Published on 06/09/2024 19:42
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Paralympics 2024 – Weightlifting: Souhad Ghazouani: “I need to train a little more now”. (France TV)
In the up to 67 kg category, the Northerner finished 7th in the final on Friday. For the first time in six participations, she failed to win a Paralympic medal.
No medal, but no disappointment either for Souhad Ghazouani. A regular in the Paralympic finals since the Athens Games, the 42-year-old Frenchwoman only lifted a 125 kg bar on Friday, September 6 at the Arena Porte de la Chapelle, before two successive failures at 129 and 133 kg. Largely insufficient to reach the podium in Paris, on which we find the Chinese Yujiao Tan (142 kg), the Egyptian Fatma Elyan (139 kg) and the Brazilian Maria de Fatima Costa de Castro (133 kg). At the end of the competition, the weightlifter admitted that she was not hoping for a medal.
“Maybe I didn’t train enough. I knew I wasn’t going to get anything. Even with a 129 kg bar [son record personnel dans cette catégorie]I would not have had the bronze medal“No disappointment for Souhad Ghazouani, who was “from lunch in Los Angeles“. “If I’m still alive, I’ll be there.”she added. For her next Paralympic Games, the Lille native understands that she must “practice a little more“and be more”bad“towards herself. Souhad Ghazouani remains with five medals to her name (a gold medal in London in 2012, two silver medals and two bronze medals).
