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Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lyon, France | 26 June 2000||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Para-cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Leber congenital amaurosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexandre Lloveras (born 26 June 2000) is a French para-cyclist who represented France at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. [1]
Lloveras represented France in the men's road time trial B event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a gold medal. [2] He also competed in the men's individual pursuit B event and finished in fourth place. On 31 May 2022, bronze medal winner Marcin Polak was stripped of his medal and suspended for four years for breaching anti-doping rules. As a result Lloveras was upgraded to the bronze medal. [3] [4]
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