2023-10-24 15:15:00
While the Paralympic Marathon will showcase the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis as a whole, the para-cycling road competitions will take place in Clichy-sous-Bois and its surroundings.
Map of the time trial and road race course for the para-cycling-road events of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (Credits – Paris 2024)
Seine-Saint-Denis will be fully associated with the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2024, whether through the Torch Relay, the festivities surrounding the global event, but also and above all the holding tests.
Both during the Olympic Games (July 26 to August 11, 2024) and during the Paralympic Games (August 28 to September 8, 2024), the Department will therefore be at the heart of the event.
Among the events expected on site, the Paralympic Marathon will bring the competitions to a grand close, with a large part of the route announced in the municipalities of La Courneuve, Dugny, Stains, Le Bourget, Drancy, Bobigny, Pantin, Saint-Denis, and Aubervilliers. Para-cycling-on-road competitions will also be organized in this Ile-de-France region bordering Paris.
As explained by the Games Organizing Committee (COJO), this Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Clichy-sous-Bois was chosen as the start and finish town of the aforementioned events which will also run alongside surrounding towns. to the edge of the Department of Seine-et-Marne.
In total, there are nearly 220 para-cyclists – around 140 men and 80 women – and 30 guides. “pilots” who will set off on a 13.9 kilometer course between September 4 and 7, 2024.
The program will also be completed by a so-called familiarization day, scheduled for September 3, during which competitors will be able to explore the streets and arteries exceptionally closed to automobile traffic during the Games, for 7 to 10 hours. of competitions per day.
In detail, the start will be given on Boulevard Émile Zola, opposite the sports complex Henry Barbusse. The para-cyclists will then head east, taking Avenue Jean Moulin and crossing the Bondy Regional Forest to reach Coubron, via a route alternating urbanized and rural portions.
The first reliefs will appear near the town of Courtry (Seine-et-Marne), at kilometer 6.1, with in particular the climb of the Côte de Courtry offering here a first difficulty through a difference in altitude of 1 kilometer to 4.5%, not far from Fort de Vaujours.
By turning around, the para-cyclists will this time cross the Bois de Bernouille, to return to Clichy-sous-Bois and a final part of the race, after having gone along Vaujours and Livry-Gargan via the Strategic Route.
More technical, this part will result in a series of two tight turns “right left” and by bypassing the Place Charlotte Petit roundabout on the Allée du Coteau, finally allowing you to overcome the second difficulty, with the Clichy-sous-Bois hill characterized by a difference in altitude of 850 meters at 4.7%.
The runners will finally finish the course with a straight line of 350 meters on Boulevard Émile Zola.
The route thus revealed was designed by the COJO teams, in coordination with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), to allow the number of laps – and the distance – to be adapted according to the events that are against the watch and the online race, but also categories (H, T, C and B) in which the para-cyclists will be registered, i.e. H for “handbike” (hand cycle) for athletes with spinal cord injuries or amputates of one or both lower limbs; T for “tricyle” for athletes with motor and balance disorders (BMI, hemiplegics); it’s for “cycle” for athletes with amputations or functional loss of the upper and/or lower limbs; and finally B for “blind” for visually impaired athletes practicing tandem cycling with a guide “pilot”.
Route map of the mixed para-cycling road relay event for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (Credits – Paris 2024)
Concerning this time the mixed relay event, a separate route was designed, but still putting Seine-Saint-Denis and Clichy-sous-Bois in the spotlight.
In fact, with a start and finish on Boulevard Émile Zola, the start of the route repeats that dedicated to the time trial and road race events, before continuing with an encirclement of the sports complex. Henry Barbusse.
This 1.8 kilometer route will lead para-cyclists to take Avenue Jean Moulin, then Chemin de la Tourelle, before taking Allée de Gagny to finally join Boulevard Émile Zola.
In terms of the sequence of para-cycling events for the Paris 2024 Games, the men’s and women’s individual time trial in categories H, T, C and B will take place on Wednesday September 4, 2024.
The next day, Thursday September 5, the men’s and women’s road race in category H will take place on the previously exposed course, before the category B and C race, on Friday September 6, and that of categories C and T, on Saturday September 7.
This same Saturday – the day before the closing of the Paralympic Games – will finally be dedicated to the mixed team relay (category H).
As stated by Stéphane Troussel, President of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, regarding the unveiling of the route of the Paralympic Marathon and the routes of the para-cycling-on-road events, all giving pride of place to the territory. departmental:
With Paris 2024 and the French Handisport Federation, we wanted to offer a course that highlights iconic sites in Seine-Saint-Denis with technical and physical courses that will put the best athletes in the world to the test.
Open to the public free of charge, these events will mark the final stages of the Paralympic Games, culminating in the Closing Ceremony at the Stade de France..
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