2023-09-15 20:29:42
Three silvers in fin swimming, one silver and one bronze in cano-kayak: five new medals were added to the French Team’s total this Friday, bringing the tricolor total to 20 on the eve of the end of the Mediterranean Beach Games. And at least one other, in volleyball, is already there and is already there on Saturday
And three makes five for fin swimming!
If gold is slipping away for the moment in the swimming pool of the National Sports Center in Heraklion, the French team collected no less than three new silver medals this Friday, adding to that already won the day before by the 4X100 m surface relay, as well as the individual bronze dAnas Verger.
The closest to the Grail was undeniably Sbastien Chedru, since it was the touch that the title of the 200m two-fins was decided. Starting cautiously (fifth at 50 m), he never stopped moving up (third at mid-race, second at 150 m) to enjoy a final breathtaking straight line, elbow to elbow with his neighbor on the water line, the Croatian Ognjen Maric. Victory is decided by a tenth of a second: 13693 once morest 13668! I came here without much pretensions but I found that I was doing well in training, I was having good times, and that came to fruition today, the person concerned recalls. I was very easy in the heats, best time in 141, but everyone hid a little and it went down a lot in the final. I’m super happy with the time, the medal too, it was a pleasure, followingwards There’s a little bitter taste in the place, but that’s sport!
In terms of strong emotions, Colas Zugmeyer will also have left his mark on his race of the day, the 200 m surface, rewarding his French fan club with a fiery final straight from his lane 8. Still 5th in the 150 m, he lands in second position (12495), only 31 gold, while he was close to a second behind the Turk Toparlak halfway through the race! This morning I had a few doubts, inconclusive equipment tests nevertheless revealed the medalist in the relay from the day before. But making the final on the outside line was interesting. I was a bit away, alone, and that’s what allowed me to win this medal. No one saw me tumble!
Like its counterpart in the 4×100 m surface, the mixed 4×50 m two-fin relay also finished in silver. And if Tho De Zaldivar, Emilie Fatras, Charles Salsano and Anas Verger third personal medal for the latter might not do anything once morest Italy, credited with a Mediterranean record (12155), their time of 12317 earned them more than half a second ahead of the Croatia, third. The race went really well, responded Emilie Fatras. We stuck together until the last moment and gave everything, that’s the main thing. We are very, very happy, both with the result and with our team cohesion.
The finalists of the day also: Charles Salsano and Tho De Saldivar (4th and 5th in the 50m two-fin), Emilie Fatras and Louise Lefebvre (6th and 8th in the 100m two-fin), Anas Verger and Pauline Grard (7th and 8th in the 100 m surface), Kalliste Fourton Bellini and Oriane Robisson (7th and 8th in the 400 m surface), Hugo Meyer (8th in the 50 m apne) and Vincent Prudhomme (8th in the 200 m surface).
There are five tests left on the program on Saturday, with open water, and in particular another relay , smiles Colas Zugmeyer. Appetite comes when eating, the double medalist even warns: We will still aim for the podium, and perhaps the first gold medal. This would be an amazing finish!
Cano-kayak: Thas Delrieux and Hector Henot in the deep end
Happy birthday Thas! Two days before her 22nd birthday, Thas Delrieux took care of her gift herself by winning the silver medal in the 10 km ocean racing at the Mediterranean Beach Games. I’m super happy with my race, the Bayonnaise beamed upon arrival. I tried to hold the first (lSpanish Judit Verges Xifra, ndlr), who I knew was very strong, I know her, she’s a friend that I often see at competitions. I managed to hold my wave on the first two muds. Then, as soon as we film the second one, we have a part that’s really regarding surfing, and that’s when it managed to stand out. It was too hard to come back from her but I still had to fight to the end with the second Spaniard. On the flat parts, facing the wind, it was very hard to unhook it but I gradually managed to put a little more distance.
She completed her 10 km in 49201, one minute and a half behind the winner and with a twenty-seven second margin over the other Spaniard, Amaia Osaba Olaberri. Behind follow the two other French women entered, Floriane Broustal (5th in 51308) and Claire Dewaste (6th, 52212).
A little earlier, Hector Henot had taken third place in the men’s event. His first international medal among seniors, aged 24: I’m rather happy, he savored. We would always like the most beautiful metal but I will be able to settle for this bronze for today. Especially since for him too, the race was exciting: I succeeded in the start I wanted to make, by hanging on to the race lead. I pass the second mud in the lead, then the Spaniard (Walter Bouzan Sanchez) takes the lead and maintains it until the end but we had a good fight with the Portuguese (Bernardo Pereira) for second place.
This is the least we can do since the two athletes will cross the line separated by only two seconds (414701 for the Frenchman). The winner had arrived 45 seconds earlier. To hear him, the Breton will come back to practice the exercise: It’s a racing format that we’re not used to, especially since I live in Rennes so I don’t often train at sea, but I find it interesting because it combines physics, technique and strategy. Nicolas Lambert finished fifth (43098), Victor Doux sixth (434602).
Beach volleyball: the Ay brothers in the final
At the end of the suspense! Calvin and Quincy Ay qualified for the final of the volleyball tournament by forcing a decision once morest the Portuguese Hugo Campos and Joao Pedrosa (2-1, 21-13, 15-21, 15-13). On Saturday, once morest the Italians Benzi / Bonifazi, they will try not to bring back, but to keep the cup at home, since the Blues Olivier Barthlmy and Arnaud Loiseau won Patras four years ago.
We already know, however, that Aline Chamereau will not keep her title. Crowned at the 2019 vintage Mediterranean Beach Games, the era with Alexandra Jupiter, the holder, associated this year with Clemence Vieira, returned her crown in the semi-finals, once morest the Italians Margherita Bianchin and Claudia Scampoli (0-2, 15-21 and 20 -22). There will still be a bronze medal to be won on Saturday, once morest locals Dionysia Matiou and Elisavet Triantafyllidi.
The latter, in fact, stopped the progress of Elsa Descamps and Romane Sobezalz in the quarter-finals (0-2, 15-21, 16-21), but the French were able to re-mobilize to go in search of a place of honor. Their success over the Cypriots Gusarova / Nystrm (2-0, 21-19 and 21-12), will earn them a classification match for fifth place on Saturday.
Beach tennis: Gianotti / Gugano and the Hoarau sisters at the meeting
The two French pairs ostensibly candidates for the podium (and more if similar) qualified for the final four of the beach tennis tournament. The boys, seeded n1 in the table, dominated the Portuguese Freitas / Maio (6/0 6/3) in the quarters and will meet the Italian n3 Beccaccioli / Giovannini on Saturday.
Marie-Eve and Mathilde Hoarau (n4), for their part, outperformed the Greek pair Sotiriadou / Vasileiou (6/0 6/0). They will face the Italian favorites Sofia Cimatti and Giulia Gasparri (TS 1) for a place in the final.
The tour is in rematch at the stage of the final quarters by Paul Gotarda and Tho Irigaray, battus by the Espagnols Antonio Miguel Ramos Viera and Gerard Rodriguez Querol (6/4 7/5), n4 du tableau. Mme dnouement pour Lola Barrau et Mar Bray, dfaites par les ibriques Eva Fernandez Palos et Ariadna Costa Graell (n3, 6/1 6/1).
Finally, it will be a fourth place for Lola Barrau and Tho Irigaray in mixed. The task already seemed difficult once morest the number 2 in the table, the Spaniards Eva Fernandez Palos and Antonio Miguel Ramos Viera, but it became impossible once Lola Barrau was diminished. The French pair was forced to abandon following losing the first set 0/6, scoring only seven points in total.
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