He will have found her in less than a week. Laurent Chardard, world para-swimming champion, lost his prosthetic arm on Saturday August 20 while surfing off Porge beach. He made a call on social media, which was massively shared and clearly paid off. This Wednesday, August 24, the Pessacais assured to have found his prosthesis.
It was via Facebook messaging that a person contacted him to inform him of the find. But, at first, he didn’t believe it. “The little anecdote is that this person has the same name as me. So it’s true that at first I really thought it was a joke, I don’t have a very common name. .. I checked on the networks and it’s not a scam, it’s really a real real person and it was her nephew who found her at the Grand Crohot beach, about ten kilometers away from where I lost her.”
That’s a good story to tell!
Leg and arm amputee after being attacked by a shark in 2016 in Reunion where he is from, Laurent Chardard had fallen back on a replacement prosthesis, much less efficient. If it did not bother him for the swimming training he does without, it was more annoying in his daily life since this prosthesis allowed him, for example, to carry bags. Since the prosthesis has now been found, concerns have been dispelled. And in addition, launches the athlete, “That’s a good story to tell!”.