At 20 years old, the Frenchman is taking part in his first Games. He set his personal best on Saturday at the Stade de France, taking 3rd place.
France Télévisions – Sports Editorial
Published on 08/31/2024 11:28 Updated on 08/31/2024 11:53
Reading time: 1 min Frenchman Antoine Praud (right, next to Russian Aleksandr Iaremchuk) wins the bronze medal in the 1500m (T46) at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on August 31 at the Stade de France. (ULRIK PEDERSEN/CSM/SHUTTERSTOCK/ / SIPA)
A successful first. Frenchman Antoine Praud won, for his first participation in the Paralympic Games, at only 20 years old, bronze in the 1,500 m (T46 category), Saturday August 31. He finished 3rd (3’51″37), a personal best, behind the Russian Aleksandr Iaremchuk (3’50″24) and the Australian Michael Roeger (3’51″19). This is the first French medal in athletics, the 10th in total.
The young Breton, pushed towards athletics by his mother, a former high-level athlete, has experienced a meteoric rise in recent years. He took part in his first world championships last year at the Charléty stadium, where he finished 10th. Elite French champion over the distance, he took advantage of his time on the purple track at the Stade de France to shave off his best time by four seconds and thus confirm his passage under the symbolic four-minute mark.
Paralympics 2024 – Athletics: Antoine Praud wins bronze in the 1500m
