the Department organizes multiple events for the general public around Sport and the Olympic Games to promote the territory. Among them, several sports initiation villages, the Côte-d'Or Youth Games and of course the passage of the Flame in 2024!
"The Games were a dream, but now they have become a goal! Objective reached for Tokyo, and to be reached for Paris, with the selections which will be spread out between May 2023 and June 2024. I am training intensely for that, in Dijon but also during but also during training courses, in particular in Monte Gordo in Portugal. The Olympic Games are the biggest multi-sport event in the world event in the world, the Holy Grail for all athletes! My wish is that the Olympic days planned in Côte- d'Or allow to promote the sport to promote sport, to make young people practice a little too focused on their screens!
"These will be my third Olympic Games, but these will be at home, in France ! I see them as an apotheosis in my sporting career! Especially since my goal is clear: gold! that my objective is clear: gold! These Games are an opportunity to remind people that sport is a vector of inclusion, that we can succeed and surpass ourselves even in a situation of disability. To show also that we can succeed at the highest level, here in Côte-d'Or. And finally, to make young people want young people to take up sport.
« Léa Ferney qualified for the Paralympic 2024 Paralympic Games, this is a huge honor for our club. She is a local girl, she grew up in the grown up in the club. She herself is on a small cloud: to participate in the Olympics in Paris, after having won the gold medal at the world championships championships in Granada in November, is exceptional - and that makes her the the favorite. The time has come to communicate as much as possible about the the Games and to promote our clubs and our clubs and athletes, whether they are able-bodied or disabled".
President of Dijon Table Tennis
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Discipline: ATHLETICS
Club: DUC Athletics
This French athlete, a 1,500-meter specialist, has won the French track and field championships 3 times (2018, 2019 and 2020) and finished second in the 1,500-meter race in 2022. He was also crowned French champion of the short cross in 2022 and vice-champion of France in 2019 and 2021.
Discipline: RUGBY FAUTEUIL
Club: Quad Rugby Black Chairs
Formerly an able-bodied rugby player and victim of an accident during a match in 2009, Corentin LE GUEN is today one of the ambassadors of wheelchair rugby in France. He has a real chance to participate in the 2024 Paralympic Games! He has been selected for the French team 15 times, including 4 times in the European Championship and a victory in 2022 where France won gold.
Discipline: RUGBY FAUTEUIL
Club: Quad Rugby Black Chairs
Affected by a paralysis at mid-thigh since birth as well as a scoliosis and a malformation of the fingers, Sébastien VERDIN has a great chance to participate in the 2024 Paralympic Games! He first went through athletics where he reached the level of the French youth team, then he tried wheelchair basketball as a leisure activity and very quickly, he joined the French hopeful team where he stayed for 2 years. He started wheelchair rugby in 2017, thanks to the advice of Corentin Le Guen and he joined the French team very quickly. He will play his first world championships in 2018 in Sydney and will be gold medalist in 2022 at the European Championships.
Discipline: PARA TABLE TENNIS
Club: Dijon Table Tennis
Léa FERNEY took part in her first Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. Today, she has a real chance of taking part in the 2024 Paralympics. At just 17, she was the first French representative of adapted sport to compete in a Paralympic final, where she will be crowned Paralympic vice-champion.
Discipline: WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Club: Alliance Dijon Gym 21
Originally from Pontailler-sur-Saône and a member of a Dijon club, Célia SERBER is currently training at Insep. She has a serious chance of taking part in the 2024 Olympic Games!
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Discipline: SWIMMING (Triathlon)
Club: Beaune Triathlon
This French professional triathlete, born in Chalon-sur-Saône and evolving in Beaune, has won the Ironman 70.3 triathlon (in 2015, 2016, and 2017) and Ironman (in 2022).
In early June 2023, he wins another European Ironman title in Hamburg.
Tom Schlegel for Hoka
Tom Schlegel for Hoka
Tom Schlegel for Hoka
Discipline: HALTEROPHILIA
Club: Weightlifting Dijon Bourgogne 21
In May 2022, Vicky GRAILLOT won the bronze medal at the European Weightlifting Championships. She has a real chance to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games!
Discipline: ROLLER
Club: AM Sports
At only 18 years old, this Dijon native has already won numerous awards in 2021 and 2022. In 2022, he won four European medals in the junior category: three in silver (points race and American track, elimination) and one in gold (points race on the road). He also received the award for best young athlete by the Bien Public.
Discipline: JUDO
Club: Alliance Judo Besançon-Dijon 21-25
Judo bronze medalist at the Deaflympics in Brazil in 2022, Arthur REPIQUET has a possible chance to participate in the 2024 Paralympics.
