The list of French athletes who will carry high the standard of the French delegation is growing little by little.
Open water swimmers Caroline Jouisse and Océane Cassignol validated their qualification for the Paris Olympic Games (from Friday July 26 to Sunday August 11) following the 10 km event of the World Championships, this Saturday in Doha .
After almost two hours of effort in the bay of the Qatari capital, Jouisse took 7th place in the race, three places ahead of Océane Cassignol, 10th.
You had to enter the top 13 to win the right to swim in the Seine in six months, knowing that the German Léonie Beck, the Australian Chelsea Gubecka and the American Katie Grimes, already qualified, would certainly have been at the forefront. positions.
First Olympic Games for Jouisse and Cassignol
Aged 29 and 23, the two French women will compete in the first Olympic Games of their careers.
On Sunday, it will be the turn of Marc-Antoine Olivier and Logan Fontaine to try to validate their ticket to Paris 2024.
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Sharon van Rouwendaal is crowned world champion, Maria de Valdés is 2nd while the Portuguese Angelica André took 3rd place 🥇
▶️ Respectively 7th and 10th, Caroline Jouisse and Océane Cassignol validated their tickets for the Paris 2024 Olympics 🇫 🇷 pic.twitter.com/kcBHQyaBWl
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Note that the race was won by the Dutchwoman Sharon Van Rouwendaal, Olympic champion in Rio, in 1 hour 57 minutes and 26 seconds.
Silver went to the Spaniard Maria de Valdes and the bronze to the Portuguese Angelica André.