Clap de fin for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games! The cauldron is about to go out, the stadiums are emptying to make way for the closing ceremony... The Paralympics took over from the Olympic Games on August 28, signalling the return of the iconic, sporting and festive spirit of this competition. It was also the first time that the City of Light had hosted the tournament. But all good things must come to an end...
Following an opening ceremony in the heart of the city, from the Place de la Concorde, the leading athletes in the world of handisport competed for medals set in a piece of the Eiffel Tower at iconic Olympic sites, some of which are set against a backdrop of historic monuments.
And what about the French athletes? Want to keep up to date with the latest exploits of the sportsmen and women representing the host country at this year's event? Here's a day-by-day summary of the medals won by France.
On the last day of events at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, few French athletes were competing on Sunday... It has to be said that very few events were held on September 8, the competition ending with powerlifting at 3pm. But the French team did win a medal, with Nelia Barbosa taking silver in the 200m kayak event.
Earlier in the day, Rosa Gangloff attempted to win a medal in the marathon T12 category, but finished in 4th place. Nonetheless, France achieved its medal target with flying colors (75 in all, including 19 gold), placing 8th in the rankings.
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: rankings, medals... how did Team France fare?
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games came to a close on September 8, 2024 with a more than positive result for France, which took home 75 medals, including 19 golds, ranking 8th on the medal table. A result worthy of the ambitions for the French Paralympic team, who now look ahead to Los Angeles 2028 with the desire to do even better! [Read more]
And now it's time for the closing ceremony, which promises to live up to the hype of the Paralympics!
It's the home stretch for the French, as they try to pick up a few more medals before the end! This morning, in the C1-3 road cycling category, the Thomas Peyroton-Dartet/Alexandre Léauté duo tooksilver and bronze. A disappointment, given that they were aiming for gold, but it's worth it! And in the final race of the Games, the H1-5 team relay, our French team took gold as Paralympic champions!
Meanwhile, Rémy Boullé, Paralympic bronze medallist in Tokyo in the KL1 200 m, picked up the same medal in para canoeing at Vaires-sur-Marne! In the afternoon, para judo added three medals to our list of achievements, with bronze for Cyril Jonard (-90kg) and Jason Grandry (+90kg), and silver for Helios Latchoumanaya. We continued with a well-deserved silver medal for Lucas Didier, brother of the swimmer, in para table tennis, single MS9.
France are Olympic cecifoot champions, after an incredible match against the Argentinians, which went to penalties! A great revenge on French soccer, which was very close to our hearts!
For the moment, the cyclists continue their winning streak! Kevin Le Cunff wins gold in the road race, while Heïdi Gaugain also takes silver - her 3rd Paralympic silver medal. Frenchman Gatien Le Rousseau came in 4th. Elie de Carvalho (guided by Mickaël Guichard) took bronze. Another silver medal went to Nathan Petit in judo, while Yohan Peter took third place in fencing. In swimming, Emeline Pierre took bronze, as did the wheelchair tennis tandem of Stéphane Houdet and Frédéric Cattanéo.
The harvest continues on the cycling front: Florian Jouanny wins another gold medal for France in the H1-2 category road race, while in the afternoon Loïc Vergnaud takes silver. Later in the day, Mathieu Bosredon took gold in his turn in the H3 category road race, followed by Johan Quaile in second place on the podium, taking silver. Jean-Louis Michaud' s first Paralympic Games were marked by a bronze medal in the 50m recumbent rifle SH1 event . Among our swimmers, Ugo Didier and Hector Denayer finished second and third respectively in the 200m 4-swim. On the purple track at the Stade de France, Timothée Adolphe won silver, and in fencing, the French team took bronze against Italy in the foil event.
Today, the word to remember is certainly "harvest", and for good reason: the French para-cycling road team treated the French public to some very, very fine performances, with eleven medals won today. The morning began with Elie de Carvalho taking silver with his guide Mickaël Guichard (category B) in the time trial race, followed by Dorian Foulon in bronze in the C5 category.