Discipline: BASKET
Club: JDA Basket
This Côte d'Orien by birth, arrived at the JDA training center in 2016, has climbed the ladder gradually. He got his first professional contract with the JDA Dijon, his training club in 2020. Member of the French U20 team, Robin intends to continue to play in Betclic Elite, Basketball Champions League and defend the colors of JDA Dijon.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: JDA Handball
This emblematic physical trainer of the Blues is back in business since 2016 with happiness and success, alongside his friend Olivier Krumbholz. In 2021, won the Grail in Tokyo with the gold medal of the French team. This Dijon native is also the physical trainer of the JDA Dijon.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: JDA Handball
Originally from the North Department, Claire is a handball player playing at the left back position at JDA Dijon Handball since 2020. She has been selected for the French national team several times since 2019.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: JDA Handball
Arrived at 15 years old in the ranks of Dijon, this handball player evolving in the back position, signed for two more seasons at the JDA Handball in 2022.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: JDA Handball
Pure product of the Dijon training, Nina Dury (19 years old) is having a promising season under the orders of Christophe Mazel. In the training center since 2020, the native of Dijon is linked with the JDA Bourgogne Dijon Handball until 2024.
Discipline: CYCLING
Club: La Pédale Semuroise
This young 17 year old cyclist is the face of the film "Côte-d'Or Terre de Jeux". Cycle from father to son, this child of the Côte-d'Or is the son of David De Vecchi, director of the Côte-d'Or Classic Juniors.
Discipline: SWIMMING
Club: Formerly Alliance Dijon Natation
Formerly an able-bodied high-level swimmer, Charles ROZOY became Paralympic Champion in London in 2012, following a motorcycle accident in July 2008.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: DMH
Since his beginnings, Marc Poletti has played for Dijon Métropole Handball: he is an accomplished Côte-d'Orien sportsman who will finish his career in Dijon.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: DMH
At 40 years old, the goalkeeper of Dijon Métropole handball (DMH) would like to go up to the StarLigue (1st division) with his team next season. He has been at DMH since 2016.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: DMH
Navigating between the right wing and the back line, Mathis Jaffiol is a precious element of the Dijon Métropole handball (DMH), at the age of 20.
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: DMH
The 23-year-old left winger, he signed his first professional contract in Dijon in 2021. He follows in the footsteps of his older brother, Lilian, trained in the Côte d'Or and now playing in Pontault-Combault.
Discipline: BREAKDANCE
Club: Resid'danse figure 2 style
The Chenevelière is vice-champion of France of breakdance. Godmother of the Village Côte-d'Or Terre de Jeux in Is-sur-Tille, Marlène SPAHR has chances to participate in the Olympic Games 2024! In 2018, breakdancing made its appearance in the program of the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. With the success met by the discipline, this discipline will be in the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, as an additional sport along with surfing, skateboarding and climbing.
Discipline: PARA TENNIS
Club: Resid'danse figure 2 style
Sponsor of the Village Côte-d'Or Terre de Jeux in Is-sur-Tille, Romain SAINT-LOUIS has a real chance of participating in the 2024 Olympic Games! This inhabitant of Til-Châtel is one of the best French wheelchair tennis players.
Discipline: KARATE
Club: AKDC Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur
At 20 years old, Clémence PEA, won the gold medal in Karate kumite at the World University Games in the 68 kg category. In 2023, she became French senior champion. She is a physiotherapy student at the University of Burgundy.
Discipline: KARATE
Club: AKDC Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur
Yanis started karate at the age of 4, in the Dijon area in Quetigny. He then evolved in Saint-Apollinaire before joining the AKDC club in 2012. He finished 3rd at the European Championships in 2019.
Discipline: KARATE
Club: Formerly FKC Semurois
Born in Semur-en-Auxois, Alizée AGIER has been playing in a club in Sarcelles since last year. Her father is the President of the Karate club in Semur where she has evolved for a long time.
Discipline : SPORT AUTOMOBILE
Club : ASAC Bourgogne
This young car driver, originally from the Côte-d'Or, has an upward trajectory. Although he trains a lot in the United States, Charles MILESI is still a member of a Côte-d'Orien club.
Discipline: TRIATHLON
Club: Auxonne Triathlon
Adeline MUNAROLO is from Dijon and is a member of the Auxonne club. She regularly participates in Ironman races, sometimes of the extreme variety. She often finishes first in France in her races.
Discipline: JUDO
Club: Formerly Alliance Dijon Judo 21
Born in Dijon, Cyrille MARET won the bronze medal in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. He participated in several world championships and won 3 team silver medals: in Budapest in 2021, in Tokyo in 2019, and in Baku in 2018.
Discipline: SPORTS SHOOTING
Club: Tir Sportif Dijon-Norge
A high-level athlete, member of the French national team, and a member of the Dijon-Norges Shooting School, he practices Olympic skeet, a shooting discipline with trays. It is one of the 15 shooting events at the Olympic Games. The discipline is governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Living in Is-sur-Tille, he has participated in several national and international competitions including the World Championships in October 2022.
Discipline: ADVENTURE
Paraplegic adventurer, resident of Sainte-Marie-sur-Ouche, she takes on challenges in an electric wheelchair (Massif Central, Morvan (330 km)...)
Discipline: SWIMMING
Club: SCO Dijon
Discipline: BASKET FAUTEUIL
Club: JDA BASKET FAUTEUIL
Member of the JDA Wheelchair Basketball, selected in the French team
Discipline: GRAVEL and mountain biking
Club: SCO Dijon
Discipline: HANDBALL
Club: Saint-Raphaël Var Handball
54 CDJs (Junior Departmental Advisors) as sports ambassadors in the Côte-d'Or high schools.
