They were three strongmen to be able to put the tricolor delegation on the right wave at the Parachute World Championships, June 12-18, 2022, in Madeira (Portugal). After a lackluster record at the Tokyo Paralympics, Alex Portal, Laurent Chardard and Ugo Didier hit their target, delivering 10 of the 12 medals collected by the Blues. with Two world champion titles and 14th in the country standings, the French continue to advance with the Paris 2024 Games in their sights.
With 12 medals and the athletes achieving their best performance, it is an encouraging record. Sami Al-Jedary received the sports director of the disabled swimming pool. At the Tokyo Games, the French returned with five medals (two silver and three bronze), dropping off the 2019 world championships (Nine charms). “We’ve brought the benchmark back. It’s ahead in terms of tournament times and medal table.”Adds Sports Director.
“We are fortunate to have three swimmers in France today who are clearly the driving forces and instilled that team spirit, the culture of overcoming, into the group.”
Sami Al-Jedary is the sporting director of the Bluesin franceinfo: sport
After a disappointing fourth place in the Tokyo Games, Laurent Chardard He does not hide his satisfaction at the end of the worlds. The Reunionese, qHe lost his arm and leg in a shark attack while skateboarding. He won the 50m butterfly (S6) and silver medal in the 100m freestyle (S6). “I I’m so glad I’m in good shape after missing out on games, and I’m excelling at the best of times. She set a European record in the 50m butterfly. That, I’ve been trying to improve for three years, three years I couldn’t, and then finally fell out.” The swimmer confirms.
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witty!! Bruno Roisneau-trained Guyenne Handinages swimmer perfectly mastered the 50-meter Pap S6 for victory as head. At the same time, he broke the European record (31-14). #Yes sir #LaurentIsBack . pic.twitter.com/ajUfvYf7Oq– FFHandisport (FFHandisport) June 18 2022
For Alex Portal, the medal harvest continues. Swimmer Evelyn, a two-time medalist in Tokyo, took advantage of the scarecrow’s absence Igor Buki to win four medals in Madeira: the title in the 200-meter medley (SM13), silver in the 100-meter butterfly and 400-meter butterfly, and bronze in the 100-meter butterfly.
dedicate to @a_portal1202 on 200m 4N S13
pic.twitter.com/FS4iovdXvh– Team France (EquipeFRA) June 18 2022
The third “knight”, Ugo Didier, made a money raid. The 20-year-old became the vice world champion in the 100m, 400m, 200m medley and 100m backstroke by improving his times. Ugo swam under the world record in the 100m backstroke (1’00”42), although Italian Simone Parlam also set a new world record (59”72)”, sSami mural highlights.
Les Bleues also won two other promising medals. Annale Roulette won silver in the 100m backstroke (S10): “It’s her first really important international medal and it will open her psyche, show her that she can win, and get on the podium. That’s what we have to keep developing in the swimmers, they are still a little bit limiting sometimes in the big events. No more procrastinating”As Sami Al-Jari explains. At the age of 18, Solène Sache snatched a bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke (SB4) at her first international reference tournament.
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A beautiful swimmer’s revenge from Les Sables d’Olonne, very present in this final of the 100m Backstroke S10. A deserved place as Vice World Champion (1’09”83), who comes to embody all the work committed to Nile Roulette for 3 years! pic.twitter.com/w4QASgV3Fv– FFHandisport (FFHandisport) June 18 2022
Although France ranks only 14th in the country standings, far behind Italy with 64 medals in 27 titles, it made an important step in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. In Rio, in 2016, France was in Position 32. “We have to stop looking at other countries as inaccessible. This team pulsating and begins to thicken. The balance sheet falls on more heads than before. We are at the right timing, and we are clearly expecting towards Paris.”
The next milestone on the road to Paris: the World Championships in Manchester next year (31 July – 6 August). Mockup test a year before the Olympics. The World Cup stage in Limoges, from May 26-28, will be revealing: “Countries will come and test the infrastructures, the French atmosphere, to take their marks one year after the Games,” Sami Al-Jari concludes.
