Denis Gargaud, 2016 Olympic champion in canoe slalom, was not selected for the French team at the end of the national selections and will therefore not be able to claim qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the French Federation announced on Wednesday. canoe-kayak (FFCK).
“This selection follows the national identification time organized in Vaires-sur-Marne last week, the final stage of the selection process for the France team”, explained the FFCK in a press release.
In the list of eleven athletes “selected to participate in the first international block which includes three World Cups in May”, there is therefore no Gargaud, 35, who, like “several athletes who are members of the French team in 2022, ( a) did not meet the sporting expectations expected to join the France 2023 team”. In addition to his Olympic title in 2016 in C1 (single-seater canoe), Gargaud was world champion in the category in 2011 and European champion in 2021. He had failed to qualify for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
In canoeing, Lucas Roisin, Nicolas Gestin and Jules Bernardet were selected for the men, Angèle Hug, Lucie Prioux, Marjorie Delassus, 4th in the Tokyo Olympics in C1 and also selected for the kayak, for the women. In kayak, are summoned Benjamin Renia, Boris Neveu, double world champion of K1 (2014, 2021) and bronze medalist of the last Worlds in 2022, and Titouan Castryck in men, and in women in addition to Marjorie Delassus, Camille Prigent and Emma Vuitton.
These eleven selected should be aligned at the European Games in Krakow, Poland (June 21-July 2), and at the 2023 World Championships in Lee Valley, Great Britain (September 19-24). “The team will be confirmed following the first block of international competitions,” said the FFCK.
