Alexandra Saint Pierre and Flora Vautier want to bring home a medal for the French delegation. The French table tennis players are facing Serbian players Nada Matic and Borislava Peric-Rankovic in the quarter-finals of the para table tennis tournament. If they qualify for the semi-finals, they would be guaranteed a medal. Follow our live stream.
Alexandre Léauté ready to launch his harvest. The 23-year-old track cyclist, who already has four Paralympic medals to his name, arrives in Paris full of ambition, where he hopes to collect five new awards, as he assures France 3 Bretagne.
The start of athletics. The session starts at 10am at the Stade de France. Among the stars of these Paralympic Games, Swiss co-flagbearer Marcel Hug is making his debut in the 800m series. He dominated the Tokyo Paralympic Games, winning four titles in his T54 category for wheelchair athletes. On the French side, Mandy François-Elie will be on the lookout for a medal in the 200m T37 (coordination disorders). She won bronze in this event in Tokyo. Find the full programme for the day here.
Wheelchair tennis begins at Roland-Garros. The wheelchair tennis event begins Friday at Porte d’Auteuil, from 12 noon. In the men’s singles, Frédéric Cattaneo, Guilhem Laget, Gaétan Menguy will defend the French chances. In the women’s doubles, Pauline Déroulède, 20th player in the world, will be associated with Ksenia Chasteau. The other French pair is composed of Charlotte Fairbank and Emmanuelle Morch.
First medals for France. Marie Patouillet opened the French team’s counter on Thursday with her silver medal in the 500-meter C4-5 time trial (amputees or those with functional loss of upper and/or lower limbs) in paracycling on the track. A few minutes later, swimmer Ugo Didier gave France its first Olympic title in Paris in the 400-meter freestyle S9 (swimmers with a slight deficiency in the coordination of arms and legs, significant weakness in one leg, or the absence of limbs). The third medal, a silver, was won by swimmer Alex Portal in the 100-meter butterfly.
Team sports to follow. In goalball, the French men’s team will have to react after its defeat against Brazil, 8-5, on Thursday. The Blues face Iran at 1:15 p.m. In wheelchair basketball, the French men’s team will face Canada for its first match at 6:15 p.m. In wheelchair rugby, the Blues, after their 53-51 victory against Denmark on Thursday, will follow up with a second match against Australia at 7:30 p.m. Finally, in sitting volleyball, the French women’s team will begin its tournament against Italy at 8 p.m.