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Loïc Vergnaud
Loïc Vergnaud (born 1 December 1978) is a French Para-cyclist who represented France at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. Career Vergnaud represented France at 2021 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships where he won silver in the road race H5 and road time trial H5 events. Vergnaud represented France in the men's road time trial H5 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the Inte ... and won a silver medal. He also won a silver medal in the men's road race H5 event. References External links * * * Living people 1978 births French male cyclists Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at t ...
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H5 (classification)
H5 is a para-cycling classification. The UCI recommends this be coded as MH5 or WH5. Definition UCI defines H5 as: "An athlete who can use the kneeling position must use it and therefore will be classified accordingly. * Paraplegic with impairments corresponding to a complete lesion from Th11 or below * Double below or Double through knee amputee * Single leg amputation (AK), minimal disability below knee amputation (BK) * Incomplete loss of lower limb function, with other disabilities, which prevent the safe use of a conventional bicycle or tricycle * Kneeling Position (HK-bike), in case of mobility reduction that prevents kneeling, the athlete can use a recumbent bike in H4 (ex-H3) * Hemiplegic with spasticity grade 2, lower limb more involved * Diplegic, lower spasticity grade 2 in both legs * Mild to moderate athetosis or ataxia The cycle This classification can use an ATP3 knee-seat cycle that is forward leaning on a rigid frame. Classification history Cycling first beca ...
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2023 European Para Championships
The 2023 European Para Championships were the first edition of the European Para Championships held between 8 and 20 August 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sports The following competitions took place: Venues Events will be held at the following venuses: Schedule Medal table Participating nations 42 nations, and a number of neutral athletes, competed: See also *2023 European Games References {{reflist External linksEuropean Para Championships
2023 European Para Championships, 2023 in disability sport 2023 in multi-sport events, European Para Championships 2023 in Dutch sport August 2023 sports events in the Netherlands, Para Championship Sports competitions in Rotterdam European Para Championships ...
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Paralympic Cyclists For France
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disability, disabilities. There are Winter Paralympic Games, Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics began as a small gathering of British World War II veterans in Stoke Mandeville Games, 1948. The 1960 Summer Paralympics, 1960 Games in Rome drew 400 athletes with disabilities from 23 countries, as proposed by doctor Antonio Maglio. Currently it is one of the largest international sporting events: the 2020 Summer Paralympics featuring 4,520 athletes from 163 National Paralympic Committees. Paralympians strive for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a large funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The ...
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Paralympic Silver Medalists For France
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics began as a small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948. The 1960 Games in Rome drew 400 athletes with disabilities from 23 countries, as proposed by doctor Antonio Maglio. Currently it is one of the largest international sporting events: the 2020 Summer Paralympics featuring 4,520 athletes from 163 National Paralympic Committees. Paralympians strive for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a large funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The Paralympic Games are organized in parallel with and in a similar way to the Olympic ...
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Medalists At The European Para Championships
A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be intended to be worn, suspended from clothing or jewellery in some way, although this has not always been the case. They may be struck like a coin by dies or die-cast in a mould. A medal may be awarded to a person or organisation as a form of recognition for sporting, military, scientific, cultural, academic, or various other achievements. Military awards and decorations are more precise terms for certain types of state decoration. Medals may also be created for sale to commemorate particular individuals or events, or as works of artistic expression in their own right. In the past, medals commissioned for an individual, typically with their portrait, were often used as a form of diplomatic or personal gift, with no sense of being an award for ...
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Cyclists At The 2024 Summer Paralympics
Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of bicycle pedal, pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world for purposes including transport, recreation, exercise, and competitive sport. History Cycling became popularized in Europe and North America in the latter part and especially the last decade of the 19th century. Today, over 50 percent of the human population knows how to ride a bike. War The bicycle has been used as a method of reconnaissance as well as transporting soldiers and supplies to combat zones. In this it has taken over many of the functions of horses in warfare. In the Second Boer War, both sides used bicycles for scouting. In World War I, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand used bicycles to move troops. In its 1937 invasion of China, Japan employed some 50,000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrume ...
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French Male Cyclists
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1978 Births
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ...
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