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Alexandre Léauté’s amazing week
Friday 6 september 2024
Alexandre Léauté, a paralympic cyclist from Brittany supported by Banque Palatine, has already won three medals, including two Paralympic titles, and is building a dizzying list of achievements at the age of 23.
Frenzy in the Saint-Quentin velodrome
At the tender age of 20, Alexandre Léauté was the French delegation’s first paralympic champion in Tokyo in 2021. Three years later, Léauté is back again at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024. On Friday August 30, he brought a 4th medal to the French delegation when he won the C2 individual pursuit event at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines national velodrome. This venue southwest of Paris has gradually become a major source of medals for the French team, with Dorian Foulon, supported by Banque Populaire Aquitaine Centre Atlantique, winning gold in the C5 pursuit and a bronze medal in the C5 road time trial, along with Loïc Vergnaud, supported by Caisse d’Epargne Loire Drôme Ardèche, who won silver in the H5 time trial.
Alexandre Léauté has continued in Paris 2024 the good work he began in Tokyo, where he claimed a total of four medals. This native of the Côtes-d’Armor in northern Brittany had already won bronze in the track time trial before competing in the same discipline but in the road event and transforming the bronze he won in Tokyo into a gold medal in Paris, in the C2 category.
Alexandre Léauté’s incredible record of achievements
Alexandre, who dominated the road time trial on the Clichy-sous-Bois course, winning his third medal in the Paralympic Games Paris 2024, is building up an impressive list of achievements, winning 23 world championship titles in addition to his seven Paralympic medals. What an achievement for a man who suffered an undetected stroke at birth! It was only at the age of three, when it was noticed that he kept his right fist closed and couldn’t place his right heel on the ground, that his family realized that he suffered from a disability. An MRI scan subsequently confirmed that these symptoms had been caused by a stroke.
After trying football, Alexandre took up cycling. This was when it was discovered that he lacked 95% of the power in his right leg, the reason why he competes against amputee cyclists in his category. His right hand is also deficient, so his brakes are only placed on the left-hand side of the handlebars, a detail he has now fully mastered and which has allowed him to contribute to this bumper crop of medals in the world of French para cycling. And it’s not over yet, considering that Alexandre will be lining up for the road race on Saturday, September 7 but, as he said himself in a spirit of total altruism, he intends to put all his strength and talent at the service of his French team-mates… Another way of being a champion!
To learn about the para athletes, athletes and teams supported by Groupe BPCE companies taking part in Paris 2024