Four of those gold medals came in athletics, with Peacock repeating his success from London 2012 when he won arguably the blue riband event on the track after asking the partisan crowd for quiet.
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Despite posting the fastest time to qualify for Friday’s final, Peacock had played second fiddle to American Jarryd Wallace for much of the season ahead of the Paralympics and arrived in Rio playing catch-up.
Wallace finished fifth, while Germany’s Felix Streng, who was also considered a threat to Peacock’s title defence, crossed the line in third.
There was a cathartic success for Jody Cundy in the C4/C5 one-kilometre time-trial, four years after the expletive-laden tantrum which changed perceptions of Paralympians.
“I was worrying so much in warm-up and call room”.
The 100m race was always going to be the most hard of the seven races in Rio, McFadden admits.
Hahn completed the set of major championship titles.
Most notably, Sarah Storey raced her way into the history books as she claimed her 12th gold medal to confirm her status as the most successful British female Paralympian of all time.
Kadeena Cox claimed bronze behind Hahn and on Saturday will bid for gold on the cycling track.
Should Cox win a medal at the velodrome she will become the first Briton since Isobel Barr in 1988 to win Paralympic medals in two sports at the same Games.
The 26-year-old Scot, who competes alongside guide Chris Clarke, told BBC Sport: “I’m really happy but the job is not done yet”.
Robinson, who was inspired by Ellie Simmonds, now her team-mate, triumphed in 35.58 seconds, a Paralympic record. Robinson, like Ellie Simmonds, has achondroplasia.
“It wasn’t my ideal race, but it was the race that took me to my Paralympic gold”.
“It’s so weird, it’s not sunk in yet”, Robinson said. “I’ve been told if it rains the whole city comes to a stop, so if that’s the case they need to open the lanes up because that’s ridiculously unfair to all the athletes”.
“I came to this meet for experience, so to win the gold medal, oh my days”. The athletes are seen as two of the biggest stars in the Paralympic sporting world and performed on a day International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven promised “unbelievable action”.
ParalympicsGB’s medal tally moved to 15 with silver in the T44 long jump for Stef Reid and bronze medals for Gemma Prescott in the F32 club throw and powerlifter Zoe Newson, while Ireland’s first medal was a gold for Jason Smyth – his third in succession – in the T13 100 metres on the athletics track.
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Louis Rolfe took bronze in the men’s C2 3km individual pursuit as Britain won a seventh cycling medal.
