2023-09-17 22:12:10
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The 50th world pétanque championships ended on Sunday September 17, 2023 in Cotonou at Place de l’Amazone with a very good mention for Benin in terms of the organization of this competition. If on a sporting level the prowess of the Thais Sarawut Sriboonpeng, Ratchata Khamdee, Supan Thongphoo, Thanawan Toosewha, Nantawan Fuangsanit and Sunitra Phuangyoo – World Champions Triplets (men), head-to-head (men) and Doublette (women) – are saluted just like those of the French Christophe Sarrio and Dylan Rocher – world champions Doublette (men) and precision shooting (man) -, Beninese Laïma Sambo and Marcel Gbetable – World champions in Mixed Doubles, without forgetting the Tunisian Mouna Beji – head-to-head (female) -, the quality of the organization does not fail to receive laurels. Indeed, at the end of the last match (men’s triplet final won 13-10 by Thailand ahead of Spain, lhe President of the international federation of pétanque and Provençal game, Claude Azema, congratulated Benin for having met the challenge. Already stunned at the start by the quality of the infrastructure offered by Benin for the progress of the matches, he was still very satisfied with the organization. According to him, the Cotonou meeting was “extraordinary, magnificently organized and very festive”. “It’s a championship that will go down in history because the organization was in a site where there was nothing planned but which was built from scratch with detail, with fantastic quality,” said he underlined before thanking the enthusiasm that was observed around the competition during the 9 days. “Even the pitches withstood the storms that arrived, the team of sublime volunteers managed to dry the pitches and put them in good condition. We’ve never seen what we see there. 5000 seats in the stands outside: a whole federation behind us, the government, the minister, everyone was behind pétanque in Benin. For us, it is something extraordinary,” he said at the end of these 50th championships where Benin, in addition to its title of world champion in mixed doubles, was ranked vice-champion in men’s doubles. beaten by France and vice-champion of the Nations Cup, beaten by Ivory Coast.
THE GOLD MEDAL TABLE
A) Head-to-head Men
THAILAND
B) Head-to-head Women
TUNISIA
C) Women’s Doubles
THAILAND
D) Men’s Doubles
FRANCE
E) Mixed Doubles
BENIGN
F) Men’s Triplets
THAILAND
G) Precision shooting
FRANCE
H) Nations Cup
IVORY COAST
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