Gilles de la Bourdonnaye
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Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dakar, Senegal | 27 January 1973|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Micha Zakova-de la Bourdonnaye | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Para table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Amputation of right arm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | C10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Grégory Rosec | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gilles de la Bourdonnaye (born 27 January 1973)[1] is a French para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a triple Paralympic champion, triple World champion and thirteen time European champion.[2] His right arm was amputated when he was three years old after an elevator accident.[3]
Sporting career
[edit]He started competing internationally at the 1990 World Para Table Tennis Championships and retired in the 2008 Summer Paralympics. de la Bourdonnaye came out of retirement eleven years later, aged 46, when he participated at the 2019 European Championships in Helsingborg where he won his first medal since 2008 when he won a silver medal in the teams events.[4]
He has won team event titles with numerous other competitors including Philippe Roine, Jeremy Rousseau and Matéo Bohéas.[5]
Return to sport
[edit]de la Bourdonnaye made his decision to come out of retirement and make a bid to compete in his sixth Paralympic Games by hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athens 2004 Paralympic Games - Table Tennis - Official Results Book". ipc-services.org. International Paralympic Committee. 19 September 2004.
- ^ "Gilles de la Bourdonnaye - IPTTF Profile". International Para Table Tennis Federation. 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Avec un seul bras, Gilles de la Bourdonnaye est un des 100 meilleurs pongistes francais". Le Monde (in French). 27 October 2000.
- ^ "Helsingborg 2019: Gilles de la Bourdonnaye ready for table tennis return". International Paralympic Committee. 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Tennis de table: Gilles de la Bourdonnaye, retour reussi". le10sport.com (in French). 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Retour dore pour Gilles de la Bourdonnaye". HandiSport (in French). 16 May 2019.
External links
[edit]- Gilles de la Bourdonnaye at ITTF Para Table Tennis
- Gilles de la Bourdonnaye at the International Paralympic Committee
- Gilles de la Bourdonnaye at Équipe de France (in French)
- Gilles de la Bourdonnaye at France Paralympique (in French)
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Nantes
- Paralympic table tennis players for France
- Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- French amputees
- French male table tennis players
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Paralympic gold medalists for France
- Paralympic silver medalists for France
- Paralympic bronze medalists for France
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- 20th-century French sportspeople
- 21st-century French sportspeople
- French table tennis biography stubs