Triple world champion, four times European champion, five times French champion, the Norman paratriathlete Alexis Hanquinquant, just become honorary citizen of his hometown Yvetot (Seine-Maritime) is the guest of 6/9 France Bleu Normandie this Thursday, October 7. In addition, he returned from the Tokyo Paralympics with the gold medal, the only medal missing from his record.
Unfailing strength
His career, his many titles, his ambitions, Alexis Hanquinquant will return to these subjects from 7:30 am to 8:30 am on France Bleu Normandie. The Yvetotais was decorated knight of the Legion of Honor on September 13 by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.
At 35, Alexis Hanquinquant had part of his right leg amputated when he was 24. He was the victim of an accident on a construction site while he was a mason-tiler in 2010. After about forty operations, he decided to part with part of his right leg in 2013. But he did not let himself go. not cut down.
In 2015, he joined the Yvetot triathlon club then that of Rouen. But especially two years later, in 2017 he won his first titles, champion of France, Europe and the world. Alexis Hanquinquant made history. The culmination of a career in which the Norman never gave up.
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