More gold for France at Beijing Winter Paralympics, thanks to Bauchet, Hernandez
Skier Arthur Bauchet and snowboarder Cécile Hernandez emerged as the French champions on Monday at the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.
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Bauchet, 21, dominated the Super-G to win the combined skiing event and claim his second gold medal of the Games which got underway at the weekend.
On Saturday, he won the downhill.
"Double Paralympic champion," tweeted the France team. "Winning one is not enough!"
🇫🇷 DOUBLE CHAMPION PARALYMPIQUE !
— Equipe France (@EquipeFRA) March 7, 2022
Parceque une médaille d'or ce n'est pas assez, Arthur Bauchet remporte cette fois-ci le Super Combiné ET AVEC LA MANIÈRE !#AllezLesBleus #Pékin2022 pic.twitter.com/luUmZMtuyZ
Hernandez took the gold in the snowboarding cross-country event (LL2 category (SB-LL2).
It was a fourth Paralympic medal for the 47-year-old. Lisa Dejong frm Canada and Brenna Huckaby from the United States won silver and bronze respectively.
🇫🇷 CHAMPIONNE PARALYMPIQUEEEEEEE 🥇
— Equipe France (@EquipeFRA) March 7, 2022
La première médaille pour le para snowboard à #Pékin2022 est en or et elle est signée CECILE HERNANDEZ !#AllezLesBleus pic.twitter.com/r92DP8VCEL
In 2014 in Sochi in Russia, Hernandez won silver in the cross-country SB-LL1 and four years later in Pyeongchang in South Korea, she took a bronze in the same category and silver in the banked slalom.
The participation of Hernandez and Huckaby at the 2022 Games had been in doubt following the removal of the SB-LL1 category.
Huckaby, who won gold in South Korea in 2018 the SB-LL1, received an interim injunction from a German court along with Hernandez to be permitted to compete in the higher SB-LL2 class.
On Saturday - the penultimate day of competition in China - Hernandez will vie for a fifth Paralympic medal in the banked slalom.
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