Alex Portal wins silver medal in 100m butterfly

Alex Portal, one of the figures of French para-swimming, brought France its third medal on Thursday evening.

French para-swimming holds its own. After Ugo Didier’s first title at the end of the afternoon, Alex Portal won a new medal for the French clan by finishing 2nd in 54”38 in the 100m butterfly S13 (ccomplete ecity or significant visual impairment)at Paris la Défense Arena, Thursday August 29. Triple reigning world champion after sparkling worlds in 2023 in Manchester, the eldest of the Portal siblings added another trinket to his Paralympic record, three years after shining in the pools of Tokyo (silver in the 200m medley, bronze in the 400m freestyle).

Second in his heat this morning, one second behind the Belarusian Ihar Boki, who won the title, the Parisian raised his game to secure a place on the podium, and the second medal for the French delegation in para-swimming. Following in the wake of the Belarusian throughout the race, he only missed out on the gold medal by 25 hundredths of a second (54”13 for Boki), improving his personal best by more than a second. The Spaniard Enrique Alhambra Mollar completed the podium (56”27). Like his roommate Ugo Didier, Alex Portal will be aiming for other medals in these Paralympic Games, in the 50m freestyle, the 200m medley and the 400m freestyle.