After the Haut-Garonnais gold medal won by Ugo Didier, the other big hope for a medal in para-swimming Alex Portal won silver this Thursday, August 29, in the 100m butterfly.
La Défense Aréna will take place on Thursday, August 29! After the gold medal won by Cugnaux para swimmer Ugo DidierIt is Alex Portal who gives the French delegation a new charm. And this time it's money for Alex Portal, blind since birth.
High hopes for a medal, he did not disappoint in a race where he gave it his all. Facing the big favorite, Ihar Boki, he didn't come far from the feat. But unfortunately it was his great rival from Belarus who finished 0'25 ahead of him. A duel of favorites that left no room for competition.
Already a silver medalist in Tokyo in the 200m medley, but also a bronze medalist in the 400m freestyle at the same Japanese Games, Portal won a third Olympic medal at the age of 22. A reward that must have a special flavor in front of his audience, he, the licensee at the Nanterre club. Especially since he broke his personal record tonight.
The rest for him will be the 400m freestyle on Sunday, August 31st, then the 200m medley on September 3rd. Enough to dream of a historic hat-trick after this more than successful start in the 100m, which is not his favorite event.