Dimitri Coutya wins three golds at European Championships
Wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya, who trains in Bath, won three gold medals at the European Championships, the first qualifying event for the 2028 Paralympics.
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Wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya has returned from the European Championships with three gold medals. He trains in Bath, and the event was the first qualifying competition for the 2028 Paralympics, where he hopes to defend his two gold medals.
Coutya won one of his three medals on his 29th birthday. His preparation for the championships was disrupted by injury and illness, and he said his build-up was not ideal.
'Had a bit of a not not the most ideal run up to these kind of major championships hadn't trained quite the way I necessarily would have done due to injury due to illness,' he said.
He added that there were areas he would like to have prepared harder for, but he was still pleased with the results.
'Looking at the week there are there are definitely things that I would have liked to have hit a little bit harder in terms of you know preparation but at the end of the day I can't be ungrateful with with with the results that I got,' he said.
The European Championships were the opening event in the qualifying cycle for the 2028 Paralympics. Coutya's three gold medals give him a major result at the start of that cycle, while his stated aim is to defend the two Paralympic gold medals he already holds.
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| Coutya won one of his European Championship medals on his 29th birthday. | |
| Dimitri Coutya won three gold medals at the European Championship. | |
| The European Championship was the first qualifying event for the 2028 Paralympics, where Coutya aims to defend two gold medals. | |
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BBC ONE West treated the item as a brief, celebratory local sports update. It led on Coutya's Bath training base, his three gold medals and the fact that he won one on his 29th birthday. It also included his own comments about injury and illness disrupting his preparation, but did not widen out to the championship event, other athletes or the wider wheelchair fencing scene.
- “He's returned from the European Championship with not one not two but three gold medals.”
- “It was the first qualifying event for the 2028 Paralympics where he's hoping to defend his two gold medals.”
- “Dimitri won one of his medals this time round on his 29th birthday.”
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