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| Born | 16 October 1981 Maradi, Niger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Adaptive rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Antoine Jesel (born 16 October 1981) is a French adaptive rower of Nigerien descent. He has competed at the Paralympic Games three times and has won one Paralympic bronze medal, he has also won three medals at the World Rowing Championships and two medals at the European Rowing Championships in both mixed coxed four and double sculls. [1] [2]
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Erik Horrie is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and a five-time world champion rower. He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team. Switching to rowing in 2011, he made an immediate impact in the sport, first winning the NSW State Rowing Championships and then the National Rowing Championships in Adelaide. He has won silver medals at the 2012, 2016, 2020 Summer Paralympics and a bronze at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won gold medals at the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 World Rowing Championships. Horrie has selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics - his fourth Games.
Élodie Lorandi is a French Paralympic swimmer who won medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
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Senegal sent a delegation to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. This was the fourth successive appearance for the nation in a Summer Paralympic Games after it debuted at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. Youssouphua Diouf, a javelin thrower, and shot put and discus thrower Daque Diop were the two athletes sent to Rio de Janeiro by Senegal. The delegation failed to win the country's first medal at the Summer Paralympics as its best performance in these Games was Diouf's seventh position in the men's javelin F56-57 event.
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France competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Stéphane Tardieu is a French adaptive rower who competes in international elite competitions, he started rowing when he was fourteen before switching to rugby, he went back to rowing in 2007 after losing a leg in a hunting accident two years previously. He competes in the double sculls with his training partner Perle Bouge, they have both won two Paralympic medals and five World medals.
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