France sent 15 athletes and two guides to the

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Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...

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. They competed in

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, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding.

Marie Bochet Marie Bochet (born 2 February 1994) is a French alpine skier and Paralympic Champion. Life Bochet was born in Chambéry in 1994. She was five when she started skiing. She has a disability and she was the first skier to finish in the giant slal ...

carried the

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during the Opening Ceremony. Four people from France competed in para-snowboarding. Five people competed in para-alpine skiing. Six skiers and two guide skiers competed in para-Nordic skiing. They won seven gold medals, eight silver and five bronze including four golds for Bochet and three golds and two silvers for Benjamin Daviet.

Medalists

Team

People from France went to the

, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding. People on the team were Benjamin Daviet and

Cécile Hernandez Cécile Hernandez is a French para-snowboarder and four-time Paralympic medallist, with a gold medal from Beijing 2022, a silver medal from Sochi 2014 and both a silver and a bronze from PyeongChang 2018. She competes for the teams and , as w ...

was chosen to carry the

during the Opening Ceremony. She was chosen 100 days before the 2018 Games started. The first people were included on the team in September 2017. The list included Thomas Clarion. "Team France" was represented by the following athletes at the 2018 Games:

Para-alpine skiing

There were five skiers from France. They were

Arthur Bauchet Arthur Bauchet (born 10 October 2000) is a French para-alpine skier. Career He represented France at the 2018 Winter Paralympics and won four silver medals . He competed at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships and won gold medals i ...

, Jordan Broisin, Frederic François and

Yohann Taberlet Yohann Taberlet (born 29 March 1981) is a French skier. He has a disability and uses a wheelchair. He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. He was the second skier to finish in the men's sitting slalom race and was the thir ...

Para-Nordic skiing

Benjamin Daviet was at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. He did not win a medal. His best finish was seventh. The first medal he won at a major competition was in 2017 at a race in Finsterau. Thomas Dubois first represented France at racing at the 2017 World Cup in

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. Before that, he was the French junior champion in biathlon and cross-country skiing. He finished second in biathlon and cross-country skiing at the senior French championships. Dubois became blind when he was an 8-year-old because of a

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. He needs to ski with a guide skier. Unlike other countries, Fédération française handisport does not give money to guide skiers to help blind skiers with the cost of competing. To get the right to go to and practice for the Winter Paralympics, it cost €21,000. Dubois had to raise money to be able to pay for that. Maubourguet Lions Club helped Dubois get the money for the Winter Paralympics.

Para-snowboarding

There were three

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from France at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Snowboarders Snowboards are boards where the user places both feet, usually secured, to the same board. The board itself is wider than most skis, with the ability to glide on snow."snowboarding." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 17 Mar ...

from France went to

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at the last part of January 2018 to get ready for the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Cécile Hernandez was one of the snowboarders from France. She went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics. It was the first Paralympics for Montaggioni and Roulet. Hernandez and Roulet have

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. Montaggioni has a problem with her legs. They were coached by Olivier Noiret and Marcos Lorenzo.

References

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Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...