Aurélie Aubert (born 9 June 1997) is a French boccia player. She is a Paralympic champion at the
Summer Paralympics
The Summer Paralympics also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral ...
in 2024.
Career
Aubert began playing boccia in 2010, at the age of 12 or 13. Not liking sports at that age, she says she came to boccia because the educators at the Richebourg rehabilitation center, where she was a resident, had promised her, in exchange, "lots of squares" of chocolate. There she also met Claudine Llop Cliville, then a nurse, who became her playing assistant and coach. Aubert trains twice a week, for about ten hours. She is supported in her practice by a mental trainer, video analysis and physiotherapy.
In 2023, Aubert took part in the European Boccia Championships in Rotterdam. She finished fourth in the BC1 category. Captaining the French team, she competed in the
2024 Summer Paralympics
The 2024 Paralympic Games, Summer Paralympics (french: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), commonly known as the Games of the XVII Paralympiad, and commonly known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international Multi-sport event, multi-sport paraspo ...
in Paris. She qualified for the women's individual BC1 final by eliminating Bermudian Yushae DeSilva-Andrade in a tie-break. She then won the gold medal by beating Singaporean
Jeralyn Tan
Jeralyn Tan Yee Ting (born 1 February 1989) is a Singaporean boccia player. She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
The 2024 Paralympic Games, Summer Paralympics (french: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), commonly known as the Games of ...
in the final, despite an error at the end of the match; she refused the last three balls, wrongly believing that her opponent had no more. She still won the game 2-0, 5-0 and 5-3. This was the very first French Paralympic medal in the sport and the first international title of her career for Aubert. She said she hoped that her victory would give more visibility to boccia. She was named flag bearer of the French delegation for the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games alongside shooter
Tanguy de La Forest
Tanguy is the French spelling of Breton given name Tangi from ''tan'', "fire", and ''ki'', "dog". It may refer to:
People Given name
* Saint Tanguy, sixth-century Breton monk and abbey founder
* Tanguy Malmanche (1875–1953), Breton writer
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Aubert is a member of the Win'27 disabled sports club in Aubevoye,
Eure
Eure () is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2019, Eure had a population of 599,507.
Personal life
Aubert has cerebral palsy due to a lack of oxygen at birth. She lives in a foster family.