Le Parisien now returns, at the end of each weekend, to all the results and highlights of sporting events in Île-de-France.
The weekend poster: Boulogne-Levallois basketball players dominate Asvel
In a full and fulfilled Marcel-Cerdan sports hall - which was sold out for the 8th time this season - Vincent Collet's players won (83-81) on Sunday evening against Asvel during the clash between co-leaders of the Betclic Elite.
A duel which kept all its promises by the quality of the game developed by the two teams and which ended after a long and intense showdown.
If Boulogne-Levallois, carried by the inevitable Will Cummings (29 points), started this shock better at the top of the championship (38-20), he however had to wait until the last second to resist the return of the Villeurbannais who had taken control a few minutes from the buzzer.
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With this result, the Metropolitans return to victory after 3 defeats in the league, stop the series of 8 victories of Asvel and seize, alone, the head of the Betclic Elite.
“It's the victory of courage, savors Vincent Collet.
We found the face displayed during the first part of the season.
It's good to be a leader, but the season is far from over and we have a cotton calendar ahead of us.
We must take advantage of what we have done and continue to work to improve.
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The perf of the weekend: the volleyball players of Plessis-Robinson
Le Plessis-Robinson is becoming a regular in this section.
After Montpellier (5th) and Sète (3rd), the promoted player who is playing for the first time in its history in Ligue A, won Nantes-Rézé on Saturday (3-1, 20-25, 25-22, 26-24 , 25-19).
The Russian central Alexey Nalobin, 32, who had made the trip, did not play (feverish).
“He suffered the situation, explained to us Cédric Logeais, his coach.
He is powerless against the decisions of Vladimir Putin.
It's difficult for him.
Volleyball allows him to think about something else from time to time, but it's not an easy situation.
“Le Plessis-Robinson steals 9th place from his opponent and finds himself three points (and one game less) from 8th place (the last qualifier for the play-offs) occupied by Paris, winner of Toulouse on Friday (3- 1).
The flop: the end of Racing's series in the Top 14
Undefeated since January 2, Racing 92, which remained on six consecutive successes (Clermont, Toulouse, Brive, Pau, Bordeaux and Castres) lost at the penultimate Perpignan (34-13) Saturday during the 20th day of Top 14. While they were rather dominating, the Racingmen broke down and lost control of the game by conceding two tries in quick succession just after the half-hour mark (31st and 34th).
Antoine Gibert missed three out of five penalties.
Racing is now 5th.
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The player of the weekend: Vyacheslav Bobrov (Nanterre)
He wasn't sure he could play.
Arrived at the beginning of the week in France, the interior Vyacheslav Bobrov had to settle personal affairs before playing his first match with Nanterre.
Finally, the 29-year-old Ukrainian was present on the Gravelines floor on Friday evening.
But his first steps in his new colors turned out to be tricky.
Bobrov, who played for Dnipro before signing for Nanterre, had to make do with a rebound in 7 minutes of play and his new team lost (87-83).
The event: a Kenyan hat-trick on Place de la Bastille
Boniface Kibiwott won the Paris half marathon.
(photo by Guillaume Talbot/LP/Icon Sport) Guillaume Talbot/LP/Icon Sport
Returning to its usual date this year, after two years of health crisis, the Paris half-marathon saw 25,000 competitors cross the finish line at Place de la Bastille.
It was the Kenyan Boniface Kibiwott who won in 1h00′52′' ahead of his compatriots Vincent Yegon (1h01′18′') and Benard Kimeli (1h01′23′').
First Frenchman, Benjamin Choquert finished 7th in 1h03′38′'.
Among the women, the victory went to the Ethiopian Nigsti Haftu in 1h07′37′'.
Margaux Siéracki took sixth place in 1h11′01′'.
Start of half Marathon of Paris 2022, Paris, France on 6th March 2022. (photo by Guillaume Talbot/LP/Icon Sport) Guillaume Talbot/LP/Icon Sport
The number: 19
PSG Handball, winner in Chambéry (33-27), won their 19th success in as many Starligue matches.
But the leader was jostled for a long time by the Savoyards, carried by an imperial Nikola Portner in his goals (12 parades for a ratio of 31% over the whole match).
PSG were up to five goals behind, but recovered by almost systematically resorting to numerical superiority in attack.
This ultra-offensive strategy allowed PSG Handball to return to equality before the 20th minute (12-12) before taking off.
Mikkel Hansen shot an 8 of 9.
"It was difficult to win here, in a full house, but we knew how to do it," said coach Raul Gonzalez.
We were not concentrated enough in attack in the first quarter of an hour.
That's why we went to seven, because it forces us to be more vigilant.
In this system, an error is quickly fatal.
PSG took the opportunity to take their revenge on Chambéry, which is still the only team to have beaten them on the French scene this season: 28-29 in the semi-final of the League Cup in December.
The main results
BASKETBALL
Betclic Elite:
Gravelines - NANTERRE 87-83, Le Mans - PARIS 95-82, BOULOGNE - LEVALLOIS - ASVEL 83-81.
HANDBALL.
Starligue:
Cesson-Rennes - CRETEIL 30-29;
Chambery - PSG 27-33.
Proligue:
Nice - IVRY 23-30, PONTAULT-COMBAULT - Besançon 27-26, TREMBLAY - MASSY 24-29
ICE HOCKEY.
Magnus League:
Bordeaux - CERGY-PONTOISE 0-4
RUGBY.
Top 14:
Perpignan-RACING 92 34-13;
STADE FRANÇAIS - Stade Toulousain 23-16
National:
MASSY - Aubenas 35-3;
Albi - Suresnes 21-8.
Women's Elite 1:
Stade Toulousain - STADE FRANÇAIS 39-0;
Rennes - BOBIGNY 25-5
VOLLEYBALL
League A:
PARIS-Toulouse 3-1;
Nantes-Rezé - Le Plessis-Robinson 1-3;
Women's A League: Marcq-en-Barœul - STADE FRANÇAIS PARIS SAINT-CLOUD 3-0.