Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Le Cunff wins time trial gold (C4), Le Rousseau silver

Le Cunff, une médaille après plusieurs places de quatrième. FF de Handisport

Cursed on the track, with four fourth places in two participations in the Paralympic Games, Le Cunff and his 36 years took a resounding revenge on the demanding roads of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Double blue! Frenchman Kévin Le Cunff won the gold medal in the C4 time trial, just ahead of his young compatriot Gatien Le Rousseau on Wednesday in Clichy-sous-Bois. Cursed on the track, with four fourth places in two participations in the Paralympic Games, Le Cunff and his 36 years took a resounding revenge on the demanding roads of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Four days after having let Le Rousseau, 21, steal the bronze medal from him in the individual pursuit, Le Cunff showed himself imperial to win a new Paralympic gold medal, three years after the one in the road race in Tokyo. The two riders are competing in the C4 category, intended for para-athletes with a tibial amputation, severe leg damage, or mild damage to the 4 limbs and trunk.

“I'll be better off outside”

Le Cunff has two club feet and an atrophied calf, Le Rousseau has paralysis of the levators of both feet. “I don't want to come back to a velodrome anymore, I'm an outdoor guy, I'll be better off outside”, the former member of the professional team Saint-Michel-Auber 93 whispered on Sunday, after another disappointment in the velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

And he was much better, winning with more than 30 seconds ahead of his young teammate. He will try for a double during the road race on Friday. With this new victory, Le Cunff offers a 13th gold medal to France during these Paralympic Games, the fifth for the Blues of cycling.