Cock-a-doodle Doo ! French skier Arthur Bauchet won the downhill title (standing category) at the Paralympic Games in Beijing on Saturday, thereby offering the first gold medal to the French team during the competition.
The 21-year-old sportsman, from the Var and licensed at the Briançon ski club, beat the Austrian Markus Salcher and the Swiss Theo Gmuer. A great confirmation for Arthur Bauchet, already multiple world ski champion and who won four silver medals at the Pyeongchang Paralympics in 2018.
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???? ARTHUR BAUCHET PARALYMPIC CHAMPION ??
After leaving Pyeongchang with 4 silver medals, King Arthur won the Holy Grail in the Downhill event: the gold medal??
This is just the beginning ??#AllezLesBleus #Pékin2022 pic.twitter.com/YJgaRZUn9C
— Team France (@EquipeFRA) March 5, 2022
” It’s crazy ! Hearing the Marseillaise, everyone comes for that”, reacted the young skier. “It was still a great fight today. I said I was coming here to have fun. The pleasure he was 100% on the track. What I was missing was the result. »
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This is the first gold medal won by France during these Paralympic Winter Games, which take place from March 4 to 13 in Beijing and in the surrounding mountains.
Bronze for Hyacinthe Delaplace
Marie Bochet, eight-time Paralympic champion, on the other hand, missed his descent (standing category), taking his shoes off after only a few meters. On the other hand, Hyacinthe Delpalace was able to do well and open the medal ball on the descent in the visually impaired category, winning the bronze medal with his guide Valentin Giraud-Moine.
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???? THE BRONZE FOR HYACINTHE DELEPLACE??
Our para skier and his guide, Valentin Giraud-Moine, won the first medal of the tricolor clan on the Yanqing descent!#AllezLesBleus #Pékin2022 pic.twitter.com/xo4zttAgrL
— Team France (@EquipeFRA) March 5, 2022
He thus materializes a successful retraining after an early career in athletics. Associated with his guide Valentin Giraud-Moine, the native of Villeurbanne was preceded by the Austrian Johannes Aigner, gold medalist, and the Canadian Mac Marcoux. “I would have liked to do better. Only, I didn’t put all the ingredients that I could put two days ago (during training). And it feels direct”reacted Hyacinthe Deleplace after the race.
Aged 32, the athlete had won three gold medals at the world championships in Lillehammer this year. to begin in recent years a retraining in skiing.
“I started this project to experience those moments. I’m a little disappointed, but happy nonetheless.” he said on Saturday.
The Winter Paralympics take place March 4-13 in Beijing and the surrounding mountains.
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