France at the 2020 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	FRA
Country:	France
Year:	2020
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Flagcaption:	Flag of France
Npcname:	French Paralympic and Sports Committee
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Competitors:	61
Sports:	13
Flagbearer:	Sandrine Martinet Stéphane Houdet
Gold:	11
Silver:	15
Bronze:	29
Appearances:	auto

France competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.^[1]

Paris will host the 2024 Summer Paralympics, and due to that a French segment featured in the closing ceremony.

Medalists

See main article: 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				26 August
				27 August
				28 August
				30 August
	Guide: Corentin Ermenault			31 August
				31 August
				1 September
				3 September
				25 August
				26 August
				27 August
				27 August
				28 August
				28 August
				29 August
				1 September
				30 August
				31 August
				1 September
				2 September
	Guide: Corentin Ermenault			25 August
				25 August
				27 August
				27 August
				27 August
	Guide: Céline Bousrez			28 August
				28 August
	Pilot: François Pervis			28 August
				28 August
				28 August
				28 August
				29 August
				29 August
				29 August
				29 August
				29 August
				29 August
				31 August
				31 August
				1 September
				1 September
				1 September
				2 September
				2 September
	Guide: Corentin Ermenault

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. |-|align=left|Daniel Lelou|align=left rowspan=2|Men's individual compound|680|23|
L 137-141|colspan=5|Did not advance|-|align=left|Éric Pereira|655|34|
L 136-138|colspan=5|Did not advance|-|align=left|Guillaume Toucoullet|align=left|Men's individual recurve|620|7|
L 1-4|colspan=5|Did not advance|-|align=left|Julie Chupin|align=left|Women's individual compound|682|8||
W 145-138|
L 139-141|colspan=3|Did not advance|}

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semi-final		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Timothée Adolphe	100m T11	11.12	1 Q	11.06	1 Q	10.90
400m T11			did not advance
Nicolas Brignone	100m T53	15.81	6	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Julien Casoli	400m T54	47.99	3	did not advance
800m T54	1:35.38	4 q	1:39.62	8
1500m T54	3:03.48	3 Q	2:51.69	7
Pierre Fairbank	100m T53	15.09	3 Q	15.41	5
Rédouane Hennouni-Bouzidi	1500m T38	4:05.95	4
Dimitri Jozwicki	100m T38	11.30	2 Q	11.52	4
Charles-Antoine Kouakou	400m T20	48.85	2 Q	47.63
Louis Radius	1500m T38	4:17.19	7
Trésor Makunda	400m T11	51.99	2 Q	51.74

Men's field

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Arnaud Assoumani	Long jump T47	6.89	8
Valentin Bertrand	Long jump T37	5.80	8
align=left rowspan=2	Thierry Cibone	Javelin throw F34	25.69	9
Shot put F34	10.34	8
Ronan Pallier	Long jump T11	6.15
Dimitri Pavadé	Long jump T64	7.39

Women's track

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mandy François-Elie	100m T37	13.48	2 Q	13.51	4
200m T37	27.43	1 Q	27.34
Angelina Lanza	200m T47	DNS		Did not advance
Nantenin Keita	400m T13	57.40	1 Q	57.17	4

Women's field

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Gloria Agblemagnon	Shot put F20	12.62	8
Manon Genest	Long jump T37	4.40	4
Angelina Lanza	Long jump T47	5.17	8
Marie-Amélie Le Fur	align=left rowspan=2	Long jump T64	6.11
Typhaine Soldé	4.60	9

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
David Toupé	Singles WH1	L (6–21, 12–21)	L (11–21, 13–21)		3	did not advance
Thomas Jakobs	Singles WH2	L (10–21, 8–21)	L (9–21, 5–21)		3	did not advance
Lucas Mazur	Singles SL4	W (21–3, 21–7)	W (21–3, 21–7)	W (21–15, 21–17)	1 Q		W (21–16, 16–21, 21–18)	W (15–21, 21–17, 21–15)
Méril Loquette	Singles SU5	W (21–16, 21–17)	L (10–21, 10–21)	L (14–21, 8–21)	3	did not advance
Thomas Jakobs David Toupé	Doubles WH1–WH2	L (11–21, 19–21)	L (11–21, 13–21)		3		did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Faustine Noël	Singles SL4	L (18–21, 13–21)	L (12–21, 6–21)		3	did not advance
Lénaïg Morin Faustine Noël	Doubles SL3–SU5	W (21–12, 22–20)	L (9–21, 10–21)		2 Q	L (9–21, 15–21)	L (16–21, 18–21)	4

