The first disabled sports athlete will enter the Grévin museum: a few months before the Paralympic Games, 23-year-old French swimmer Théo Curin will have his wax statue, the institution announced Thursday.
After six months of making, the statue bearing the image of the swimmer will join those of other athletes such as Camille Lacourt, Teddy Riner and Clarisse Agbégnénou on March 8, 2024, among the 250 personalities represented.
The museum has recently welcomed new athletes, like the French skateboarder Aurélien Giraud who inaugurated his statue last week, becoming the first athlete in his discipline represented, or the rugby players Antoine Dupont and Frédéric Michalak, last May.
From the first Games at 16
Théo Curin, athlete but also model, actor and presenter, participated in his first Paralympic Games in Rio, at the age of 16.
Before becoming double world vice-champion in 2017 and winning the bronze medal at the World Championships in London two years later.
Amputated in all four limbs at the age of six following meningitis, this extreme swimmer became the first disabled athlete to have participated in the 57 km aquatic marathon between Santa Fe and Coronda in Argentina.
“Above all, he is someone who is absolutely luminous, who is a real sun, who is a lesson for many, whether you are disabled or not,” underlined Véronique Berecz, head of external relations at the museum. Grévin.
Created in 1882 on the Grands Boulevards of Paris, the Grévin museum welcomes 800,000 visitors per year.