Magnificent personal double.

Fabien Lamirault offered his fourth gold medal to the French team on Monday at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, winning the final of the Class 2 individual table tennis tournament. The defending champion has again overcome of the Polish Rafal Czuper (3-2), like five years ago at the Rio Games.

For his third Games, at 41, the native of Longjumeau therefore won a fifth Paralympic medal, the third individual.

"I was keen to win to become the first in my category to keep the title, it had never been done," says Lamirault, who confesses "a big relief" after having "put enormous pressure".

Paraplegic since a car accident in 1997, the Ile-de-France resident discovered table tennis in a rehabilitation center.

🇫🇷🤩 GOLD FOR FABIEN LAMIRAULT!

GRANDIOSE!



🥇 The Frenchman won an electric match against his rival Czuper to capture his third coronation.

Fourth gold medal for the French delegation.



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Thanks to this gold, France has a total of 27 medals, one less than in Rio and just seven units from the goal of 35 podiums set before the Games.

"There is a sixth medal to go for with, I hope, the same color", already projects Fabien Lamirault, in search of team gold (Class 1-2) of which he is also the defending champion.

Two swimmers at the foot of the podium

The night (according to the French time zone) was on the other hand less fertile for swimming.

Haut-Garonnais Ugo Didier, already a silver medalist in the 400m S9, thus finished fourth in the 100m backstroke, just four hundredths from the podium.

Same place for the Girondin Laurent Chardard on 50m butterfly S6.

David Smétanine meanwhile finished last in the final of the 200m freestyle S4, but approaches with more confidence his specialty, the 50m.

A distance over which the Isérois has already won four medals in the past.

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