutemy Boull&eacute wants to finish on the podium of Canoe KL1 while Lucas Didier will be in the semi-finals of class 9 para-table tennis.

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06/09/24- 22:21 – The summary

For once, the medal haul for the French team was not good enough for this 9th day of the Paralympic Games. Two silver medals and two bronze medals, it is not plentiful but it is still not bad. As is often the case in recent days, it was para-cycling that offered the best haul to the French delegation. Kevin Le Cunff, titled in the C4-5 time trial 2 days ago, came very close to a double in the road race. He was overtaken by the Ukrainian Dementyev in the last 10 meters. This will leave some regrets for the Frenchman (2nd) who launched his sprint a little too early. His compatriot Heïdi Gaugain experienced the same outcome by finishing in the same time as the legendary Sarah Storey in the women's road race. Another silver medal for the 19-year-old cyclist from Laval, who has won three in total at these Paralympic Games. Before 3 more chances for medals tomorrow, para-cycling has offered 25 medals to France at these Games, or more than a third of the total.

One man's misfortune is another man's gain and in the category B road race, the derailment in the last descent of the De Carvalho-Guichard tandem allowed Alexandre Lloveras and Yoann Paillot to grab a nice bronze medal. In para-swimming, Emeline Pierre snatched third place by two hundredths in the 100m backstroke S10, five days after winning the title in the 100m freestyle in the category.

Flag bearer Nanentin Keita qualified for her 400m T13 final, as did Sofia Pace in the 400m T38 category. The big disappointments of the day came from Nathan Petit (5th in para-judo) and multi-Olympic medallist Souhad Ghazouani 7th in powerlifting. The wheelchair tennis doubles duo of Cattaneo and Houdet melted away against the Spanish pair after a victorious first set.

06/09/24 – 22:12 – Netherlands and Canada back to back

A few minutes before the break, the Netherlands and Canada are back to back back in wheelchair basketball semi-final (33-33)

06/09/24 – 22:02 – Kruger wins discus throw

South African athlete Simone Kruger won the F38 discus throw with a throw of 38.70m, ahead of China's Li 38.64m and Colombia's  Saldarriaga Hernandez 38.36m

06/09/24 – 21:55 – Kavakava delighted with his journey

Seventh in weight, Vitlio Kavakava is very strong ;s happy with his performance “This is my first tournament, I tried to participate in this competition after two years of training. I am really happy even if I am 30 centimeters away from my record. I expected a big audience like this, it was incredible. Thank you to all my family, friends and followers”

After the second 200m semi-final, Sofia Pace should be the eighth and last qualifier for the final thanks to a time of 1:02:37. The final will take place tomorrow

06/09/24 – 21:46 – Kucharzyk wins gold in long jump

Karolina Kucharzyk won the women's T20 long jump competition with a jump of 5.82m. She beat Brazil's de Silva (5.76m) and Turkey's Altin (5.73m)

06/09/24- 21:43 – Sofia Pace proud of the public

Sofia Pace left her impressions on the microphone of France 2 “I gained 1 minute 50 seconds on my personal time, but it's going to be complicated for the final. The spectators are all smiling, full of emotion and full of joy. It's really nice. The public pushes us to give everything and it was great“

06/09/24 – 21:39 – Pace fifth in its series

Sofia Pace, who started fast, finished fifth in her series won by Colombian Moreno in 59,88. Sofia, who started very fast, nevertheless beat her personal best in 1,02,37. It will be complicated for a place in the final.

06/09/24 – 21:38 – Sofia Pace for a place in the final

Sofia Pace takes to the track for her T38 400m semi-final

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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.