The French team, which won multiple titles at the Paralympic Games (21 medals, including 7 gold), is continuing its medal haul at the Paracycling Road World Championships in Zurich (Switzerland).
Florian Bouziani won the C3 category time trial on Tuesday, September 24, while in the C2 category, the reigning Olympic champion, Alexandre Léauté, had to settle for silver. The total for the French team at this stage stands at nine medals, including three gold.
Florian Bouziani, who suffered 90% burns in a fire in 2013, won on a fairly flat 18.8-kilometre course with a lead of two seconds and 11 hundredths over Briton Finley Graham and 4 seconds and 75 hundredths over Canadian Alexandre Hayward, with an average speed of 48 km/h. Olympic champion in Paris, Thomas Peyroton Dartet could not do better than seventh place.
In the C2 category, the Olympic champion and reigning world champion Alexandre Léauté missed out on gold by twenty seconds, beaten by the Belgian Ewoud Vromant.
On Monday, during the C4 category time trial (over 30 km), the French had achieved a hat-trick: Mattis Lebeau had beaten Kevin Le Cunff, crowned time trial winner at the Paralympic Games this summer, by more than sixteen seconds, and Gatien Le Rousseau, who had taken silver in Paris, by more than a minute.
In the category B time trial, Alexandre Lloveras, teamed up with Yoann Paillot, won the silver medal behind the Dutch duo Tristan Bangma/Patrick Bos.
The French team began to make its mark on the World Championships on Saturday, September 21, with the handbike relay title (Joseph Fritsch, Florian Jouanny and Johan Quaile).
On Sunday, Heidi Gaugain, as at the Games, won silver in the C5 category time trial behind the British Sarah Storey, with Katell Alençon winning a bronze medal in the C4 category.