Liu Wenjun clinched her third Paralympic Games gold medal by winning the women’s 100m T54 final.
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Michael McKillop claimed Ireland’s second gold and third medal in all with victory in the T37 1500m.
Four of those gold medals came in athletics, with Jonnie Peacock repeating his success from London 2012 as he won arguably the blue riband event on the track after asking the partisan crowd for quiet.
Team South Africa had more reason for celebration on Saturday with the news that Charl du Tooit had broken the 100m world record in his category in a time of 11.42 in the heats.
“There was no way I was going to come this far for silver”, Butterworth said. As a two-sport champion yourself, just how impressive an achievement is that?
“This is the best reply to my friends and family because for a long time they have been trying to convince me not to race, to retire, but this gold shows that I was right”.
“You see the repercussions here now”.
Duke immediately set sights on bettering his sixth place in Tokyo in four years’ time.
“I learned so much with athletics, I learned what it means to be an athlete”, she said. “You didn’t even need to use the factoring to win, so I’m properly pleased about that”.
Hermitage’s success was Britain’s first track and field gold of the games.
Dame Sarah Storey was the defending champion but fully expected Cox to beat her.
“Para-triathlon is a great addition to the Paralympics and it brings tears to my eyes that I’ll be able to tell my kids that I won this gold medal”.
“I’m really looking forward to it and I hope to make the history I set out to make”, said the 25-year-old from Leeds, who had a stroke in May 2014.
To Brazil to check in on the Rio Paralympics as China won 13 golds on Day Two of the Games to extend their lead at the top of the medal standings, finishing the day with 20 golds overall.
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Barnsley’s Sue Gilroy lost her semi-final and will compete for Class 4 singles bronze on Monday against Nadia Matic from Serbia.
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China’s first victory of the day comes when powerlifter Hu Dandan prevails in the women’s under 45kg division. The man from Minsk is hotly tipped to continue his dominance of distances ranging from the 100m backstroke to the 400m freestyle, especially after obliterating his opponents to win six golds at the IPC World Championships in Glasgow in 2015.