Mixed

Boccia

See main article: Boccia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Samir van der Beken	align=left rowspan=3	Individual BC3	L 0-5	3	Did not advance
L 3-4
W 4-2
align=left rowspan=4	Rodrigue Brenek Sonia Heckel Samir van der Beken	align=left rowspan=4	Pairs BC3	W 4-2	5	Did not advance
W 4-3
L 1-7
W 7-0

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Raphael Beaugillet	Men's road time trial B	1:01:23.32	9
Dorian Foulon	Men's road race C4-5	DNF
align=left rowspan=2	Florian Jouanny	Men's road race H1-2	1:49:36
Men's road time trial H2	32:41.62
align=left rowspan=2	Alexandre Léauté	Men's road race C1-3	2:11:06
Men's road time trial C2	37:07.16
align=left rowspan=2	Kévin Le Cunff	Men's road race C4-5	2:14:49
Men's road time trial C5	43:51.87	5
align=left rowspan=2	Alexandre Lloveras	Men's road race B	3:06:14
Men's road time trial B	41:54.02
align=left rowspan=2	Riadh Tarsim	Men's road race H3	2:48:04	7
Men's road time trial H3	45:26.77	10
align=left rowspan=2	Loïc Vergnaud	Men's road race H5	2:24:30
Men's road time trial H5	39:15.16
align=left rowspan=2	Katell Alençon	Women's road race C4-5	DNF
Women's road time trial C4	44:18.59	5
align=left rowspan=2	Elise Marc	Women's road race C1-3	1:17:42	10
Women's road time trial C1-3	29:18.31	12
align=left rowspan=2	Marie Patouillet	Women's road race C4-5	2:23:49
Women's road time trial C5	41:09.24	4
Florian Jouanny Riadh Tarsim Loïc Vergnaud	Mixed relay H1-5	53:03

Track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Raphael Beaugillet	Men's time trial B	1:00.472
align=left rowspan=2	Dorian Foulon	Men's individual pursuit C5	4:18.274 WR	1 Q	W 4:20.757
Men's time trial C4-5	1:05.348	6
align=left rowspan=2	Alexandre Léauté	Men's individual pursuit C2	3:31.817 WR	1 Q	W 3:31.478 WR
Men's time trial C1-3	1:05.031
align=left rowspan=2	Kévin Le Cunff	Men's individual pursuit C5	4:22.257	4 q	L 4:27.997	4
Men's time trial C4-5	1:06.357	8
Alexandre Lloveras	Men's individual pursuit B	4:05.263	4 q	L 4:08.126	4
align=left rowspan=2	Marie Patouillet	Women's individual pursuit C5	3:38.088	3 q	W 3:39.233
Women's time trial C4-5	36.683	4
Dorian Foulon Alexandre Léauté Kévin Le Cunff	Mixed team sprint C1-5	50.344	4 q	L 49.567	4

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Céline Gerny, Anne-Frédérique Royon, Vladimir Vinchon and Chiara Zenati have all qualified to compete at the Paralympics.

Football 5-a-side

See main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Team roster

Group A--------

Seventh place match

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nathan Petit	Men's -81kg	W 10-00	L 00-10	Did not advance		W 10-00	L 00-11	=5
Helios Latchoumanaya	Men's -90kg		W 10-00	L 00-01			W 10-00
Sandrine Martinet	Women's -48kg		W 10-00	W 10-00	L 01-10

Paracanoeing

See main article: Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Nelia Barbosa, Rémy Boulle and Eddie Potdevin have qualified to compete at the Paralympics in the paracanoe.^[2]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rémy Boullé	Men's KL1	51.726	2	48.645	1	48.917
Eddie Potdevin	Men's VL3	53.216	1 FA	53.055	6
Nélia Barbosa	Women's KL3	52.234	1 FA	51.558

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. France qualified three boats for each of the rowing classes into the Paralympic regatta. All of them qualified after successfully entering the top seven for women's single sculls events and top eight for mixed events at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nathalie Benoit	Women's single sculls	11:41.75	2 R	10:56.23	1 FA	11:28.44
Perle Bouge Christophe Lavigne	Mixed double sculls		6 R	8:27.49	4 FB	9:10.85	9
Margot Boulet Antoine Jesel Erika Sauzeau Rémy Taranto Robin Le Barreau (cox)	Mixed coxed four	7:26.21	2 R	7:06.02	1 FA	7:27.04

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. France entered eight shooters, all male, into the Paralympic competition.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
David Auclair	Mixed P3 – 25m pistol SH1
Christophe Tanche	Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1
Kevin Liot	Mixed R4 – 10m air rifle standing SH2
Alain Quittet	Mixed R5 – 10 m air rifle prone SH2
Tanguy de la Forest
Cédric Fèvre-Chevalier	Mixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1
Didier Richard	Men's R7 – 50 m rifle three position
Vincent Fagnon	Mixed R9 – 50m rifle prone SH2

