France at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

France at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
France at the; 2020 Summer Paralympics
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IPC code	FRA
NPC	French Paralympic and Sports Committee
in Tokyo, Japan; August 24, 2021 – September 5, 2021
Competitors	61 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Sandrine Martinet; Stéphane Houdet
Summer Paralympics appearances
	1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;

France will be competing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.^[1]

Paris will host the 2024 Summer Paralympics, and due to that a French segment will be featured in the closing ceremony.

Competitors[edit]

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	2	1	3
Goalball	0	6	6
Judo	0	0	0
Para Taekwondo	1	1	3
Powerlifting	7	8	15
Sitting volleyball	12	0	12
Swimming	2	1	3
Table tennis	4	2	6
Total	29	19	48

Archery[edit]

France is scheduled to compete in three events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Athletics[edit]

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Timothée Adolphe	100m T11
Timothée Adolphe	400m T11
Nicolas Brignone	100m T53
Julien Casoli	100m T54
Pierre Fairbank	100m T53
Rédouane Hennouni-Bouzidi	1500m T38
Dmitri Jozwicki	100m T38
Charles-Antoine Kouakou	400m T20
Louis Radius
Typhaine Solde
Makunda Tresor

Men's field

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Points	Rank
Valentin Bertrand	Long jump T37
Thierry Cibone	Javelin throw F34
Thierry Cibone	Shot put F34
Ronan Pallier	Long jump T11
Dimitri Pavadé	Long jump T64

Women's track

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mandy François-Elie	Women's 100m T37
Mandy François-Elie	Women's 200m T37
Angelina Lanza	Women's 100m T47
Angelina Lanza	Women's 200m T47
Marie-Amélie Le Fur	Women's 100m T64
Nantenin Keita	Women's 400m T13

Women's field

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Points	Rank
Gloria Agblemagnon	Women's shot put F20
Manon Genest	Women's long jump T37
Angelina Lanza	Women's long jump T47
Marie-Amélie Le Fur	Women's long jump T64

Badminton[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
David Toupé	Singles WH1			N/A
Thomas Jakobs	Singles WH2			N/A
Lucas Mazur	Singles SL4					N/A
Meril Loquette	Singles SU5			N/A
Thomas Jakobs David Toupé	Doubles WH1–WH2			N/A		N/A

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Faustine Noël	Singles SL4
Lénaïg Morin Faustine Noël	Doubles SL3–SU5			N/A		N/A

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Lucas Mazur Faustine Noël	Doubles SL3–SU5

Boccia[edit]

Rodrigue Brenek, Sonia Heckel and Samir van der Becken have all qualified via world rankings.

Cycling[edit]

Katell Alençon, Raphaël Beaugillet, Dorian Foulon, Florian Jouanny, Kevin Le Cunff, Alexandre Leaute, Alexandre Lloveras, Elise Marc, Marie Patouillet and Loïc Vergnaud have all qualified to compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games.

Equestrian[edit]

Céline Gerny, Anne-Frédérique Royon, Vladimir Vinchon and Chiara Zenati have all qualified to compete at the Paralympics.

Football 5-a-side[edit]

France qualified to compete in football 5-a-side at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Judo[edit]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Nathan Petit	Men's -81kg
Helios Latchoumanya	Men's -90kg
Sandrine Martinet	Women's -48kg

Paracanoeing[edit]

Nelia Barbosa, Rémy Boulle and Eddie Potdevin have qualified to compete at the Paralympics in the paracanoe.^[2]

Rowing[edit]

France qualified three boats for each of the rowing classes into the Paralympic regatta. All of them qualified after successfully entering the top seven for women's single sculls events and top eight for mixed events at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nathalie Benoit	Women's single sculls
Perle Bouge Christophe Lavigne	Mixed double sculls
Margot Boulet Antoine Jesel Erika Sauzeau Rémy Taranto Robin Le Barreau (cox)	Mixed coxed four

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Shooting[edit]

France entered eight shooters, all male, into the Paralympic competition.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
David Auclair	Mixed P3 – 25m pistol SH1
Christophe Tanche	Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1
Kevin Liot	Mixed R4 – 10m air rifle standing SH2
Alain Quittet	Mixed R5 – 10 m air rifle prone SH2
Tanguy de la Forest	Mixed R5 – 10 m air rifle prone SH2
Cédric Fèvre-Chevalier	Mixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1
Didier Richard	Men's R7 – 50 m rifle three position
Vincent Fagnon	Mixed R9 – 50m rifle prone SH2

