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France at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

France at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Sporting event delegation


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

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

Medalists

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Archery

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Athletics

Men's track
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Men's field
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Women's track
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Women's field
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Badminton

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Women
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Mixed
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Boccia

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Cycling

Road

Track

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Equestrian

Céline Gerny, Anne-Frédérique Royon, Vladimir Vinchon and Chiara Zenati have all qualified to compete at the Paralympics.

Football 5-a-side

Team roster

The following is the France squad in the football 5-a-side tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[2]

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Group A
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Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referee: Lucio Morgado (Brazil)

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Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referee: Stuart Winton (Great Britain)

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Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referee: Attila Balint (Hungary)
Seventh place match
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Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referee: Attila Balint (Hungary)

Judo

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Paracanoeing

Nelia Barbosa, Rémy Boulle and Eddie Potdevin have qualified to compete at the Paralympics in the paracanoe.[3]

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Rowing

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.[4]

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

Shooting

France entered eight shooters, all male, into the Paralympic competition.[5]

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Swimming

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.[6][7]

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Table tennis

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.[8]

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Taekwondo

France qualified two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. All of them are confirmed to compete after entered top six in world ranking.

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Wheelchair rugby

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
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Group stage
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Wheelchair tennis

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.

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See also


References

  1. "Official Selections at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (in French)". France Paralympique. 19 October 2020.
  2. "Football 5-a-side – Team France". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. "Three new selections for Tokyo (in French)". France Paralympique. 8 June 2021.
  4. "2019 World Rowing Championships". www.worldrowing.com. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  5. "Tokyo 2021 - Paralympic selection (in French)". Federation Francaise de Tir. 27 July 2021.
  6. "Medallists by Event" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 September 2019.
  7. "World Championships Slot Allocation Method" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 14 October 2019.
  8. "2019 Para Table Tennis Calendar". International Table Tennis Federation. 16 March 2019.

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