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. France have qualified three swimmers to compete in swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics via the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships slot allocation method & six swimmer via MQS.^{[5] [6]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Laurent Chardard	100m freestyle S6	1:07.69	5 Q	1:07.60	7
100m backstroke S6	1:20.58	7 Q	1:19.00	7
50m butterfly S6	32.76	5 Q	32.29	4
align=left rowspan=3	Ugo Didier	400m freestyle S9	4:15.23	2 Q	4:11.33
100m backstroke S9	1:03.32	4 Q	1:02.20	4
200m individual medley SM9	2:20.86	3 Q
align=left rowspan=2	Nathan Maillet	200m freestyle S14	2:04.44	16	Did not advance
100m backstroke S14	1:08.05	18	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Florent Marais	400m freestyle S10	4:17.78	6 Q
100m backstroke S10	1:01.92	5 Q	1:01.30
100m butterfly S10	59.23	8 Q	57.86	4
200m individual medley SM10	2:27.75	9	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=5	Alex Portal	50m freestyle S13	25.03	11	Did not advance
400m freestyle S13	4:11.07	3 Q	4:06.09
100m breaststroke SB13	1:12.14	9	Did not advance
100m butterfly S13	57.60	4 Q	57.13	4
200m individual medley SM13	2:12.05	3 Q	2:09.92
align=left rowspan=3	David Smetanine	50m freestyle S4	42.68	12	Did not advance
100m freestyle S4	1:32.52	7 Q	1:29.47	6
200m freestyle S4	3:14.09	8 Q	3:14.81	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Emeline Pierre	50m freestyle S10	29.11	11	Did not advance
100m freestyle S10	1:04.39	10	Did not advance
100m backstroke S10	1:13.52	8
Anaëlle Roulet	100m backstroke S10	1:10.83	5
align=left rowspan=4	Claire Supiot	100m freestyle S9	1:07.31	13	Did not advance
400m freestyle S9	5:00.28	11	Did not advance
100m butterfly S8	1:18.94	8 Q	1:16.67	8
200m individual medley SM9	2:55.56	15	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. France entered eleven athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Fabien Lamirault & Thu Kamkasomphou qualified from the 2019 ITTF European Championships which was held in Helsingborg, Sweden and nine other athletes qualified via World Ranking allocation.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fabien Lamirault	Individual C2	W 3-1	W 3-0	1 Q		W 3-0	W 3-1	W 3-2
Stéphane Molliens		W 3-2	W 3-0	1 Q	L 1-3	Did not advance
Florian Merrien	Individual C3	W 3-2	W 3-0	1 Q	W 3-0	L 2-3	Did not advance
Maxime Thomas	Individual C4
Nicolas Savant-Aira	Individual C5
Thomas Bouvais	align=left rowspan=2	Individual C8
Clement Berthier
Matéo Bohéas	Individual C10
Lucas Edouard Creange	Individual C11

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Isabelle Lafaye	Individual C1-2
Anne Barnéoud	Individual C7
Thu Kamkasomphou	Individual C8
Léa Ferney	Individual C11

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. France qualified two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. All of them are confirmed to compete after entered top six in world ranking.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bopha Kong	Men's –61 kg		L 10-20	Did not advance	W 37-24	W 29-26	L 23-33	=5
Laura Schiel	Women's +58 kg	L	Did not advance		L	Did not advance

Wheelchair rugby

See main article: Wheelchair rugby at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

France national wheelchair rugby team qualified for the Games for the games by finishing top two at the 2020 Qualification Tournament in Richmond, Canada.

Team roster

• Team event – 1 team of 12 players

Group stage--------

Fifth place Match

Wheelchair tennis

See main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. France qualified seven players entries for wheelchair tennis. Six of them qualified by the world rankings, while one of them qualified by received the bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Frédéric Cattaneo	Men's singles
Stephane Houdet
Gaetan Menguy
Nicolas Peifer
Charlotte Fairbank	Women's singles
Emmanuelle Mörch

See also

• France at the Paralympics
• France at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: 19 October 2020. Official Selections at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (in French). France Paralympique.
2. Web site: 8 June 2021. Three new selections for Tokyo (in French). France Paralympique.
3. Web site: 2019 World Rowing Championships . 15 October 2018 . www.worldrowing.com . 9 August 2021.
4. Web site: 27 July 2021. Tokyo 2021 - Paralympic selection (in French). Federation Francaise de Tir.
5. Web site: 15 September 2019. Medallists by Event. International Paralympic Committee.
6. Web site: 14 October 2019. World Championships Slot Allocation Method. International Paralympic Committee.
7. Web site: 2019 Para Table Tennis Calendar. 16 March 2019. International Table Tennis Federation.