French skier Arthur Bauchet won the downhill title (standing category) on Saturday at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, thus offering the first gold medal to the French team during the competition.
The 21-year-old sportsman, from the Var and licensed at the Briançon ski club, beat the Austrian Markus Salcher and the Swiss Theo Gmuer.
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A great confirmation for Arthur Bauchet, already multiple world ski champion and who won four silver medals at the Pyeongchang Paralympics in 2018.
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It's crazy!
Hearing the Marseillaise, everyone comes for that
, ”reacted the young skier.
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It was still a great fight today.
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I said I was coming here to have fun.
The pleasure he was 100% on the track.
What I was missing was the result.
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This is the first gold medal won by France during these Paralympic Winter Games, which take place from March 4 to 13 in Beijing and in the surrounding mountains.