Shortly afterwards, Gatien le Rousseau followed in the tricolors' footsteps, snatching silver in the C4 category on the same event, just behind Frenchman Kevin le Cunff, who climbed to the top step of the podium! Thomas Peyroton-Dartet also won gold in the men's C3 category, closely followed by Loïc Vergnaud in silver in the time trial (H5 category) and Johan Quaile, Paralympic vice-champion in the H3 category! Mathieu Bosredon rounded off his medal haul by becoming H3 Paralympic time trial champion, just ahead of Johan Quaile. After a medal on the track, Alexandre Leauté repeated his feat, winning gold in his category (C2) - ahead of Florian Jouanny in silver - as didHeidi Gaugain, who again took silver.
The day ended with a bronze medal for table tennis player Fabien Lamirault, 3rd in singles in his category.
It was a small harvest for the French Paralympic team on Tuesday, with no medals won before 5.30pm. However, many were hopeful with the participation of Arnaud Assoumani in the long jump T47 and flag bearer Nantenin Keita in the 100 m T13. Unfortunately, neither of them managed to win a medal in the morning. So it was not until 5.30pm and the para-table tennis semi-final (men's singles MS10) between Matéo Bohéas and Poland's Chojniwski that the first French medal of the day fell. Although Matéo Bohéas was unable to win his way through to the final, he did win a bronze medal- his first of the day.
From that moment on, the meter was running! In para-swimming, Ugo Didier took silver a few minutes later in the 100 m backstroke S9 final at Paris La Défense Arena, delighting the French fans present for the occasion. Already crowned gold medallist in the 400 m freestyle last Thursday, Ugo Didier now adds another victory to his list of honours!
The medals continued to pour in for para-swimming at the end of the afternoon, with Laurent Chardard winning a bronze medal a few minutes later in the 50 m butterfly S6 final.
Finally, Alex Portal, already a double silver medallist and bronze medallist in para-swimming at the Paris Paralympic Games, also lit up the pool at the Paris La Défense Arena on Tuesday in the 200m 4-swim S13. He won a silver medal.
With these four new medals won on Tuesday, France now has 38 medals from the Paris Paralympic Games!
What a day for the French Paralympic team! And it's off to a great start, with a bronze medal for the duo of Faustine Noël and Lucas Mazur, won on Monday morning in badminton. The duo, who had missed out on a place in the final, ended the Games in style in the SL3-SU5 mixed event.
The day continued with two new gold medals: the first in para-triathlon category PTS2, won by Jules Ribstein, and the second by Aurélie Aubert in boccia. A gold medal for the Frenchwoman which she had not expected, having beaten the world's 2nd-ranked player, Singapore's Yee Ting Jeralyn Tan.
And you can imagine that the day didn't end there, as a new crop of medals was collected this afternoon, starting with two duos, Thibaut Rigaudeau and his guide Cyril Viennot, andAntoine Perel and his guide Yohan Le Berre, respectively in silver and bronze in the para-triathlon in the PTVI category. And Alexis Hanquinquant didn't miss out on his Games either, as the current Paralympic champion retained his title by winning gold in the para-triathlon, PTSA category.
In badminton, Lucas Mazur also won gold, retaining his Olympic title. And a big surprise for Charles Noakes, who also won a gold medal in badminton, category SH6. An abundance of medals, we tell you...
The day got off to a good start with Nathalie Benoit' s very first rowing medal of the Games! A bronze medal snatched at the last minute for this para-athlete in PR1 Individual Skiff, who was originally destined for the pentathlon.
While the Olympic athletes had failed to win a single medal, rowing now has a second bronze medal, won by just six hundredths. The PR3 coxed four made up of Grégoire Bireau, Margot Boulet, Candyce Chafa, Rémy Taranto and Émilie Aquistapace came through, neck and neck with Germany. The same medal for this boat as in Tokyo!
If the early afternoon was long, three more medals were added to the day's list, with two new ones in para-cycling track and one in shooting sports! Marie Patouillet wins her second medal of these home Paralympics, but this time it's gold! In the women's C5 pursuit, Heïdi Gaugain finished just behind with a silver medal to boot! A fine record for French cycling in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, which finishes with 7 medals! And there's more to come: we'll be keeping a close eye on road cycling.
