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Paralympics 2024 – Cycling: relive Florian Jouanny’s victory in the road race
Paralympics 2024 – Cycling: relive Florian Jouanny’s victory in the road race
(Paralympics 2024 – Cycling: relive Florian Jouanny’s victory in the road race)
The French rider won the road race (category H1-2) and won the 16th gold medal for the French delegation on Thursday in Clichy-sous-Bois.
He held his own and set the record straight. “Tomorrow will be another day”, had predicted. Particularly disappointed after his bronze medal in the time trial the day before, Florian Jouanny retained his Paralympic title on Thursday, September 5, in the road cycling race, category H1-2, for handbike. The Isérois thus won his fifth career medal at the Games, after winning in style in 1h20’18” ahead of the Spaniard Sergio Garrote Munoz (+22”) and the Italian Luca Mazzone (+7’40”).
Initially in control and slightly behind his Spanish rival, the reigning 2023 world champion in the discipline then accelerated, in the final loop, to take off and win at the end of a nice solo show. This is the twelfth trinket in two days for French cycling and above all the 16th Paralympic title for France, which provisionally passes the Netherlands in the medal table (4th).