France ends the day in style with a 5th gold medal

The French won a first gold medal in xare this Friday. Over the course of the day, they and also imposed themselves in individual and team bare hands in trinquet, in leather paleta in trinquet and women’s rubber paleta in trinquet. After four days of competition, this Friday we got to the heart of the matter with these finals of the Biarritz Pelota World Championship
. The French delegation has had complicated days since the start of the World Cup but, this Friday, it worked to restore its image. Games, played at Hasparren (at the Berria trinquet) and at Bayonne (at the Modern trinquet), to follow listening to France Bleu Pays Basque
and on video (see below) with France 3 NoA.

The essential

• The Larralde-Ducassou pair won over the Spaniards Maiz-Luquín in the team barehanded final this Friday evening
• Earlier in the day, France had won the title of world champion in xare, in individual bare hands in trinquet, in leather paleta in trinquet and in women’s rubber paleta in trinquet
• The day opened with three bronze medals for France in paleta gum trinquet and fronton 30 meters (see the summary table of medals at the bottom of this article)

Video replay

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Friday’s games and results

• Final bare hand per team (Berria to Hasparren): the French win over Spain
• Finals xare (live from the Berria trinquet in Hasparren): France wins gold against Spain
• Finals bare hands face to face (Berria trinquet to Hasparren): Ducassou retains the gold medal for France after Spain forfeits
• Finals paleta eraser (Modern trinquet in Bayonne)

Men – Argentina win over Spain

Women – The tricolor win against Argentina

• Final of leather slipper at the Modern trinquet in Bayonne: the French win the supreme title against the Argentinians
• The finals of frontenis men and women on the wall to the left of Fal in Biarritz: victory for Mexico in the women’s category and Spain in the men’s category

Gold for France in bare hands by team

For France, the pair Larralde Ducassou was opposed to the Spaniards Maiz-Luquín in the unarmed final by team this Friday evening. In a Berria trinquet full as an egg, the Blues won with a score of 15-11, 15-4 and thus retained their title of world champion in this category.

The Itsasuar Battitta Ducassou who, at the end of this day, won two gold medals with bare hands. But who rather retained the exceptional atmosphere of the Berria trinquet in Hasparren at the end of the final of bare hand head to head. While the public is usually divided between Larralde and Ducassou in the parties which regularly oppose them in this forum, this Friday evening, “everyone was there for us, and it feels good!”.

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Same feeling on the side of Peio Larralde the sacred Hazpandar on his land in bare hands by team alongside Ducassou.

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Paleta gum, the supremacy of French women confirmed

In paleta gum in trinquet, the pair of French women, Maritxu Housset and Aizkoa Iturriño won in straight sets, 15-8, 15-6. Facing Argentina, the tricolor thus retain their title at the Modern trinquet in Bayonne. On the men’s side, the Argentinians won over the Spaniards in two sets, 15-8 and 15-3.

Paleta leather: the French dominate the Argentines and win the gold

At the Modern trinquet in Bayonne, the French pair Denis Larretche and Valentin Cambos was not the favorite, she nevertheless imposed herself at the Modern trinquet in Bayonne against Argentina in a leather paleta. They win the title of world champion with the score of 15-11, 15-2.

Individual bare hand: French gold medal and Spanish tears

At the Berria d’Hasparren trinquet, it was a highly anticipated meeting and the French gold medal was won, but the game was disappointing to say the least. In the 1×1 bare-handed final between the Frenchman, defending champion, Battitta Ducassou and the Spanish Luis Sanchez, the very close first set was awarded to Ducassou with a score of 15 to 14. And during the second set, the game had to be interrupted after an injury to Sanchez who was leading 2-1. After a few minutes of interruption, in tears, the Spaniard forfeited and Ducassou was thus able to keep the title of world champion. A title won under these conditions, what effect does it have? “It’s no less fun but it’s a different flavor__. The pleasure, we will appreciate it later by looking at what has been accomplished, the work it has required” said Battitta Ducassou after the game.

Before this meeting, Ducassou told us his feelings about this Mondial de pelota.
“We have to be there” he said. Check out his interview in this video.

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Xare final: first gold medal for France

In xare, the French Olivier Laberdesque (licensed at the Section paloise) and Bruno Driolet (licensed at club Hardoytarrak, Anglet) won the first leg 15-11 and the second 15-7 in a top-flight game against the Spaniards Lopetegui and Moncada.

The French substitutes were Oihan Borteyrou (Noizbait, Hasparren) and Eneko de Paredes (Hardoytarrak, Anglet). Oihan Borteyrou who is a Basque pelota educator and who deciphered for France Bleu Pays Basque the different pelota specialties
that we find in the Mondial for a week. Listen to his explanation below:

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Three bronze medals for France in gum puck

In paleta eraser
at the trinquet Modern of Bayonne, the French Kevin Pucheux and Patxi Guilenteguy clinched bronze on Friday morning 15-6, 15-2 against Mexico.

In a feminine rubber paleta 30m pedimentthe French Maialen Guilenteguy defeated Argentina in three sets 13-15, 15-9, 10-6. At men’s, Theo Pucheux also won bronze with a score of 15-14, 15-9 against Argentina.

French people knocked out on Thursday

This day of Friday is all the more important as the day of Thursday was particularly cruel for the French delegation. The French selection lost ten of its 15 semi-finals on Thursday at the Mondial de Pelota. Listen to the summary of this day in the “Journal de la pelota” of France Bleu Pays Basque presented by Bixente Vrignon.

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World Cup medals, nation by nation

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