He was followed by Mary Fisher, Sophie Pascoe and Nikita Howarth, who are all competing in finals over the next 90 minutes, setting New Zealand up for an interesting day ahead!.
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Silver medallist Liam Malone was back on the track again today in the hopes of a medal repeat in the heats of the Men’s 200m T44.
New Zealand has won the equivalent of 1.55 gold medals per million population, more than three times the rate of Great Britain on 0.43 gold medals per million.
The Kiwi swimmer has comfortably won the women’s 100m butterfly S10 at the Rio Paralympics.
She has now matched New Zealand Paralympian Eve Rimmer’s record of 14 Paralympic medals, however by taking gold today, Pascoe edged ahead of Rimmer in the standings, with a total of nine gold, five silver compared to Rimmer’s eight gold, five silver and one bronze. She’s ranked No 1 in the world in the event.
Howarth, now ranked number 1 in world in the Women’s 50m Butterfly S7, will go into tonight’s final as the fastest qualifier in a time of 35.40.
His time of 2min 23.17sec was too quick for Chinese runner-up Jin Zhipeng and Denmark’s Jonas Larsen. Both Paralympians did not qualify for their respective finals.
The 26-year-old broke his previous world record in a time of 2:23.12.
Howarth took out bronze in the 50m Butterfly S7 final after setting the fastest time in heats.
Nikita Howarth won a bronze in the women’s 50m butterfly S7. She races for gold in the women’s 200m individual medley SM7 final on Wednesday.
Despite winning NZ’s first gold, a second medal in the Women’s 100m T47 final wasn’t to be for Anna Grimaldi who came away fourth place.
But she couldn’t add to the gold she won in the 100m backstroke S11 on Saturday, and she finished sixth in the final with a time of 31.80s, as China’s Li Guizhi won gold with a world record time of 30.73s.
Jacob Phillips ran his second final of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games finishing eighth in the Men’s 200m T35 final in a time of 29.10.
Cameron Leslie in action in his 200m men’s freestyle swimming heat.
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The Sonar sailors opened with an eighth but won the second race to lie second on the points table behind Australia.
