The French céistes did not win a medal at the World Slalom Championships in Augsburg in southern Germany, Marjorie Delassus contenting herself with 6th place while Denis Gargaud was eliminated in the half.
Fourth in the 2020 Olympics last year in Tokyo and 2022 European vice-champion at the end of May, Marjorie Delassus missed her final round with four gates hit (including the first), after setting the second fastest time in the heats and the second half time.
With eight seconds of penalty, she could not join the fight for the title, won by the German Andrea Herzog in front of the Australian Jessica Fox and the British Mallory Franklin, the Olympic trifecta of Tokyo in disorder (Fox , ahead of Franklin and Herzog a year ago).
On the men’s side, Denis Gargaud, Olympic champion in Rio in 2016, hoped to erase the frustration of his non-selection for Tokyo and conquer a second individual world title in Augsburg after 2011, but he was eliminated in half, after a few minutes of hesitation.
Thirteenth with a six-second penalty crossing the line, the Pau-based Marseillais saw one of the penalties removed, allowing him to move up to ninth place and qualify for the final. But after watching the video, the penalty was handed over, confirmed after France’s appeal, synonymous with final elimination for Gargaud.
Benefiting in spite of himself from the elimination of Gargaud, the young Mewem Debliquy (17) finished in 6th place, three and a half seconds behind the German Sideris Tasiadis, crowned at home ahead of the Slovak Alexander Slafkovsky and another German, Franz Anthony.
The last two events, women’s and men’s extreme kayaking, which will enter the Olympic program in Paris in two years, take place on Sunday in the middle of the afternoon.