Tanguy de La Forest followed up his silver medal on Friday by winning the Olympic title in the 10 m air rifle SH1 mixed event. An emotional victory that left the walls of Châteauroux shaking!
Another gold medal at the start of the evening for our Frenchwoman Emeline Pierre, a former gymnast who converted to para-swimming after dislocating her right elbow, in the 100m freestyle S10, with a personal best in the process! She still has three races to go to try and bring home more podiums!
Come on, one more for athletics! Shot putter Gloria Agblemagnon is quite simply the Paralympic vice-champion in the F20 category, beating her personal best! And it doesn't end there, with Timothée Adolphe 's silver medal in the 400 m, in the T11 category. Not the metal we'd hoped for, but it's still one more medal, along with bronze for Manon Genest in the long jump!
The former para-triathlete brought home the 26th medal for the French delegation and the 9th of the day! A fine harvest for this Sunday, September 1!
The French team continues to make us dream on the first day of the Paralympic weekend. On Saturday, Antoine Praud opened the scoring with a bronze medal in the 1,500 m T46. A fine podium finish for Frenchathletics!
At lunchtime, it was the French table tennis players who stood out. Flora Vautier and Florian Merrien faced off against the Chinese in the mixed doubles semi-final: they lost to the world No. 1s, but went home with the bronze medal. A similar scenario for Clément Berthier and Esteban Herrault: the men's doubles team finished on the third step of the podium after a tough battle with China.
The afternoon also began with some fine podium finishes: in cycling, Alexandre Léauté took bronze after the final of the 1000M C1-3 time trial. Dorian Foulon, meanwhile, won France's third gold medal with a magnificent race in the C5 individual pursuit. He also broke the world record in this morning's qualifying heats. In the C4 pursuit, young Gatien Le Rousseau won bronze from compatriot Kevin Le Cunff.
It seems our French swimmers are all half mermaid: in just one race, the French delegation won two new medals. Brothers Alex and Kylian Portal had us dreaming in the 400 m freestyle, taking home silver and bronze medals respectively. What a pair!
We now have 17 medals: 3 gold, 6 silver and 8 bronze.
Day 2 of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, and a very good day for the French delegation. On a busy day that saw tourists galloping through the rain, the French para-athletes picked up no fewer than 6 new French medals, including a Gold!
The day of August 30 was punctuated by 6 disciplines: para-athletics, para-table tennis, para-sport shooting, para-cycling, para-taekwondo and para-swimming. Although the French didn't shine particularly brightly in the first two events, they did provide us with some marvellous moments of suspense and sport throughout the day.
Starting with the best medal of all, Alexandre Léauté' s gold medal in cycling (individual pursuit 3000m - C2)!
Tanguy de La Forest won a fine silver medal in shooting sports (10m air rifle P Db Mix SH2 - R4). The same goes for Djelika Diallo in taekwondo (-65kg event - K44) and for Hector Denayer in swimming (100m breaststroke event - SB9), who each took a well-deserved second place.
Alex Portal picked up his second swimming medal in just two days of competition. A bronze medal, this time, in the 100m backstroke - S13 event. And Fabien Lamirault and Julien Michaud came away from the MD 14 doubles table tennis event with bronze medals!
Well done to our French team, who have already won 9 Paralympic medals, and see you tomorrow for new adventures (with medals to match, we hope!).
The French Paralympic medal table was opened on the very first day of the competition by Marie Patouillet in the para-cycling events. In the 500m time trial in the C4-5 category, the athlete, who was born with a malformation of the left foot, took silver with a score of 36.7 seconds. Para-cyclist Caroline Groot, representing the Netherlands, won gold with a time of 35.566 seconds.
At the end of the afternoon, swimmer Ugo Didier won the first gold medal for France at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in the 400m freestyle in the S9 category. The Olympic champion, who was born with club feet, took first place on the podium after completing his race in 4'12"55.
Then it was Alex Portal 's turn for the third medal of the day! In the 100 m butterfly, in the S13 category, the swimmer took second place and silver. With a time of 54"38, only one twentieth of a second separated him from gold medallist Ihar Boki.
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: rankings, medals... how did Team France fare?