Swimming[edit]

France have qualified three swimmers to compete in swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics via the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships slot allocation method & six swimmer via MQS.^[5]^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Laurent Chardard	Men's 50m butterfly S6
Ugo Didier	Men's 100m backstroke S9
Nathan Maillet
Florent Marais
Alex Portal	Men's 200m individual medley SM13
David Smetanine

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anaëlle Roulet	Women's 100m backstroke S10
Claire Supiot	Women's 50m freestyle S8
	Women's 400m freestyle S8
	Women's 100m butterfly S8

Table tennis[edit]

France entered eleven athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Fabien Lamirault & Thu Kamkasomphou qualified from the 2019 ITTF European Championships which was held in Helsingborg, Sweden and nine other athletes qualified via World Ranking allocation.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fabien Lamirault	Individual C2
Stéphane Molliens	Individual C2
Florian Merrien	Individual C3
Maxime Thomas	Individual C4
Nicolas Savant-Aira	Individual C5
Thomas Bouvais	Individual C8
Clement Berthier	Individual C8
Matéo Bohéas	Individual C10
Lucas Edouard Creange	Individual C11

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Isabelle Lafaye	Individual C1-2
Anne Barnéoud	Individual C7
Thu Kamkasomphou	Individual C8
Léa Ferney	Individual C11

Taekwondo[edit]

France qualified two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. All of them are confirmed to compete after entered top six in world ranking.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bopha Kong	Men's –61 kg
Laura Schiel	Women's +58 kg

Wheelchair rugby[edit]

France national wheelchair rugby team qualified for the Games for the games by finishing top two at the 2020 Qualification Tournament in Richmond, Canada.

Team roster

Team event – 1 team of 12 players

Squad	Group stage				Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
France national team	Japan	Australia	Denmark

Wheelchair tennis[edit]

France qualified seven players entries for wheelchair tennis. Six of them qualified by the world rankings, while one of them qualified by received the bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Frédéric Cattaneo	Men's singles
Stephane Houdet
Gaetan Menguy
Nicolas Peifer
Charlotte Fairbank	Women's singles	N/A
Emmanuelle Mörch	Women's singles	N/A

References[edit]

^ "Official Selections at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (in French)". France Paralympique. 19 October 2020.
^ "Three new selections for Tokyo (in French)". France Paralympique. 8 June 2021.
^ "2019 World Rowing Championships". www.worldrowing.com. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ "Tokyo 2021 - Paralympic selection (in French)". Federation Francaise de Tir. 27 July 2021.
^ "Medallists by Event" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 September 2019.
^ "World Championships Slot Allocation Method" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 14 October 2019.
^ "2019 Para Table Tennis Calendar". International Table Tennis Federation. 16 March 2019.

[1] "Official Selections at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (in French)". France Paralympique. 19 October 2020.

[2] "Three new selections for Tokyo (in French)". France Paralympique. 8 June 2021.

[3] "2019 World Rowing Championships". www.worldrowing.com. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

[4] "Tokyo 2021 - Paralympic selection (in French)". Federation Francaise de Tir. 27 July 2021.

[5] "Medallists by Event" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 September 2019.

[6] "World Championships Slot Allocation Method" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 14 October 2019.

[7] "2019 Para Table Tennis Calendar". International Table Tennis Federation. 16 March 2019.

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Competitors[edit]

Archery[edit]

Athletics[edit]

Badminton[edit]

Boccia[edit]

Cycling[edit]

Equestrian[edit]

Football 5-a-side[edit]

Judo[edit]

Paracanoeing[edit]

Rowing[edit]

Shooting[edit]

Swimming[edit]

Table tennis[edit]

Taekwondo[edit]

Wheelchair rugby[edit]

Wheelchair tennis[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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France at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Competitors[edit]

Archery[edit]

Athletics[edit]

Badminton[edit]

Boccia[edit]

Cycling[edit]

Equestrian[edit]

Football 5-a-side[edit]

Judo[edit]

Paracanoeing[edit]

Rowing[edit]

Shooting[edit]

Swimming[edit]

Table tennis[edit]

Taekwondo[edit]

Wheelchair rugby[edit]

Wheelchair tennis[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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