The Frenchman won his first medal at the Beijing Games on Wednesday.
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After the disappointments of the first days in the biathlon, Benjamin Daviet can finally enjoy. In the para cross-country skiing sprint event, the Frenchman mastered his subject to win Paralympic gold in the standing category on Wednesday March 9, his first title in this discipline.
BENJAMIN DAVIET PARALYMPIC CHAMPION
A final won masterfully by our flag bearer in this standing sprint #AllezLesBleus #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/rPjUE8BpcZ
— Team France (@EquipeFRA) March 9, 2022
Second in qualifying, then first in his semi-final, the flag bearer of the tricolor delegation left only crumbs to his opponents (3’07 “5). He is ahead of the German Marco Maier (+1 ” 3) and the Ukrainian Grygorii Vovchynskyi (+1″8). “It’s good, my Games are successful. The rest will only be a bonus. I will be more relaxed for the future. The race was really hard, the day was long. It’s so much happiness”, reacted moved to the microphone of France Télévisions Benjamin Daviet after his victory.
Benjamin DAVIET is Paralympic champion in Sprint
The standard bearer wins his final and wins the 4th Paralympic title of his career
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After skipping the 20 kilometer classic on Monday where he won silver in Pyeongchang in 2018, Benjamin Daviet thus launched his Games on Wednesday on cross-country skiing with the sprint. And his revenge is all the more beautiful as the Frenchman has been titled in one of the disciplines which has been the least successful for him before today.
In Sochi in 2014, the native of Annecy finished in 7th place. Then four years later, he had skipped the test. On Wednesday, on the sticky snow of Zhangjiakou, Benjamin Daviet therefore added the most beautiful lines to his list.